RE: the meat in the business model29 Aug 2018 03:01
Urraca- some life insurance policies in the US have an investment element to them! After X number of years it doesn't matter if you pay or not. The value in the policy is based on the value of the investment value at the point of death (minus admin fees, ect).
I say this because my father had one of these policies and he hadn't paid it since the 70's and forgot about it (I imagine when he went from self employed to employed), so upon his death it was my mother who happened to remember and it was my brother and I who were the beneficiaries! In the end we got several thousand U$, but my point was that in a low market and after many years of having been forgotten, there was still a monastery value to the policy.
Here in the UK it would be similar to endowments! If you stop paying into an endowment, the policy will still have value, but there are many types of life insurance products and much like reverse mortgages here, the amount the policy holder would receive would have various factors, age, state of health, value of property (or policy) and life expectancy. So I think that if they put a good package together and are able to securitize these policies to ii or to the financial markets, then this could be huge!