Text Of Current Message On Conservator's Toll-Free Line: (866) 852-6746
10-10-2007
Hello,
Many investors have called asking when the Conservator will make the
next distribution.
As you are aware, the Future First fraud included the false
representation to you that the policy(ies) in which you were invested
were those of terminally ill people. The 'Ponzi" scheme perpetrated by
Future First depended upon the proceeds from death benefits to make
premium payments to keep all policies in force.
In time, insufficient
funds were realized because the viators were largely not terminally
ill. Therefore Future First could not keep up premium payments, and
the fraud collapsed. By the time the Conservator was appointed, more
than 5% of the policies had lapsed, and he became quickly aware that
he would have to borrow money to keep premium payments current and to
sell the portfolio of policies.
There was no purchaser who offered a single cash payment for the
entire portfolio. As many of you have read on the Conservator's
website, the purchase agreement entered into by the Conservator on
November 26, 2003 requires that the proceeds of the death benefits
from the matured policies be paid as follows: 50% to the purchaser to
facilitate premium payments, 49% to the Conservator for future
distribution to the investors, and 1% to the company that found the
buyer and arranged the purchase of the policies. The Court approved
this purchase agreement as the only reasonable offer. The alternative
would have been to allow the entire portfolio of policies to lapse.
The purchase agreement states that on the seventh anniversary of the
closing date of the sale
(November 26, 2010), the buyer will pay to the Conservator the
remaining balance of the
$34,900,000 purchase price, provided the buyer does not default on its
premium payment
obligations.
So far during 2007, only 38 of the 2,029 policies active at the
beginning of the year have matured. The Conservator deems it imprudent
to make a third distribution until a greater number of policies mature
and additional funds are received. This is entirely unpredictable. We
will certainly advise investors when a third distribution becomes
possible.