Organizational
−Removed: Express, Inc., was organized under the laws of the State of Nevada on December 14, 2001, for the purpose of selling coffee and
−Removed: other related items to the general public from retail coffee shop locations.
−Removed: These endeavors ceased in 2006, and it had no material
−Removed: business operations from 2006 until March of 2013.
−Removed: On March 29, 2013, the Company, its newly formed and wholly-owned subsidiary,
−Removed: Anew Acquisition Corp., a Utah corporation (“Merger Sub”), and ANEW LIFE, INC., a Utah corporation (“ANEW LIFE”),
−Removed: executed and delivered an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Merger Sub merged
−Removed: with and into ANEW LIFE, ANEW LIFE was the surviving company under the merger and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company
−Removed: on the closing of the merger (the “Merger”).
−Removed: On April 17, 2013, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment with
−Removed: the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada to change its name from “Java Express, Inc.”
−Removed: to “Sundance Strategies,
−Removed: Sundance Strategies, Inc.
+Added: Express, Inc., was organized under the laws of the State of Nevada on December 14, 2001, for the purpose of selling coffee and other
+Added: related items to the general public from retail coffee shop locations.
+Added: These endeavors ceased in 2006, and it had no material business
+Added: operations from 2006 until March of 2013.
+Added: On March 29, 2013, the Company, its newly formed and wholly-owned subsidiary, Anew Acquisition
+Added: Corp., a Utah corporation (“Merger Sub”), and ANEW LIFE, INC., a Utah corporation (“ANEW LIFE”), executed and
+Added: delivered an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into ANEW
+Added: LIFE, ANEW LIFE was the surviving company under the merger and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company on the closing of the
+Added: merger (the “Merger”).
+Added: On April 17, 2013, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment with the Secretary of State of the
+Added: State of Nevada to change its name from “Java Express, Inc.”
+Added: to “Sundance Strategies, Inc.”
+Added: Sundance Strategies,
is referred to as the Company, us or we.
−Removed: are currently focused on the business of purchasing residual economic interests in a portfolio of life settlements.
−Removed: A life settlement
−Removed: is the sale of an existing life insurance policy to a third party for more than the policy’s cash surrender value, but less
−Removed: than the face value of the policy benefit.
−Removed: After the sale, the new policy holder will pay the premiums due on the policy until
−Removed: maturity and then collect the settlement proceeds at maturity.
−Removed: currently do not purchase or hold life settlement or life insurance policies but, rather, previously held a contractual right
−Removed: to receive the net insurance benefits, or NIBs, from a portfolio of life insurance policies held by a third party (“the
−Removed: Owners”
+Added: historical business model has focused on purchasing or acquiring life insurance policies and residual interests in or financial products
+Added: tied to life insurance policies, including notes, drafts, acceptances, open accounts receivable and other obligations representing part
+Added: or all of the sales price of insurance, life settlements and related insurance contracts being traded in the secondary marketplace, often
+Added: referred to as the “life settlements market.”
+Added: currently do not hold life settlement or life insurance policies but, rather, previously held a contractual right to receive the net
+Added: insurance benefits, or “NIBs”, from a portfolio of life insurance policies held by a third party (“the Owners”
or “the Holders”).
−Removed: These NIBs represented an indirect, residual ownership interest in a portfolio of
−Removed: individual life insurance policies and they allowed us to receive a portion of the settlement proceeds from such policies, after
−Removed: expenses related to the acquisition, financing, insuring and servicing of the policies underlying our NIBs have been paid.
−Removed: are not responsible for maintaining premiums or other expenses related to maintaining any underlying life settlement or life insurance
−Removed: Ownership of the underlying life settlement or life insurance policies, and the related obligation to maintain such
−Removed: policies, remains with the entity that holds such policies.
−Removed: However, in the event of default of the owner, the Company may choose
−Removed: to expend funds on premiums, interest and servicing costs to protect its interest in NIBs, though the Company has no legal responsibility
−Removed: for these payments.
−Removed: are generally sold by an entity that holds the underlying life settlement or life insurance policies, either directly or indirectly
−Removed: through a subsidiary, such an entity being referred to herein as a “Holder.”
−Removed: A Holder, either directly or through
−Removed: a wholly owned subsidiary, purchases life insurance policies either from the insured or on the secondary market and aggregates
−Removed: them into a portfolio of policies.
−Removed: At the time of purchase, the Holder also (i) contracts with a service provider to manage the
−Removed: servicing of the policies until maturity, (ii) consider purchasing mortality re-insurance (“MRI”) coverage under which
−Removed: payments will be made to the Holder in the event the insurance policies do not mature according to actuarial life expectancies,
−Removed: and (iii) arranges financing to cover the initial purchase of the insurance policies, the servicing of the life insurance policies
−Removed: until maturity and the payment of the MRI premiums.
−Removed: The financing obtained by the Holder for a portfolio of life settlement or
−Removed: life insurance policies is secured by the insurance policies for which the financing was obtained.
−Removed: After a Holder purchases policies,
−Removed: aggregates them into a portfolio and arranges for the servicing, MRI coverage and financing, the Holder contracts to sell NIBs
−Removed: related to the policies, which gives the holder of the NIBs the right to receive the proceeds from the settlement of the insurance
−Removed: policies after all of the expenses related to such policies have been paid.
−Removed: When an insurance policy underlying our NIBs comes
−Removed: to maturity, the insurance proceeds are first used to pay expenses associated with such policy.
−Removed: Once all of the expenses have
−Removed: been paid, the Holder will retain a small percentage of the proceeds and then will pay the remaining insurance proceeds to us.
−Removed: began purchasing NIBs during our fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
+Added: These NIBs represented an indirect, residual ownership interest in a portfolio of individual life insurance
+Added: policies, and they allowed us to receive a portion of the settlement proceeds from such policies, after expenses related to the acquisition,
+Added: financing, insuring and servicing of the policies underlying our NIBs have been paid.
+Added: are generally sold by an entity that holds the underlying life settlement or life insurance policies, either directly or indirectly through
+Added: a subsidiary, such an entity being referred to herein as a “Holder.”
+Added: A Holder, either directly or through a wholly owned
+Added: subsidiary, purchases life insurance policies either from the insured or on the secondary market and aggregates them into a portfolio
+Added: At the time of purchase, the Holder also (i) contracts with a service provider to manage the servicing of the policies until
+Added: maturity, (ii) consider purchasing mortality re-insurance (“MRI”) coverage under which payments will be made to the Holder
+Added: in the event the insurance policies do not mature according to actuarial life expectancies, and (iii) arranges financing to cover the
+Added: initial purchase of the insurance policies, the servicing of the life insurance policies until maturity and the payment of the MRI premiums.
+Added: The financing obtained by the Holder for a portfolio of life settlement or life insurance policies is secured by the insurance policies
+Added: for which the financing was obtained.
+Added: After a Holder purchases policies, aggregates them into a portfolio and arranges for the servicing,
+Added: MRI coverage and financing, the Holder contracts to sell NIBs related to the policies, which gives the holder of the NIBs the right to
+Added: receive the proceeds from the settlement of the insurance policies after all of the expenses related to such policies have been paid.
+Added: When an insurance policy underlying our NIBs comes to maturity, the insurance proceeds are first used to pay expenses associated with
+Added: Once all of the expenses have been paid, the Holder will retain a small percentage of the proceeds and then will pay the
+Added: remaining insurance proceeds to us.
+Added: the latter part of the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, the Company began developing an additional business offering, providing professional
+Added: services to specialty structured finance groups, bond issuers and life settlement aggregators.
+Added: The Company has now assembled an experienced
+Added: team from the life settlement marketplace, as well as from other areas such as financial services and public financial markets.
+Added: professional services provider, the Company applies industry best practices to advise on the selection of specific portfolios of life
+Added: insurance policies that are tailored to meet the needs of its clients.
+Added: The Company’s clients may include bond issuers, bond investors,
+Added: or other structured finance product issuers.
+Added: The Company develops strategies and methodologies which include the acquisition of life
+Added: insurance portfolios, then uses common structured finance techniques and proprietary analytics to structure bonds for issuances, including
+Added: principal protected bonds.
+Added: The Company’s goal is to deliver long-term value and profitability to shareholders by growing the Company’s
+Added: professional services business and asset base, resulting in the ability to pay dividends to its shareholders.
+Added: recently the Company began working closely with bond placement agents and aggregators to establish various aspects of a proprietary,
+Added: investment grade bond offering.
+Added: In this arrangement, the Company participates as the sole originator in the role of structuring and advising
+Added: on the structure of the proprietary bond instrument.
+Added: Included in the role of structuring financial assets, the Company uses proprietary
+Added: analytics to establish the makeup of the rated instrument, including but not limited to, life settlement assets (life insurance policies)
+Added: and managed cash, and implements a process of selective assembly of the underlying assets and cash management that will meet the policy
+Added: requirements and analytics.
+Added: The Company provides current and ongoing resources for all analytics, as well as advisement support for the
+Added: investment and non-investment grade ratings for the managed asset pool and the managed cash accounts.
+Added: In its advisory role, the Company
+Added: is reimbursed for all expenses associated with the structuring and preparation of any bond offering, will receive an advisory payment
+Added: upon the closing of any bond offering, and then will hold residual rights on the balance of assets once the bond is retired.
+Added: to March 31, 2021, the Company and US Capital Global Securities LLC, an affiliate of US Capital Global, entered into an arrangement wherein
+Added: the Company is the lead advisor and lead originator of tailored life insurance portfolios to be used in a life insurance-linked bond
+Added: offering (“bond offering”) of between $250 million to $500 million.
+Added: US Capital Global Securities LLC is the lead placement
+Added: agent and is marketing the bond offering on behalf of the issuer on a best efforts basis to qualified investors.
+Added: The Company has worked
+Added: with Egan Jones rating agency to obtain a minimum of BBB plus to an A minus rating on the bond offering.
+Added: This initial rating is based
+Added: upon a sample portfolio of life settlement assets similar to those expected to be utilized in the bond offering.
+Added: Once a percentage of
+Added: the bond offering is in escrow, then the actual life settlement portfolios will be purchased and held until the bond offering closes.
+Added: Once the final group of assets are assembled, then a final rating will be obtained.
+Added: The Company has engaged a licensed asset manager,
+Added: whose projected returns will be approved by the rating agency.
+Added: Important for the success of the bond is the treatment of the various
+Added: cash accounts that will support the bond.
+Added: The two primary accounts will be the Investment account and the Cash Reserve account.
+Added: accounts will represent approximately 40% of the total cash raised from the bond offering.
+Added: The Investment and Cash Reserve accounts are
+Added: projected to produce sufficient annual returns to support the cost associated to maintain the bonds.
+Added: A nationally recognized trust manager
+Added: has been engaged to ensure that all the workings of the bond are handled properly and timely.
+Added: An actuarial company has also been engaged
+Added: to provide the modeling needed for the rating agency, asset manager and bond issuer.
+Added: For services provided, the Company will receive
+Added: a fee upon the closing on the bond offering and will also hold a residual monetary right to cash flows from the life settlement assets
+Added: once the bond is retired.
Settlements Market
are a number of reasons a policy owner may choose to sell his or her life insurance policy.
−Removed: The policy owner may no longer need
−Removed: or want his or her policy, he or she may wish to purchase a different kind of insurance policy, premium payments may no longer
−Removed: be affordable or the policy owner may need cash to fund healthcare or other expenses.
−Removed: In particular, policy holders 65 years of
−Removed: age and older and their families are faced with a variety of challenges as they seek to address their post-retirement financial
−Removed: needs and selling one’s life insurance policy may provide a unique and valuable financial solution to such challenges.
−Removed: the early 2000s through 2008, the market for newly originated life settlements grew from virtually no activity to a peak of an
−Removed: estimated $12 billion of face value of U.S.
+Added: The policy owner may no longer need or want
+Added: his or her policy, he or she may wish to purchase a different kind of insurance policy, premium payments may no longer be affordable
+Added: or the policy owner may need cash to fund healthcare or other expenses.
+Added: In particular, policy holders 65 years of age and older and their
+Added: families are faced with a variety of challenges as they seek to address their post-retirement financial needs and selling one’s
+Added: life insurance policy may provide a unique and valuable financial solution to such challenges.
+Added: From the early 2000s through 2008, the
+Added: market for newly originated life settlements grew from virtually no activity to a peak of an estimated $12 billion of face value of U.S.
life settlement policies settled annually in 2007 and 2008.
−Removed: Economic factors slowed
−Removed: the growth in 2009, when an estimated $8 billion of face value of U.S.
−Removed: life insurance was settled and growth has continued to
−Removed: decline since that time.
−Removed: According to a 2015 study done by the insurance research group Conning & Co., investors purchased
−Removed: $1.7 billion worth of U.S.
−Removed: life insurance face value in 2014, bringing its estimate of the total face value of life settlements
−Removed: held at year end to just over $32 billion.
−Removed: Looking ahead, however, Conning & Co.
−Removed: projected steady growth in the amount of
−Removed: face value available for life settlements, though it may take years to re-attract capital to pre-2009 levels to meet that supply.
−Removed: Regardless, we believe that the supply of policies has the potential to increase over time due to the aging population and increased
−Removed: awareness of the life settlement market as an alternative to allowing a policy to lapse for little or no value.
−Removed: A report from
−Removed: the AAP Life Settlement Market Update indicated that internal rates of return for life settlement transactions conducted in 2013
−Removed: were in the high-teens.
−Removed: Participants in the secondary life settlement market have included major insurance companies which have
−Removed: purchased available pools of policies for their own investment, portfolio aggregators, private equity funds, and independent third-party
−Removed: Business Model
+Added: Economic factors slowed the growth in 2009, when an estimated $8 billion
+Added: of face value of U.S.
+Added: life insurance was settled and growth has continued to decline since that time.
+Added: According to a 2015 study prepared
+Added: by the insurance research group Conning & Co., investors purchased $1.7 billion worth of U.S.
+Added: life insurance face value in 2014,
+Added: bringing its estimate of the total face value of life settlements held at year end to just over $32 billion.
+Added: Looking ahead, however,
+Added: Conning & Co.
+Added: projected steady growth in the amount of face value available for life settlements, though it may take years to re-attract
+Added: capital to pre-2009 levels to meet that supply.
+Added: Regardless, we believe that the supply of policies has the potential to increase over
+Added: time due to the aging population and increased awareness of the life settlement market as an alternative to allowing a policy to lapse
+Added: for little or no value.
+Added: A report from the AAP Life Settlement Market Update indicated that internal rates of return for life settlement
+Added: transactions conducted in 2013 were in the high-teens.
+Added: Participants in the secondary life settlement market have included major insurance
+Added: companies which have purchased available pools of policies for their own investment, portfolio aggregators, private equity funds, and
+Added: independent third-party investors.
Predictability
of Future Cash Flows .
−Removed: Predictability of future cash flows is one of the biggest challenges facing companies engaged in
−Removed: the life settlements industry.
−Removed: If a Holder is not able to adequately predict future cash flows and does not continually have enough
−Removed: cash to make a policy portfolio’s premium payments, the policies in the portfolio may lapse and we may lose our right to
−Removed: receive the proceeds from the settlement of the policies at maturity.
−Removed: Prediction of future cash flow requires the use of financial
−Removed: models, which rely on various assumptions.
−Removed: These assumptions include the amount and timing of projected net cash receipts, expected
−Removed: maturity events, counter party performance risk, changes to applicable regulation of the investment, shortage of funds needed
−Removed: to maintain the asset until maturity, changes in discount rates, life expectancy estimates and their relation to premiums, interest,
−Removed: and other costs incurred, among other items.
−Removed: These uncertainties and contingencies are difficult to predict and are subject to
−Removed: future events that may impact our estimates and interest income.
−Removed: As a result, actual results could differ significantly from those
−Removed: If projections of life expectancies are wrong, Holders may be obligated to service the related insurance policies for
−Removed: longer than expected, thereby increasing their costs and reducing the net insurance benefit available to us.
+Added: Predictability of future cash flows is one of the biggest challenges facing companies engaged in the life
+Added: settlements industry.
+Added: If a Holder is not able to adequately predict future cash flows and does not continually have enough cash to make
+Added: a policy portfolio’s premium payments, the policies in the portfolio may lapse and we may lose our right to receive the proceeds
+Added: from the settlement of the policies at maturity.
+Added: Prediction of future cash flow requires the use of financial models, which rely on various
+Added: These assumptions include the amount and timing of projected net cash receipts, expected maturity events, counter party
+Added: performance risk, changes to applicable regulation of the investment, shortage of funds needed to maintain the asset until maturity,
+Added: changes in discount rates, life expectancy estimates and their relation to premiums, interest, and other costs incurred, among other
+Added: These uncertainties and contingencies are difficult to predict and are subject to future events that may impact our estimates
+Added: and interest income.
+Added: As a result, actual results could differ significantly from those estimates.
+Added: If projections of life expectancies
+Added: are wrong, Holders may be obligated to service the related insurance policies for longer than expected, thereby increasing their costs
+Added: and reducing the net insurance benefit available.
a portion of the purchase price .
−Removed: Financing a portion of the purchase price of a policy portfolio allows the Holder to
−Removed: leverage its investment and create a larger and diversified policy portfolio.
−Removed: When making an investment in a portfolio of life
−Removed: insurance policies, a Holder utilizes actuarial tables to determine when the policies in the portfolio can be expected to come
−Removed: However, the Holder assumes the risk that the policies in the portfolio will come to maturity later than was predicted
−Removed: by the actuarial tables used at the time of purchase.
−Removed: The life expectancies provided by the actuarial tables are based on actual
−Removed: death rates in large populations of individuals with similar demographic characteristics.
−Removed: Thus, the more policies underlying a
−Removed: policy portfolio, the more reliable the use of actuarial tables becomes.
−Removed: In other words, the larger the policy portfolio, the
−Removed: more closely the underlying insureds would be expected to, on average, follow actuarial predictions and the lower the risk associated
−Removed: with future cash flows will be.
−Removed: Because we want predictability and stability in the cash flows generated by our NIBs, we have
−Removed: only purchased NIBs where the Holder of the underlying policy portfolio has maximized its investment in the policy portfolios
−Removed: by financing a portion of the purchase price.
−Removed: premium payments .
−Removed: Holding NIBs where the Holder of the policy portfolio has ensured its ability to pay policy premiums
−Removed: by financing such premium payments and ensured the predictability of future cash flows by obtaining MRI provides us with a more
−Removed: stable cash position and enables us to focus on long term growth.
+Added: Financing a portion of the purchase price of a policy portfolio allows the Holder to leverage
+Added: its investment and create a larger and diversified policy portfolio.
+Added: When making an investment in a portfolio of life insurance policies,
+Added: a Holder utilizes actuarial tables to determine when the policies in the portfolio can be expected to come to maturity.
+Added: Holder assumes the risk that the policies in the portfolio will come to maturity later than was predicted by the actuarial tables used
+Added: at the time of purchase.
+Added: The life expectancies provided by the actuarial tables are based on actual death rates in large populations
+Added: of individuals with similar demographic characteristics.
+Added: Thus, the more policies underlying a policy portfolio, the more reliable the
+Added: use of actuarial tables becomes.
+Added: In other words, the larger the policy portfolio, the more closely the underlying insureds would be expected
+Added: to, on average, follow actuarial predictions and the lower the risk associated with future cash flows will be.
+Added: Because of the general
+Added: uncertainty of maturity of life insurance policies, financing for their purchase and servicing has historically been difficult to secure.
+Added: The lender (the “Holders’
+Added: Lender”) has provided financing to the Holders to finance the purchase of the insurance policies.
+Added: We believe there are few lenders within this market.
Re-Insurance (MRI) Coverage .
−Removed: Because of the uncertainty of maturity of insurance policies the Holders had, on occasion,
−Removed: previously contracted with an insurance provider for MRI coverage.
−Removed: We do not have a contract with the MRI provider and the MRI
−Removed: provider has not provided any insurance to us but, rather, provided MRI coverage to the various Holders of life insurance policies
−Removed: underlying our NIBs.
−Removed: MRI coverage typically provides guaranteed cash flow based on the expected death benefits of the pool of
−Removed: policies being insured calculated at the issuance of the coverage and thereby provides credit enhancement to any bank providing
−Removed: financing to a Holder.
+Added: Because of the uncertainty of maturity of insurance policies the Holders had, on occasion, previously
+Added: contracted with an insurance provider for MRI coverage.
+Added: MRI coverage typically provides guaranteed cash flow based on the expected death
+Added: benefits of the pool of policies being insured calculated at the issuance of the coverage and thereby provides credit enhancement to
+Added: any bank providing financing to a Holder.
The term of the MRI policies is usually 15 years.
−Removed: Any claims paid by the MRI to the Holder must be paid
−Removed: back to the MRI provider out of death benefit proceeds from the pool of policies being insured when such death benefit proceeds
+Added: Any claims paid by the MRI to the Holder
+Added: must be paid back to the MRI provider out of death benefit proceeds from the pool of policies being insured when such death benefit proceeds
are eventually received.
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in the cash flows that would otherwise be more pronounced in the absence of the MRI coverage.
−Removed: Any claim payment balances would
−Removed: accrue interest, typically at a spread of 250 basis points over LIBOR, to the extent they remain outstanding.
−Removed: The MRI coverage
−Removed: is obtained by paying an MRI premium, typically at equal to 2% of the cumulative death benefit of the covered life insurance policies,
−Removed: at the outset of the coverage and, depending on the specific terms of the MRI policy, possibly an additional premium amount at
−Removed: a predetermined time during the effective coverage period (the “Commitment Fee”), which is typically 1% of the cumulative
−Removed: death benefits of the covered policies.
−Removed: The insurer under the MRI policy typically must approve the sale of any life insurance
−Removed: policies covered by the MRI policy if such sale does not result in the full repayment of any outstanding recovery amounts.
−Removed: is our understanding that there is only one MRI Provider.
−Removed: While the MRI coverage is relatively expensive, we believe that insurance
−Removed: policies underlying NIBs that are covered by MRI have less volatility, are more liquid and should achieve higher values for purposes
−Removed: of financing and secondary market sales.
+Added: Any claim payment balances would accrue
+Added: interest, typically at a spread of 250 basis points over LIBOR, to the extent they remain outstanding.
+Added: The MRI coverage is obtained by
+Added: paying an MRI premium, typically at equal to 2% of the cumulative death benefit of the covered life insurance policies, at the outset
+Added: of the coverage and, depending on the specific terms of the MRI policy, possibly an additional premium amount at a predetermined time
+Added: during the effective coverage period (the “Commitment Fee”), which is typically 1% of the cumulative death benefits of the
+Added: covered policies.
+Added: The insurer under the MRI policy typically must approve the sale of any life insurance policies covered by the MRI
+Added: policy if such sale does not result in the full repayment of any outstanding recovery amounts.
+Added: It is our understanding that there is
+Added: only one MRI Provider.
+Added: While the MRI coverage is relatively expensive, we believe that insurance policies that are covered by MRI have
+Added: less volatility, are more liquid and should achieve higher values for purposes of financing and secondary market sales.
a policy portfolio’s premium payments gives a Holder additional cash needed to satisfy the premium obligations of its portfolio.
−Removed: In addition, obtaining MRI increases the probability that the Holder will receive future cash flows in the event the underlying
−Removed: insureds live longer than expected.
+Added: In addition, obtaining MRI increases the probability that the Holder will receive future cash flows in the event the underlying insureds
+Added: live longer than expected.
This combination provides the Holder with sufficient liquidity to stabilize its cash position.
−Removed: and, in turn, increases the likelihood that we will receive the NIB we have purchased related to the Holder’s portfolio.
−Removed: Settlement Financing Market
−Removed: of the uncertainty of maturity of life insurance policies, financing for the purchase and servicing of life insurance policies
−Removed: has historically been difficult to secure.
−Removed: The lender (the “Holders’
−Removed: Lender”) has provided financing to the
−Removed: Holders to finance the purchase of the insurance policies underlying our NIBs.
−Removed: To be clear, the Holders’
−Removed: Lender does not
−Removed: provide any financing to us but, rather, provides financing to the various Holders of life insurance policies underlying our NIBs.
−Removed: We have no contract, arrangement or understanding with the Holders’
−Removed: The Holders’
−Removed: Lender contracts with the
−Removed: Holders for financing to purchase the insurance policies underlying our NIBs.
−Removed: We believe there are few lenders within this market.
−Removed: The failure of the Holders’
−Removed: Lender or other lenders to make loans to Holders may result in Holders’
−Removed: inability to provide
−Removed: NIBs to us for purchase and our business model of purchasing and holding NIBs will suffer substantially.
−Removed: We do not have a direct
−Removed: contractual relationship with the Holders’
−Removed: loans from the original Holders’
−Removed: Lender had a term of 4 to 5 years at an interest rate between 4.5% and 8% compounded quarterly
−Removed: (12.1% in the event of default) and was secured by the life insurance policies owned by the Holder.
−Removed: During October 2017, the entities
−Removed: completed a refinancing of the loans that had matured.
−Removed: The agreements were with a new senior lending facility who previously provided
−Removed: MRI for the underlying policies.
−Removed: Between May 2018 and July 2018, the Holders entered into agreements that completed a strict foreclosure
−Removed: transaction that transferred the underlying life insurance policies relating to the Company’s NIBs to the lenders in full
−Removed: satisfaction of the loan obligation.
−Removed: NIB Purchasing Guidelines
−Removed: objective is to acquire NIBs based on insurance policy portfolios that will produce returns in excess of the purchase, financing,
−Removed: servicing and insuring costs incurred by the Holder and hold those NIBs to maturity.
+Added: Settlement Purchasing Guidelines as an Advisor
+Added: objective is to advise and assist entities as they acquire Life Insurance policies and portfolios that will produce returns in excess
+Added: of any and all purchase, financing, servicing and insuring costs incurred by the Holder.
The guidelines we generally follow regarding
−Removed: the purchase of NIBs include:
+Added: the purchase of policies and portfolios include:
insured is 75 years old or older;
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Universal Life Insurance policies;
−Removed: underlying insurance policies have qualified for financing that will cover at least four years of premiums following the date
−Removed: on which we acquire the NIBs;
+Added: underlying insurance policies have qualified for financing that will cover at least four years of premiums;
policy must first be reviewed by the legal due diligence team of the lender providing financing for the acquisition and servicing
−Removed: of the life insurance policies, second by the MRI company’s due diligence team and then finally approved by our due
−Removed: diligence processes;
+Added: of the life insurance policies, second by the MRI company’s due diligence team and then finally approved by our due diligence
policies must qualify for MRI;
−Removed: projected proceeds payable on each life insurance policy upon the death of the underlying insured are projected to exceed
−Removed: the costs to service the life insurance policies, amounts due to creditors secured by such life insurance policy, such as
−Removed: the Holders’
−Removed: Lender or the MRI provider, other costs and fees incurred by the Holder and the percentage of the remaining
−Removed: insurance benefit retained by the Holder before payment is made to us in satisfaction of our NIBs.
−Removed: are not aware of any other company engaged in the business of buying NIBs.
−Removed: However, we encounter significant competition in the
−Removed: life settlements industry generally from numerous companies, including hedge funds, investment banks, secured lenders, specialty
−Removed: life insurance finance companies and life insurance companies themselves who purchase life settlements.
−Removed: Many of these competitors
−Removed: have greater financial and other resources than we do and may have significantly lower cost of funds because they have greater
−Removed: access to insured deposits or the capital markets.
−Removed: Moreover, some of these competitors have significant cash reserves and can
−Removed: better fund shortfalls in collections that might have a more pronounced impact on companies such as ours.
+Added: projected proceeds payable on each life insurance policy upon the death of the underlying insured are projected to exceed the costs
+Added: to service the life insurance policies, amounts due to creditors secured by such life insurance policy, such as the Holders’
+Added: Lender or the MRI provider, other costs and fees incurred by the Holder and the percentage of the remaining insurance benefit retained
+Added: by the Holder
+Added: encounter significant competition in the life settlements industry generally from numerous companies, including hedge funds, investment
+Added: banks, secured lenders, specialty life insurance finance companies and life insurance companies themselves who purchase life settlements.
+Added: Many of these competitors have greater financial and other resources than we do and may have significantly lower cost of funds because
+Added: they have greater access to insured deposits or the capital markets.
+Added: Moreover, some of these competitors have significant cash reserves
+Added: and can better fund shortfalls in collections that might have a more pronounced impact on companies such as ours.
They also have greater
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volumes were reported higher by market participants in all major segments of the industry and Conning & Co.
−Removed: forecast an average
−Removed: annual gross market potential for life settlements of $180 billion from 2014-2023, with an average volume of approximately $3
−Removed: billion per year in life settlement transactions.
+Added: forecast an average annual
+Added: gross market potential for life settlements of $180 billion from 2014-2023, with an average volume of approximately $3 billion per year
+Added: in life settlement transactions.
report from the AAP Life Settlement Market Update indicated that internal rates of return for life settlement transactions conducted
−Removed: in 2013 were in the high-teens, an attractive return at a time when fixed income and other hedge positions were delivering minimal
−Removed: rates of return.
−Removed: In the event that certain better-financed companies make a significant effort to compete against our business
−Removed: or the secondary market in general, prices paid for existing portfolios of life insurance policies may rise and our ability to
−Removed: purchase NIBs or realize a return on NIBs may decline.
−Removed: In addition, recent shrinking of the market for life settlements has resulted
−Removed: in fewer available pools of insurance policies.
+Added: in 2013 were in the high-teens, an attractive return at a time when fixed income and other hedge positions were delivering minimal rates
+Added: In the event that certain better-financed companies make a significant effort to compete against our business or the secondary
+Added: market in general, prices paid for existing portfolios of life insurance policies may rise and our ability to purchase satisfactory assets
+Added: In addition, recent shrinking of the market for life settlements has resulted in fewer available pools of insurance policies.
As a result, price competition for the remaining pools has increased.
−Removed: resources prohibit us from competing for larger pools.
−Removed: These factors could adversely affect our profitability by reducing our
−Removed: return on investment or increasing our risk.
−Removed: NIB Portfolio
−Removed: October 2017, the Holders of the life settlements completed a refinancing of the loans that had matured.
−Removed: The agreements were with
−Removed: a new senior lending facility who previously provided MRI for the underlying policies.
−Removed: Between May 2018 and July 2018, the Holders
−Removed: entered into agreements that completed a strict foreclosure transaction that transferred the underlying life insurance policies
−Removed: relating to the Company’s NIBs to the lenders in full satisfaction of the loan obligation.
−Removed: As a result of the foreclosure,
−Removed: the Company has lost its position in the residual benefits of the policies and reduced the carrying value of the NIBs at March
−Removed: 31, 2018 to zero.
−Removed: The Company held no NIBs during the fiscal years ended March 31, 2019 or 2020.
+Added: Our limited resources prohibit us from competing for larger pools.
+Added: These factors could adversely affect our profitability by reducing our return on investment or increasing our risk.
March 31, 2021, we had two full-time employees:
Pearson, our President;
−Removed: Fuller, Esq., our general legal
−Removed: On March 31, 2020, the Company had two total employees.
+Added: Fuller, Esq., our general legal counsel.
website address is www.sundancestrategies.com.
−Removed: We make available free of charge on the Investor Relations portion of our website,
−Removed: our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports
−Removed: filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable
−Removed: after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
+Added: We make available free of charge on the Investor Relations portion of our website, our
+Added: annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished
+Added: pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file
+Added: such material with, or furnish it to, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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