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.
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.