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                    <title><![CDATA[Coventry Lays Off 12% of Staff, Restructures Capital Markets Team]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=wkhnrmkwguqoukl</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Coventry laid off about 12% of its 300-employee workforce, most of them in its life settlement busin...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:46:17 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[KPMG Requesting Lifemark Be Moved into Judicial Liquidation]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=bkhqwvdojctjxvh</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[As bondholders prepare to vote on an orderly wind-down of Lifemark, the life settlement bond company...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:07:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[New Jersey Governor Picks Insurance Commissioner]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=airpziihrsmqxkq</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has nominated Ken Kobylowski as the state&apos;s insurance and banking com...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:29:12 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Nevada Federal Court Case Allows Insurers to Retain Premiums]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=widyrmppmxrkukh</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[A Nevada federal court case holding that insurers can retain premiums in a stranger-originated life ...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:29:10 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Mulholland Liquidates His Consulting Firm in Bermuda]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=bdjofqqulptcmla</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Jeff Mulholland, former chairman and chief executive of Insurance Capital Markets who joined Societe...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:16:28 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Secondary Market Players See Improving Business Despite a Pummeling]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=jmskovpydgfrnlx</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Secondary market players who remain after the contraction that began more than three years ago are s...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:12:37 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Neuman Takes Leave of Absence from Imperial Holdings]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=hmaphnqgdjefqqy</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Neuman, president and chief operating officer of Imperial Holdings, has taken a voluntary f...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:02:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[ARM Entertaining Other Offers Following Failed Insetco Deal]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=kjqcrcsxhntuyfq</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[ARM Asset-Backed Securities has received other proposals for its $320 million life settlement portfo...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:48:51 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Insetco&apos;s Offer to Buy ARM Collapses]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=ocjvklhaezqjpte</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[A proposal for Insetco, a relatively new market player, to acquire the troubled ARM Asset-Backed Sec...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:35:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Vespera Life Finds Funder to Buy Small-Face Policies]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=hlqmokdtuzjjivc</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Vespera Life, which obtained a provider&apos;s license from Florida in February 2011, said it plans to bu...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:57:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Pardo, Peden Win Re-Election to Life Partners Board]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=sezcwhbfkksaqzi</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Brian Pardo, chief executive of beleaguered Life Partners Holdings, and Scott Peden, general counsel...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:24:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[FSA Shows No Bending to Industry Criticism]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=isrdtoxllkenfhq</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[As the Financial Services Authority&apos;s formal public comment period on whether to ban life settlement...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:02:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Monarch Alternative Capital Puts in Winning Bid for Part of Caldwell Portfolio]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=rpxsstmjucnccwr</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Monarch Alternative Capital, a New York-based buyer of distressed assets, has put in a winning bid f...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:45:48 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[New Jersey Insurance Commissioner Leaving Job, Paper Says]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=ozfwrjiazaiznrn</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[New Jersey&apos;s insurance and banking commissioner, Tom Considine, plans to give up his position in Feb...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:38:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[California Man Faces Foreclosure After Refinancing Home to Pay for $3M Policy]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=yqsweffmauiximt</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[A California man who took out a line of credit to pay premiums on a $3 million policy that he could ...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:11:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Imperial Obtains Funding for Structured Settlement Receivables]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=fywqhsgvuelzycp</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Imperial Holdings, the Boca Raton, Fla., specialty-finance firm being investigated by federal author...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:02:34 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Welcome Funds Finds Buyer for Small-Face Term Conversion Policies]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=qfowbiwstryfxxa</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Welcome Funds, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based life settlement broker, has found an A-rated institutional b...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:31:01 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[AVS Underwriting Starts Giving Credits for Statin Use]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=ubnvevcxausldtp</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[AVS Underwriting recently began giving credits in its life expectancy estimates for people taking st...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:44:01 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[FINRA Says Brokers Charged Excessive Fees on Variables]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=jiheljheydwsuqd</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Two brokers charged excessive fees ranging from 17% to 36% for five variable life settlement transac...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:39:00 PST</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Attorneys Say Criminal Charges Against Pardo Unlikely]]></title>
                    <link>http://lifesettlements.dealflow.com/article/article.cfm?sk=gppvywficiedetw</link>
                    <description><![CDATA[Two former Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys say they believe it is unlikely that federal...]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:08:00 PST</pubDate>
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