Past Sponsors & Exhibitors

Coventry

Website: www.coventry.com

For over 25 years, Coventry has been redefining insurance. Founded in 1982, Coventry began as an insurance marketing, product development and policy administration firm. Known as a leading innovator in the industry, Coventry assisted insurance carriers in the development of product, software and distribution. It established itself as one of the top corporate life insurance companies in America during the 1990s, servicing over 70,000 policies for its corporate clients. In 1998, Coventry created the secondary market for life insurance in the United States and coined the term "life settlement".

As the market leader, Coventry has structured and financed transactions representing more than $25 billion of death benefit and has been a key driver behind the market's rapid growth. Today, Coventry is the largest purchaser and servicer in the longevity and mortality market, employing more than 200 people. Based in Pennsylvania, Coventry was the first secondary market firm to earn Standard and Poor's highest servicer ranking (2004 and reaffirmed in 2006). In 2005, Coventry was first in revenue in the insurance category of the annual Inc. 500 listing of the fastest growing private companies in America.

Life Equity

Website: www.lifeequity.net

Life Equity is a national leader in the life settlement market. Since its formation in August 2000, Life Equity has offered a professional business approach to life settlements. Life Equity is respected for its integrity and fairness in dealing with all parties involved in a life settlement transaction, its protection of the legal, financial and reputational interests of the institutional investors with which it works, and its adherence to the highest regulatory, legal and ethical business practices in the life settlement market. In addition to being a licensed provider in virtually every state that regulates life settlements, Life Equity offers a comprehensive platform for investors in life settlements by providing consulting, actuarial, modeling, policy servicing and asset management expertise. Life Equity co-founded the Life Settlement Institute.

Credit Suisse

Website: www.credit-suisse.com

As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Credit Suisse offers advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 48,000 people. Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group, is a leading global financial services company headquartered in Zurich. Credit Suisse Group's registered shares (CSGN) are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depository Shares (CS), in New York. The Life Finance Group at Credit Suisse is a dedicated group of over 90 professionals with backgrounds in various industries which include insurance, banking, structuring, sales and risk management based in New York, London and Hong Kong.

Thomson Reuters

Website: financial.thomsonreuters.com/ILS

Thomson Reuters: Gain additional insight into the convergence of Insurance and Capital Markets by becoming a member of the Insurance Linked Securities Community from Thomson Reuters. The site aggregates news, market data, pricing and provides a way for participants to make new connections and exchange information with their peers. Join now, at no cost, by visiting http://financial.thomsonreuters.com/ILS.

Website: www.northstarlife.com

Formerly the servicing division of Pacifica Group, LLC, NorthStar Life Services currently manages life asset portfolios comprising in excess of $8 billion in face value. At NorthStar, we view servicing as more than a commodity. Our comprehensive services include in-depth acquisition due diligence, premium optimization analysis, medical and life expectancy monitoring and analysis, efficient mortality tracking and policy collection, and financial accounting and reporting. Our years of experience, sophisticated methodologies and proactive approach to portfolio management will enhance the return on your life assets investment.

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell

Website: www.lockelord.com

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell is a full-service law firm of approximately 700 attorneys with offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Sacramento and Washington, DC. Locke Lord has served the life settlement and premium finance industries for over 13 years and in the general life insurance industry for over 50 years. LLB&L represents clients involved in every aspect of life settlement and premium finance transactions, including institutional investors, financing entities, capital sources, premium finance lenders, domestic and foreign life settlement providers, life settlement brokers, life insurance producers, broker-dealers, and insurance and reinsurance companies.

BSX

Website: www.bsx.com

Established in 1971 the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) is now the leading fully electronic offshore securities market. The Exchange specializes in listing and trading of capital market instruments such as equities, debt issues, funds, hedge funds, derivative warrants and Insurance Linked Securities. The BSX is an Approved Stock Exchange status under Australia's Foreign Investment Fund (FIF) taxation rules, Designated Investment Exchange status by the UK's Financial Services Authority and in December of 2007 was granted Recognised Stock Exchange by the UK HM Revenue and Customs. In February 2008 the BSX became a member of America's Central Securities Depository Association. tel: 441-292-7212.

Website: www.willis.com

Willis Group Holdings Limited is a leading global insurance broker, developing and delivering professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world. Willis has more than 400 offices in nearly 120 countries, with a global team of approximately 20,000 Associates serving clients in some 190 countries. Additional information on Willis may be found at www.willis.com

Karen Clark

Website: www.karenclarkandco.com

Karen Clark & Company provides software products and consulting services that help insurance companies evaluate and improve their exposure data processes, to better understand catastrophe risk, and to more effectively utilize models and model results. Karen Clark & Company professionals are independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models, and catastrophe risk management who work with insurance company executives to enhance business strategies, competitive advantage, and financial results. For more information, please visit www.karenclarkandco.com.

EQECAT

Website: www.eqecat.com

EQECAT Inc., an affiliate of ABSG Consulting Inc., is the leading authority on extreme-risk modeling and analysis for catastrophe bonds and ILWs. eCAT is a natural catastrophe risk tool designed to help investors in insurance-linked securities efficiently manage a portfolio of correlated and un-correlated risks. EQECAT offers the most accurate, up-to-date natural and man-made catastrophe risk estimation models and continues the advancement of understanding natural catastrophe and risk finance. EQECAT’s WORLDCATenterprise™ platform includes 177 natural hazard software models for 89 countries spanning six continents, and is based on the latest developments in mathematics, engineering, physics, and other scientific research.

Worldcheck

Website: www.world-check.com/

Trusted by more than 3,800 institutions in over 160 countries, including 49 of the world’s top 50 banks, World-Check offers an end-to-end solution for assessing, managing and remediating financial, regulatory and reputational risks. World-Check’s global database of heightened risk individuals and entities, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reports, passport verification and country risk assessment tools provide the means to address the full spectrum of risk across all markets and industries. Represented across five continents, World-Check’s international research team monitors emerging risks in more than 50 languages, covering over 240 countries and territories worldwide.

AIR Worldwide

Website: www.air-worldwide.com

AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) is the scientific leader and most respected provider of risk modeling software and consulting services. AIR founded the catastrophe modeling industry in 1987 and today models the risk from natural catastrophes and terrorism in more than 50 countries. More than 400 insurance, reinsurance, financial, corporate and government clients rely on AIR software and services for catastrophe risk management, insurance-linked securities, detailed site-specific wind and seismic engineering analyses, and property replacement cost valuation. AIR is a member of the ISO family of companies and is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.air-worldwide.com.

Rochdale Securities LLC

Website: www.rochdalesecurities.com

Since 1975, Rochdale Securities LLC has been providing brokerage services to institutional clients. Rochdale Securities LLC is recognized for its strong client relationships, high quality executions, comprehensive reporting and the ability to provide independent research to the institutional investment community. Due to our experience and organizational flexibility, we are able to develop relationships with clients that are more innovative and more responsive, so that we can best serve their needs. Rochdale Securities LLC provides competitive executions based on the expertise of our traders.

Historically, Rochdale Securities LLC has identified the highest quality independent research, adding value to our client's investment decision making process. Rochdale Securities LLC offers independent research without the conflicts of investment banking.

BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking

Website: www.bnpparibas.com

BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking is part of one of the most successful banking groups in the world today. BNP Paribas is one of only six banks among its peer group with a Standard & Poor’s credit rating of AA or higher, boasting an extensive banking network spanning 85 countries and serving 16,000 corporate and institutional clients worldwide.

BNP Paribas is a world leader in the Insurance-Linked Securities market, in which it has played an active role for over seven years. From our origins as an investment and proprietary trading group, we have developed into one of the principal arrangers of ILS transactions, boasting superlative distribution capabilities and consistently bringing new investors to transactions. Using BNP Paribas’ financial strength, we have also supported the ILS market by acting as collateral counterparty on over $2.9 billion of catastrophe bonds in both total return swap and triparty repo form.

“BNP Paribas’ extremely diversified business profile, favourable commercial performance, resilient revenue generation in most of its business lines, moderate risk appetite and limited relative exposure to the areas most at risk should allow the group to weather this crisis relatively well.”

Standard && Poor’s Research Update, 28 January 2009