Patents Assigned to Guggenheim Partners, LLC
  • Patent number: 8489484
    Abstract: Methods for providing remainder interests with protection to a seller and mitigation of the potential consequences suffered by related financial instruments. The protected remainder interest financial instrument includes submitting a seller to underwriting to accurately determine the seller's remaining life expectancy, and purchasing the protected remainder interest of an illiquid asset from the seller leaving the seller with a life estate. The method includes a client system for displaying information related to the transaction and inputting information related to the seller, illiquid asset, and the buyer. The client system is used to create a request to create the protected remainder interest. A server system accepts the request, stores the information in memory, and creates the protected remainder interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lange, Jeffrey Lewis
  • Patent number: 8489485
    Abstract: A method and system for debt-to-asset-value balancing of a reverse mortgage benefiting both the lender and the borrower. Options and mechanisms are provided for equalizing borrower debt balance with appraised fixed assets of the reverse mortgage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lange, Jeffrey Lewis
  • Publication number: 20120265662
    Abstract: A method of creating a variable universal life anti-martingale immediate annuity (VULAMIA) including the steps of soliciting preferences from an annuitant for annuity income and timing of annuity income versus a risk of loss of an annuity purchase price from early death, determining an annuity cashflow start date and a rate of return to be paid on an annuity consideration premium upon death, structuring a variable universal life policy to act as a wrapper for a separate account used to purchase immediate annuities and a death benefit which provides the rate of return on the annuity consideration premium, receiving premium payments into a VULAMIA to purchase the variable universal life policy and the immediate annuities, reinvesting immediate annuity payments until a predetermined payout date; and at death of the annuitant, providing a death benefit and the predetermined rate of return on the annuity consideration premiums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: GUGGENHEIM PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Lange
  • Patent number: 8145509
    Abstract: A corporate owned life insurance product with death benefits (COLI-DB) that has no cash value and is minimally funded. The policy holder selects an election to mark to market accounting for life insurance. Thus, the COLI-DB has no cash surrender value. The net present value of the COLI-DB can be more than zero (and quite high) so there is no impact to net income and there may even be net income in the first year. The COLI-DB system may optimize returns by using new accounting rules in contrast to the traditional approach of COLI-CV, and returning death benefits through a captive to increase returns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Lange, Jeffrey M. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20100262438
    Abstract: A corporate owned life insurance product with death benefits (COLI-DB) that has no cash value and is minimally funded. The policy holder selects an election to mark to market accounting for life insurance. Thus, the COLI-DB has no cash surrender value. The net present value of the COLI-DB can be more than zero (and quite high) so there is no impact to net income and there may even be net income in the first year. The COLI-DB system may optimize returns by using new accounting rules in contrast to the traditional approach of COLI-CV, and returning death benefits through a captive to increase returns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Lange, Jeffrey M. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20090287510
    Abstract: A method for efficient first mortgage loans including the steps of identifying suitable borrowers for a marginally priced mortgage loan, determining an aggregate asset value of property owned by the suitable borrowers, determining a capital structure of the marginally priced mortgage loan for the respective property as between debt and equity, tranching the debt capital structure into a plurality of debt tranches, wherein lowest loan to value tranches have seniority over higher loan to value tranches, assigning each tranche an interest rate based upon a plurality of criteria including probability of default, correlation of default, and credit market conditions, creating a structured note which provides legal rights for each such tranche in a bankruptcy remote issuance entity and securitization or sale of such structured notes to investors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lange, Jeffrey Lewis
  • Publication number: 20090271223
    Abstract: A method for creating marginally priced reverse mortgage loans (MPRML) including the steps of identifying a borrower for a MPRML against a property owned by the borrower, determining an aggregate asset value of the property, determining a life expectancy, obtaining consent for a lender to own life insurance on the borrower, and determining whether the borrower can be issued life insurance. If the borrower can obtain life insurance, providing terms relatively better than if the borrower could not. If the borrower cannot obtain life insurance, providing the MPRML at terms relatively better than if the borrower did not apply. The method also determines a principal limit factor which defines a debt portion of a capital structure, determines the capital structure as between debt and equity, tranches the debt capital structure into debt tranches wherein a lowest loan to value tranche has seniority, and assigns each tranche an interest rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Lange, Jeffrey M. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20090271224
    Abstract: A method of creating a variable universal life anti-martingale immediate annuity (VULAMIA) including the steps of soliciting preferences from an annuitant for annuity income and timing of annuity income versus a risk of loss of an annuity purchase price from early death, determining an annuity cashflow start date and a rate of return to be paid on an annuity consideration premium upon death, structuring a variable universal life policy to act as a wrapper for a separate account used to purchase immediate annuities and a death benefit which provides the rate of return on the annuity consideration premium, receiving premium payments into a VULAMIA to purchase the variable universal life policy and the immediate annuities, reinvesting immediate annuity payments until a predetermined payout date; and at death of the annuitant, providing a death benefit and the predetermined rate of return on the annuity consideration premiums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: GUGGENHEIM PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Lange
  • Publication number: 20090106142
    Abstract: Methods for providing remainder interests with protection to a seller and mitigation of the potential consequences suffered by related financial instruments. The protected remainder interest financial instrument includes submitting a seller to underwriting to accurately determine the seller's remaining life expectancy, and purchasing the protected remainder interest of an illiquid asset from the seller leaving the seller with a life estate. The method includes a client system for displaying information related to the transaction and inputting information related to the seller, illiquid asset, and the buyer. The client system is used to create a request to create the protected remainder interest. A server system accepts the request, stores the information in memory, and creates the protected remainder interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Guggenheim Partners, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lange, Jeffrey Lewis