Vishaal B. Bhuyan is the managing director of financial advisory firm VB Bhuyan & Co. and a financial author.

Bhuyan's primary focus is on longevity

Longevity

The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography or known as "long life", especially when it concerns someone or something lasting longer than expected ....

/mortality risk. Bhuyan is the editor and co-author of Life Markets: Trading Longevity & Mortality Risk with Life Settlements & Linked Securities and Reverse Mortgages & Linked Securities: A Guide to Risk, Pricing & Regulation, as well as the forthcoming The Esoteric Investor.

Life Markets, his first publication, was the first text covering the "life-linked" asset class (including viatical settlement

Viatical settlement

A viatical settlement is the sale of a life insurance policy by the policy owner before the policy matures. Such a sale, at a price discounted from the face amount of the policy but usually in excess of the premiums paid or current cash surrender value, provides the seller an immediate cash...

s and the risks of longer lives to pension

Pension

In general, a pension is an arrangement to provide people with an income when they are no longer earning a regular income from employment. Pensions should not be confused with severance pay; the former is paid in regular installments, while the latter is paid in one lump sum.The terms retirement...

 and Social Security

Social Security (United States)

In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program.The original Social Security Act and the current version of the Act, as amended encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs...

 funds and reinsurance

Reinsurance

Reinsurance is insurance that is purchased by an insurance company from another insurance company as a means of risk management...

 companies).

Bhuyan attended The Shipley School

The Shipley School

The Shipley School is a coeducational, independent, college-preparatory day school with approximately 835 students in pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade...

 in Bryn Mawr, PA and graduated from The University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a degree in history and sociology.

External links

• Martin, Michael. undated at vbbhuyan.com, Trader Monthly
  Trader Monthly
  Trader Monthly was a lifestyle magazine for financial traders founded by Magnus Greaves, edited by Randall Lane, and chaired by Jim Dunning under the company Doubledown Media. The target audience of Trader Monthly was the financial community with an average income at or exceeding U.S.$ 450,000...
  
  magazine, "Life Force"
• LISA Webinar - Vishaal B. Bhuyan