Life Settlements: Valuation and Performance Reporting for an Emerging Asset Class
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The life settlements industry is an emerging asset class which, like others before it , is in the early stages of developing best industry practices specific to its unique characterstics. Best practices are needed for all aspects of a life settlement transaction: from initiation to valuation/pricing, to transfer of ownership to an investor, to the measurement and reporting of performance, including providing appropriate disclosures.
Authors: Darwin M. Bayston, CFA, AVS Underwriting LLC, Douglas R. Lempereur, CFA, CIPM, Franklin Templeton and Anthony Pecore, Franklin Advisers, Inc.