Life Markets: Trading Mortality and Longevity Risk with Life Settlements and Linked Securities

Praise for Life Markets

"This is certainly not a coffee table book, but an extremely comprehensive and in-depth study of the problems associated with longevity and an aging population and how individuals and financial institutions can benefit from trading in life settlements and linked securities."
—Dr. Marc Faber, Editor, Gloom, Boom & Doom Report

" The team's insights are keen and their approach crisp; this is useful information for professionals in the field."
—Steve Acunto, Editor, Insurance Advocate magazine

"Vishaal Bhuyan has assembled leading practitioners and academics in the longevity/mortality space to analyze in depth the intricacies of investing in life settlements. In a rapidly changing marketplace that still remains transparency-challenged, Vishaal and his coauthors provide an indispensable tool to both the novice and the experienced investor thus shifting the risk/reward balance of life settlements investing."
—Robin Willi, Head of Life Settlements, BlueCrest Capital Management

Coauthors include Micah Bloomfield, Boris Ziser, and Joseph Selvidio of Stroock & Stroock &Lavan; David Blake and Debbie Harrison of the Pensions Institute; James Cavoli of Life Settlement Insights; Mike Fasano of Fasano Associates; Congressman George Keiser; Joseph Mason of the Wharton School; Emannuel Modu of A.M. Best; Antony Mott of ICAP Capital Markets; Nemo Perera of Risk Capital Partners; Hal Singer of Criterion Economics; Charles A. Stone and Anne Zissu of The-Financier.com; and Matthew Browndorf and Jonathan Sadowsky of Browndorf PEM