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1 Page 1 of 5 Free s ( Newsletters ( Latest issue ( Cruise 2015 ( My Subscriptions Log out ( Search articles, share prices Home ( Investments ( Home ( > Lessons from the death bonds debacle Prices & Charts ( Property ( Lessons from the death bonds debacle Gold ( 15/06/2015 Trading ( 0 comments (#disqus_thread Economy ( The Big Stories ( Funds investing in death bonds (or less melodramatically, traded life policies hit the Personal news again Finance this ( These funds buy life insurance policies from the ill and elderly in Blogs the ( US. They pay the premiums, and when the original policyholders die, collect the payouts. It sounds a reasonable idea if macabre but the funds ran into trouble. People are living longer than expected (so payouts are slower in coming and more premiums have to be paid. And the market for the policies is illiquid, so selling them to allow investors to cash out has been a problem too. It arguably didn t help that in 2011 Britain s then-financial regulator, the FSA, described the investments as toxic, effectively leading to a run on the schemes, many of which are now frozen. Richard Dyson in The Daily Telegraph notes that investors are considering legal action against one provider EEA Life Settlements while Judith Evans in the Financial Times notes that the value of another fund the MPL Traded Policies fund has dropped by 60% in a year. This is a miserable situation for the investors involved, with no clear route to resolution amid the various parties arguing over what to do to maximise the value of the remaining portfolios. But there are a couple of broader lessons here for anyone who wants to avoid getting caught up in this sort of situation. Firstly, don t put all your eggs into one basket, and particularly not an exotic basket like this. The FT article talks to at least two investors who had invested hundreds of thousands of pounds between them, which they can ill afford to lose. FREE DAILY Receive our thought-provoking investment every weekday morning & become a smarter investor. To sign-up click continue below. Continue >> ( Popular 3A11babaf2e346dc/ / Latest Most commented Two absolute bargain wines ( By: Matthew Jukes ( Fund of the week: Neil Woodford s stunning solo career ( Lessons from the death bonds debacle ( Three reasons we re about to have a new FTSE takeover frenzy ( By: Matthew Lynn ( MoneyWeek magazine Latest issue ( ( Do we need estate agents? How to sell up without one

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