Trading Desk

Trading Desk is revolutionizing the way qualified, individual investors can access the fast-growing Life Settlement market.  Previously mainly available to institutional investors, direct investment in individual policies offers the opportunity to earn potentially higher returns than is possible through a Life Settlement fund structure.

Trading Desk offers individual investors attractive returns, a fixed payout and access to a low risk, low volatility investment.  Thanks to our buying expertise Trading Desk can take advantage of discounts in the market place to make policies available which deliver 10% absolute return per annum1. With the possibility of even higher returns if policies mature early.2

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What is a life settlement?
A Life Settlement is the term given to the sale of an unwanted or unneeded life insurance policy to a third party – usually a financial institution. The life insurance policyholder is paid a cash lump sum in exchange for transferring ownership of the policy to a third party, who pays all remaining premiums and then receives the life insurance benefit when the policy matures.

Access a fast-growing institutional investment
Institutional investors have quickly caught on to the great potential of Life Settlements, especially in the face of the recent, unprecedented market turbulence.

The benefits offered by Life Settlements have resulted in rapid expansion and made Life Settlements one of the fastest growing investment vehicles among institutional investors in the US & Europe. In an October 2008 report, Conning Research estimated about $12 billion in face amount of Life Settlements changed hands in 2007, up from $6.1 billion in 2006. By 2012, Conning estimated that figure will approach $21 billion.

In addition, estimates from Bernstein Research in March 2005 suggested that the Life Settlement business could exceed $160 billion by 2030, as shown by the chart below (Dimensioning the Size of the Life Settlement Opportunity).

Research from December 2008 by Managing Partners Limited, an investment firm specializing in alternative asset classes, found that investment in Life Settlement funds by institutions and pension funds rose from $303 million to $466.1million for the 12-month period ending November 2008, while the amounts from retail investors grew from $101.3 million to $155.3 million for the same period.



Now Trading Desk is one of the first platforms to provide investors with the opportunity to invest in whole individual policies.