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How the AIDS crisis helped create a multibillion-dollar death-speculation market (opens the original)
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Listeners of our August 14 Planet Money episode may recognize some of today's newsletter. We got such a response, and so many questions, we wanted to go a little deeper with this follow up. Frank Sierawski didn't set out to discover a multibillion-dollar market for speculating on when people with life insurance policies will die. He stumbled on it by accident, after getting the worst news of his life. Over a decade ago, Sierawski got diagnosed with a rare form of Stage IV lung cancer. He has a w
Life settlements let people cash in on their own life insurance. Here's how it works (opens the original)
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Right now some of the biggest firms on Wall Street are waiting for thousands of strangers to die. They're part of a multibillion-dollar market for speculating on people's life insurance policies. Planet Money's Vito Emanuel has been exploring the life settlements industry. VITO EMANUEL, BYLINE: Frank Sierawski is a cancer survivor, and he's got this outside-the-box brain for finance. So when he heard about this thing called a life settlement on a cancer survivor Facebook group, he was intrigued.
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