The Life Settlements Conference

Name

The Life Settlements Conference

Legal name

DealFlow Financial Products, Inc.

Website

https://lifesettlementsconference.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Industry Conference Services

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (561920)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Summits & Invitation-Only Forums (MPAGAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Training, Workshops & Certification Events (MPAGAGAJ), Corporate Meetings & Conferences (Internal/External Business Events) (MPAGAHAA)

Keywords

• Industry conference services
• Financial event production
• Life settlements market
• Alternative investment networking
• Professional conference events

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration: Revenue generated from attendee registrations for the annual conference event. The conference offers an Audio/Book Kit for $125 for those who cannot attend in person.
2. Corporate Sponsorships: Revenue from corporate sponsors seeking exposure during promotional campaign and conference. Benefits include pre-conference publicity, logo placement, exhibit space, online ad placement, and complimentary registrations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Life Settlements Conference produces an annual in-person industry conference in New York City for life settlements and viaticals market professionals, featuring expert panels, networking, and business development programming. A complementary Audio/Book Kit ($125) is sold online to professionals who cannot attend the live event, containing audio recordings, the event book & resource guide, and speaker presentations. Corporate sponsorship packages (Networking, Silver, Promotional tiers) provide exhibit space, logo placement, pre-conference publicity, online ads, and complimentary registrations to paying sponsors.

Product overview

The Life Settlements Conference is a single annual event (not a platform architecture) organized by DealFlow Events. The core offering is the in-person conference held on September 10, 2019 in New York City, featuring multiple panel discussions and presentations covering life settlements market outlook, underwriting technology, cost of insurance litigation, and capital markets transactions. The conference's companion product is the Conference Audio/Book Kit, a $125 recorded version of the event content available for purchase by those who did not attend in person. Sponsorship tiers (Networking Sponsor, Silver Sponsor, Promotional Sponsor) provide additional business relationship opportunities but are not separate product offerings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• The Life Settlements Conference 2019 Annual in-person industry conference delivering educational panel discussions, networking, and business development opportunities for professionals in the life settlements and viaticals market (investors, brokers, insurance experts, law firms, hedge funds, pension plans, accountants, private equity firms, and institutional investors).
• Conference Audio/Book Kit Recorded audio sessions, the Event Book & Resource Guide, and Speaker Presentations from The Life Settlements Conference, sold for $125 to professionals who could not attend the live event.

Quantifiable outcome

• Attendees surveyed after last year's event report it was among the best they have attended. Ever.
• +1 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core, minor and flagship.

• Holwell Shuster & GoldbergcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerNetworking Sponsor for The Life Settlements Conference 2019. Law firm specializing in high-stakes commercial litigation, including cost of insurance litigation against insurance carriers. Founded in 2012, approximately 60 lawyers handling complex commercial matters.
• RRBB Accountants + AdvisorsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSilver Sponsor of the conference. Full-service accounting, advisory and consulting firm located in central New Jersey with over 50 years in public accounting.
• Arent FoxminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPromotional Sponsor of the conference. Full-service law firm with capabilities relevant to life settlements industry including litigation and regulatory matters.
• DealFlow EventsflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent organization producing The Life Settlements Conference. DealFlow Financial Products, Inc. (d/b/a DealFlow Events) has produced over 200 conferences, seminars, and webcasts on financial topics over 16+ years. The Life Settlements Conference and DealFlow Events are trademarks of DealFlow Financial Products, Inc.
• TKP New York Conference CenterminorOthersVenue provider for The Life Settlements Conference 2019. Located at 109 West 39th Street, New York, NY 10018. Walking distance from Grand Central Terminal, Port Authority Bus Terminal, and Penn Station. Entire 2nd floor facility rented for the event.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Reuters Events: Large-scale financial-services and capital-markets events business operating within a much broader media portfolio — overlaps on audience (institutional finance) and sponsor pool, but at significantly larger scale and across many verticals.
• Bloomberg Live: Bloomberg's events business producing financial-industry summits and forums with similar institutional-investor targeting; differentiated by media-brand scale and integration with terminal/news ecosystem.
• SIFMA: Securities industry association that runs marquee capital-markets conferences; serves an overlapping institutional-investor audience but as an industry-association venue rather than a for-profit niche event.
• Marcus Evans Financial Events: Global conference producer with a deep portfolio of finance and investment summits — comparable format and sponsor model but much broader vertical coverage and larger event footprint.

Direct peers

• MoneyShow: Long-running producer of investor education conferences, symposiums, and webinars with similar sponsor + ticket monetization and educational-panel format aimed at financial professionals and serious investors.
• PEI Media (Private Equity International): Operates flagship alternative-investment conferences (e.g., PERE, SuperReturn, Investor Conferences) targeting institutional investors and GPs — directly overlapping with the conference's alternative-investor attendee base.
• Opal Financial Group (Opal Events): Operates invitation-only institutional-investor summits across alternative investments, insurance, and structured finance — closely matching the high-level, decision-maker format and sponsor economics of The Life Settlements Conference.
• IMN (Information Management Network): Runs specialized, sponsor-supported finance conferences (structured finance, securitization, capital markets) for institutional investors — same operating model, similar audience profile, and similar sponsor economics as The Life Settlements Conference.

Emerging players

• AlphaWeek: Events and content platform for the hedge fund and alternative-investment community — partial overlap on attendee segments and a similar content-plus-event go-to-market, but broader hedge-fund focus.

Others

• LISA (Life Insurance Settlement Association): Industry trade association for the life settlements market that runs its own member conferences. Comparable audience and subject matter but operated as a nonprofit membership body rather than a for-profit event company.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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