1919 – INDIVIDUAL RESERVES IN LIFE INSURANCE, By H. W. BUTTOLPH 1919 – The Record, Volumes 7-8, By American Institute of Actuaries – 649p (GooglePlay) MR. FAIRLIE: I have read with a great deal of interest Mr. Buttolph’s paper on ” Individual Reserves in Life Insurance.” With much of what he says I am in…

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Universal Life – Market Share As of 2012, 40.0 percent of the industry’s aggregate life insurance reserves and 12.5 percent of its total reserves were for universal life insurance (see table 1). It is the most popular insurance product. 2013 – FRB-C – The Sensitivity of Life Insurance Firms to Interest Rate Changes – [link]

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PWG – President’s Working Group PWG-FM – President’s Working Group on Financial Market PWG-S – President’s Working Group on Supervision 1999 0428 – Report – PWG-FM / President’s Working Group on Financial Markets – Hedge Funds, Leverage, and the Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management – [PDF-140p] 1999 11 – PWG-FM / President’s Working Group on Financial…

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UM – Academics (p7) – There were 6,118 insurers in the U.S. (including territories) in 2014, including 2,583 P-C insurers, 1,752 life-health (L-H) insurers, and 1,783 other insurers and related agencies.4 Given the objective to gauge the service quality of insurers by using the volume of consumer complaints, our analysis focuses on the P-C insurers.…

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Prudential – Legal Cases 1990s – 1995 – LC – The Prudential Insurance Company of America Sales Practices Litigation – United States District Court, D. New Jersey  — [BonkNote] 95-cv-0470 911 F. Supp. 148 (1995) MDL No. 1061. – United States District Court, D. New Jersey. – December 19, 1995. Daniel and Mary Alice Mathias…

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Prudential – Vanishing Premium 1997 – LC – In re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am. Sales Practices Litig., 962 F. Supp. 450, 525 (D.N.J. 1997) (discussing the vanishing premium, improper replacement (“churning”), and deceptive investment scheme claims) 1998 – LC – In re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am. Sales Practices Litig., 148 F.3d 283 (3d…

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Rating – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# A AIG – AM Best AIG – Rating Agencies AIG – Rating Agencies – Downgrades – Triggers Back to top C Credit Ratings Credit Ratings – Goverment Hearings Back to top M Moody’s Back to top R Rating Agencies Rating – Index Back to top S Standard and Poor’s Back to…

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Genetic Testing FROM THE FLOOR: I, for one, am willing to question that broad consensus. Mr. Jermyn, you mentioned the prospect of genetic testing, which theoretically could classify a great number of people or at least certainly a fair number of people who are currently substandard as uninsurable. How do you reconcile that with the…

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Surety 1927 – AP – The Guarantee of Mortgage Bonds by Surety Companies, by Edward L. McKenna, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Insurance, Wharton School of Finance and  Commerce – 7p documents.theblackvault.com/documents/jfk/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Nov17-2017/docid-32329636.pdf 1961 04 – Summit Fidelity and Surety Company is sold to Milwaukee group for mortgage guarantee. Senator Huey Long (D-LA) – I did not…

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Think Tanks YouTube – Webinar: British think tanks after the 2008 global financial crisis – [link]

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