{"id":15954,"date":"2010-05-31T07:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2010-05-31T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:03:50","slug":"pension-funds-bet-on-death-through-life-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/pension-funds-bet-on-death-through-life-settlements.html","title":{"rendered":"Pension funds bet on death through life settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post Gazette &#8211; Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are trying to reduce their  pension funds&#8217; exposure to the volatile stock market through a  relatively new type of investment based on life insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p>The two governments&#8217; modest investments in life settlements &#8212; buying  and selling the rights to the death benefits paid by life insurance  policies covering wealthy individuals &#8212; is not common in the pension  fund world, where real estate, hedge funds, private equity and other  alternative investments have been mainstays for years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10150\/1061874-455.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/10150\/1061874-455.stm#ixzz0pVJ3bZan\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post Gazette &#8211; Allegheny and Westmoreland counties are trying to reduce their pension funds&#8217; exposure to the volatile stock market through a relatively new type of investment based on life insurance policies. The two governments&#8217; modest investments in life settlements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}