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Membership Associations

AVS is founding member of the Life Insurance Settlement Association, Life Expectancy Provider Group and a member of Institutional Life Markets Association.

LISA

Life Insurance Settlement Association

LISA is the nation’s oldest and largest organization representing participants in the Settlement Industry with a current membership of over 134 Companies, doing business in all fifty states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. LISA was founded in 1994. The membership consists of Brokers, Providers, Financing Entities, and service providers to the industry. The mission is to promote the development, integrity and reputation of the life settlement industry and to promote competition in the life settlement market.

ILMA

Institutional Life Markets Association

ILMA is a not-for-profit trade association focused on the longevity and mortality-related marketplace. By creating innovative capital market solutions, ILMA members seek to expand consumer choice in one of their most important assets - their life insurance. The Association is a leader in establishing best practices and in raising awareness about this growing and vital industry.

ILMA's mission is to expand and apply capital market solutions in life insurance, educate consumers that their insurance may be a valuable asset, expand consumer choices about how to manage it, and support the responsible growth and regulation of the industry. It is ILMA’s belief that expanded consumer choice and full disclosure of all fees is good for the consumer and for the industry.

ILMA's founding members include Credit Suisse, Mizuho International plc, Goldman, Sachs & Co, UBS and WestLB AG.

LEPr

Life Expectancy Providers

LEPr is a focus group formed by life expectancy providers to develop standards of best practices and performance reporting for longevity market participants that may benefit from life expectancy and motality information. The information provided by the LEPr group represents the most important inputs for valuing a life insurance policy being considered for sale in the secondary life settlement market. The LEPr group created the first industry best practices standards for the life expectancy providers. The members of the LEPr focus group consist of AUS, AVS, EMSI, ISC, and 21st Services. Click here to access the Life Expectancy Best Practices.