On May 21, 6:47 pm, "Coffee's For Closers" <Usenet2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <0d3v24tnas559tfuh8ime592u8blchk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
> > beliav...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > > Looking at some ads run enticing people
> > >to sell their life insurance policies, the rates of return for
> > >investors look high.
> > They are if the guy has the good manners to die promptly. If
> > he lives too long, the returns go in the tank.
>
> I seem to recall that happening about ten years ago. People with
> AIDs were getting these kind of loans. The idea was that, death
> was pretty much guaranteed within a few years. Then, advances in
> medications enabled some of them physically improve, and keep
> living on and on. Especially since so many of them were
> relatively young, and may have been in decent health before the
> AIDS symptoms started.
>
> I wonder if there are investors out there, still waiting.
Yes there are, but I wouldn't be too worried about them. They are
still making a hefty profit. Most AIDS victims are very young, so the
premium payments are low. Furthermore, most of the terminal patients
were in such dire financial straits that they were paid only a
fraction of the fair market value of their policies.
The abusers who too advantage of these terminally ill patients are
definitely seeing lower returns than expected, but they're probably
still making more than the average investor.
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