Posts Tagged ‘life insurance policies’

Back to Business: Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

New York Times

By: Jenny Anderson

Wall Street bankers plan to buy life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash and package hundreds or thousands of them together into bonds.

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Selling Life Insurance

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Boston Globe

By: Jill Boynton

When times are tough people often look to the cash value in their life insurance policies as a source of cash. In addition to borrowing the cash value, one strategy that is sometimes recommended is to sell your life insurance policy to a third party. You would get more than the cash value but not as much as the death benefit.

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