Investing in Death

spiegel ^ | 09/01/2009 | By Christoph Pauly and Anne Seith in Frankfurt

[Flavius]

Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions manage complex funds that buy up Americans' life insurance policies and pay their premiums in return for their payouts. But angry German investors are finding that Americans aren't dying as quickly as expected -- and that only the bankers are making a buck.

[FlingWingFlyer]

But angry German investors are finding that Americans aren't dying as quickly as expected

That will all change with Obama's CommieCare.

[PAR35]

Can’t they come up with a final solution to that problem? Mexican flu, perhaps?

[Cicero]

Obama to the rescue.

[DesertRhino]

“But angry German investors are finding that Americans aren’t dying as quickly as expected”

Germans,, creating an industry that makes profits when people die earlier than expected? Oh,,, nevermind,,,