Article: LICA Announces Life Carrier Study of the Secondary Market for Life Insurance is Seriously Flawed.

The Study Misleads the Market

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- An insurer funded study of the secondary market for life insurance used flawed data, contained serious actuarial errors, and ignored the economic benefits of life settlements, two prominent economists have concluded in a report released today, the Life Insurance Consumers Alliance (LICA) announced.

The new report, which reviews the methods and conclusions of a Deloitte Consulting-University of Connecticut Actuarial Center report about the secondary market, is authored by Hal J. Singer, President of Criterion Economics LLC, and co-author of a groundbreaking study on the secondary market ...

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