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Learn what senior assisted living includes, typical costs, and options like Medicaid, VA benefits, and life settlements to help pay for care.
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Learn what senior assisted living includes, typical costs, and options like Medicaid, VA benefits, and life settlements to help pay for care.

An accelerated death benefit lets you access part of your life insurance payout while alive, typically for serious illness. Learn who qualifies, what it covers, and how it impacts your beneficiaries.

Discover how life settlements help seniors turn old policies into cash and why letting go of life insurance can be the smart move.

Compare life settlements with other senior care financing options like reverse mortgages, annuities, and long-term care insurance.

If you have a life insurance policy you no longer want or need, a life insurance buyout may be a viable option to get money

Life insurance is a long-term asset. Over the decades a life insurance policy is in force, your client’s financial situation is likely to evolve. Sometimes, that evolution is so significant that the existing life coverage is no longer a good fit.

Whether you’re the buyer or the seller, a life settlement can reshape your finances in short order. Unfortunately, not all investors and policyholders have access to the same level of life settlement opportunity. That’s because the secondary markets for life insurance vary in size and activity level from state to state. In our latest study, the Harbor Life Settlements U.S. Life Settlement Index, we set out to quantify those differences and identify the states that are most and least accommodating to high-value life settlements.

Read on for an explanation of the secondary market for life insurance, how it differs from the primary market, and the benefits eligible policyholders can expect to receive from the sale of their life insurance.

The cash surrender value of your life insurance policy is the amount of cash you may withdraw if you surrender your policy to the insurance company. By doing this, you forfeit the right to the death benefit and will no longer have to pay your premiums. This is an alternative to borrowing against your policy, which would keep it in effect and require you to still pay premiums and pay interest on what you borrowed.

Whether you’re a policyholder, an agent, or an advisor, it’s important to understand the concept of fiduciary duty and how it applies to life settlements. We’ve developed this in-depth guide to help. Read on to learn about fiduciary standards, what constitutes a breach of fiduciary duty, and the complexities of fiduciary duty as they relate to life settlements.
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