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Brad Eden moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Brad Eden, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GPL93 (talk) 21:16, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Brad Eden (February 11)

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February 2020

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Your draft article, Draft:Real Assets

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Industry Challenges

Hello, Jhickey94. The Industry challenges section has been removed from Life settlement. Please refer to the article's talk page for more information. Recent editing suggests a potentially undisclosed conflict of interest, so I have to ask, are you in any way affiliated with a life or viatical settlement company, or have you been paid by anyone for your editing? Thank you, Heartmusic678 (talk) 18:33, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

This is literally the OPPOSITE of promotion. Yes - I work in the industry - which is why I am knowledgeable. Below is what this individual keeps deleting. I don't understand why someone would want to remove this information. This industry is marred by scandal, and it's important to address it. These were HUGE scandals that landed on the front page of major publications like WSJ.

I am not getting paid for this. Now, I would put the question back on the person asking - as it is VERY weird they pushing this agenda of redacting important information. Are you getting paid? Why are you so focused on the suppression of information?

• Heartmusic678, thank you for your note on the talk page. Jhickey, if you make one more such accusation, a personal attack that displays such bad faith, I will block you. You may seek the talk page where you can argue for the content--but there also, you must refrain from personal attacks. Drmies (talk) 14:07, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Drmies. I apologize if my tone was harsh. However, if I am asked if I have a conflict of interest, is it not fair to ask back the same question? I will say, the writer is extremely knowledgeable about the esoteric industry - which is what caught my attention. People do not randomly know details about this industry. Also, the deletions were just weird. For example, why delete info about a $2B scandal (Life Partners) which got headlines on the WSJ for years?
    • Jhickey, thanks, but I'm not the one you attacked. Heartmusic provided an explanation--I assume you're talking about this edit? They addressed that on the talk page, and I'll just note that only the first paragraph had a citation; subsequent paragraphs did not have secondary sourcing, there were numbers for non-existing footnotes, the term STOLI is thrown in as if the audience would know, etc. Again, talk page please. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 14:28, 23 September 2021 (UTC)
      • JHickey94. Thanks for the feedback. Is this the right page to discuss? How would you edit this? I just noticed the legacy footnotes had gotten deleted in the back and forth editing.0 Should I go back and add the original footnotes or just drop this?
        • The talk page of the article. Please sign your posts, and please address the user who posted there. No, there were no footnotes, just numbers. Drmies (talk) 15:18, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

While the life settlement industry has dramatically cleaned up, there were multiple controversies in the early days. Most notably was the bankruptcy of Life Partners in 2015. Life Partners effectively bought policies off a long life expectancy and re-sold fractional shares to individual retail investors, using a much shorter internally generated life expectancy to justify the significant mark-up.[11] As a result, over 80% of the insured lived past the life expectancy - generating shareholder lawsuits and regulator attention - especially since they were selling to retail investors.[12] However, they were not the only fraudulent life settlement fund. another notable fraudulent fund was A&O Life Policies, which defrauded life settlement investors of over $100M.[20]

The second major scandal was STOLI. STOLI is any act, practice, or arrangement, at or prior to policy issuance, to initiate or facilitate the issuance of a life insurance policy for the intended benefit of a person who, at the time of policy origination, does not have an insurable interest in the life of the insured under the laws of the applicable state.[13] This includes an arrangement or other agreement to transfer the ownership of the policy or the policy benefits to another person.[13] The main characteristic of a STOLI arrangement is that insurance is purchased as an investment vehicle, rather than to provide for the insured's beneficiaries.[14] STOLI arrangements also may be called "zero premium life insurance", "no cost to the insured plans", "new issue life settlements", "high-net-worth settlements", or "non-recourse premium finance transactions".[14]

Prior to 2008, STOLI was popular because investor demand dramatically exceeded supply, and this was a way to manufacture product (albeit illegal) to meet demand. In many ways, it was effectively a victimless crime because everybody benefited in the short term. The investor got to deploy capital, the insured/policy owner made money from selling the policy, the insurance agent got a commission, and the insurance company grew their business. However, this all collapsed in 2008 when funding dried up and regulators took a closer look at the practice. Additionally, STOLI policies turned out to be poor investments, so long-term investor demand dried up.

The third major challenge has been self-dealing by life settlement providers and brokers - to the detriment of policy owners and investors. Most notably, Coventry was fined $12M by the state of New York for deceptive business practices.[15] Coventry also settled a lawsuit with AIG (a large life settlement investor at the time), where Coventry would use multiple shell companies to disguise policy ownership when reselling to AIG to obtain a higher profit.[16] However, these activities are not just limited to Coventry, as other life settlement brokers and providers have engaged in similar activity, albeit on a much smaller scale.Although it has dramatically improved, the life settlement industry faced challenges early on. One challenge is aggressive and deceptive marketing motivated by high sales commissions for providers and brokers. As the market for policies grew more competitive, these intermediaries gained the potential to earn as much as 30 percent of the sale price of a life settlement. This incentivized intermediaries to push life settlement sales in the secondary market, despite policyholders' level of interest in selling, surrendering or lapsing their policies.[21]

In addition, the industry has struggled with false life expectancy evaluations, poor premium reserves that increase investor costs, false promises of high profits with low risk, clean-sheeting (not disclosing a life-threatening illness in a policy application), dirty-sheeting (falsely claiming a life-threatening illness in a policy application).

Life settlement regulations have been adopted across the Unites States to prevent fraud and promote fair practices. As of 2010, 44 U.S. states adopted a form of the model uniform law developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Federal level regulations were developed under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [21]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Heartmusic678 (talk) 10:28, 23 September 2021 (UTC)

This is literally the OPPOSITE of promotion. Yes - I work in the industry - which is why I am knowledgeable. Below is what this individual keeps deleting. I don't understand why someone would want to remove this information. This industry is marred by scandal, and it's important to address it. These were HUGE scandals that landed on the front page of major publications like WSJ.

I am not getting paid for this. Now, I would put the question back on the person asking - as it is VERY weird they pushing this agenda of redacting important information. Are you getting paid? Why are you so focused on the suppression of information?

While the life settlement industry has dramatically cleaned up, there were multiple controversies in the early days. Most notably was the bankruptcy of Life Partners in 2015. Life Partners effectively bought policies off a long life expectancy and re-sold fractional shares to individual retail investors, using a much shorter internally generated life expectancy to justify the significant mark-up.[11] As a result, over 80% of the insured lived past the life expectancy - generating shareholder lawsuits and regulator attention - especially since they were selling to retail investors.[12] However, they were not the only fraudulent life settlement fund. another notable fraudulent fund was A&O Life Policies, which defrauded life settlement investors of over $100M.[20]

The second major scandal was STOLI. STOLI is any act, practice, or arrangement, at or prior to policy issuance, to initiate or facilitate the issuance of a life insurance policy for the intended benefit of a person who, at the time of policy origination, does not have an insurable interest in the life of the insured under the laws of the applicable state.[13] This includes an arrangement or other agreement to transfer the ownership of the policy or the policy benefits to another person.[13] The main characteristic of a STOLI arrangement is that insurance is purchased as an investment vehicle, rather than to provide for the insured's beneficiaries.[14] STOLI arrangements also may be called "zero premium life insurance", "no cost to the insured plans", "new issue life settlements", "high-net-worth settlements", or "non-recourse premium finance transactions".[14]

Prior to 2008, STOLI was popular because investor demand dramatically exceeded supply, and this was a way to manufacture product (albeit illegal) to meet demand. In many ways, it was effectively a victimless crime because everybody benefited in the short term. The investor got to deploy capital, the insured/policy owner made money from selling the policy, the insurance agent got a commission, and the insurance company grew their business. However, this all collapsed in 2008 when funding dried up and regulators took a closer look at the practice. Additionally, STOLI policies turned out to be poor investments, so long-term investor demand dried up.

The third major challenge has been self-dealing by life settlement providers and brokers - to the detriment of policy owners and investors. Most notably, Coventry was fined $12M by the state of New York for deceptive business practices.[15] Coventry also settled a lawsuit with AIG (a large life settlement investor at the time), where Coventry would use multiple shell companies to disguise policy ownership when reselling to AIG to obtain a higher profit.[16] However, these activities are not just limited to Coventry, as other life settlement brokers and providers have engaged in similar activity, albeit on a much smaller scale.Although it has dramatically improved, the life settlement industry faced challenges early on. One challenge is aggressive and deceptive marketing motivated by high sales commissions for providers and brokers. As the market for policies grew more competitive, these intermediaries gained the potential to earn as much as 30 percent of the sale price of a life settlement. This incentivized intermediaries to push life settlement sales in the secondary market, despite policyholders' level of interest in selling, surrendering or lapsing their policies.[21]

In addition, the industry has struggled with false life expectancy evaluations, poor premium reserves that increase investor costs, false promises of high profits with low risk, clean-sheeting (not disclosing a life-threatening illness in a policy application), dirty-sheeting (falsely claiming a life-threatening illness in a policy application).

Life settlement regulations have been adopted across the Unites States to prevent fraud and promote fair practices. As of 2010, 44 U.S. states adopted a form of the model uniform law developed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Federal level regulations were developed under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). [21]

September 2021

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