Mean vs. Median — The Importance of Using the Mean
Recently, an asset manager asked me why the mean and median life expectancy (LE) figures in life expectancy reports seemed to have widened in recent years. The fact is we […]
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Understanding Mortality Improvement
There are a number of fallacies about how micro-longevity underwriting works that seem to pervade the marketplace. One that I hear far too often goes something like this: “Life settlements […]
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How Health Care Providers Handle HIPAA and Harm Consumers
When a life settlement is created through the regulated sale of an unwanted or unneeded life insurance policy by the policy owner to a life settlement provider (i.e., the buyer […]
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Life Expectancy Underwriting and Life Expectancy Calculators are NOT the Same Thing Redux
There continue to be those in the life settlement marketplace who promote online calculators as a quick, free means of determining life expectancy. As we’ve said before, life settlement calculators […]
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