By Melana Yanos

BusinessWeek hit the newsstands last July 30 with a cover image of the Grim Reaper behind the headline: “Death Bonds: Inside Wall Street’s most macabre investment scheme yet.” In the opening paragraph of the article, author Matthew Goldstein gibes about the gathering of financial bigwigs in new York to talk about Life Settlements: “With all the happy banter, you wouldn’t have known that they were there to learn about new and imaginative ways to profit from people dying.”

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By Zohar Elhanani

It’s becoming increasingly mainstream. The policies purchased are even being packaged into one of Wall Streets new investment products. And it can benefit you and your clients. But for most life insurance agents, the questions surrounding life settlements are anything but settled.

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