Linda Lankowski 2023 0601 – NAIC – Life Actuarial (A) Task Force Attendees – Donna Claire, Linda Lankowski 2023 – AAA – Life Perspectives, Winter/Spring 2023, American Academy of Actuaries – [link] Donna Claire – Chair – Life Experience Committee Linda  Lankowski – Chair – PBR Implementation Work Group  Dave Sandberg – gave a life perspective…

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1991 – SOA – Illustrations, Society of Actuaries – 20p 1991 – SOA – Illustrations, Society of Actuaries  —  [BonkNote]  —  20p JUDY FAUCETT: We’re going to discuss the preliminary report of the Task Force for Research on Life Insurance Sales Illustrations. 1991-1992 – SOA – Final Report* of the Task Force for Research on Life Insurance Sales Illustrations,…

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Volatility Volatility – Walker v LSW  I think you really have to make sure that people understand volatility, whether you solve for a policy blowing up or values being halved. I think you have to catch people’s attention, and that is all to the good. —  George Coleman, Prudential, ACLI, TRG-Technical Resource Group for the NAIC…

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2009 1117 – FCIC – Hearing – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – Timothy Geithner – Closed Session 2009 1117 – FCIC – Hearing – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury – Closed Session  —  [BonkNote] 2009-11-17 FCIC staff audio tape of interview with Timothy Geithner, Department of the Treasury.mp3 [PDF-50p]…

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2008 Financial Crisis – ACLI 2008 1101 – ThinkAdvisor – Smoke and Mirrors?, By Marlene Y. Satter – [link] When ACLI and AIA issued their statements pushing for federal oversight, NAIC accused them of playing politics, reiterating that the state-regulated insurance companies that were part of AIG were sound and “are not the problem.” Further, NAIC…

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AIG – Seven – Insolvent Insurance Companies 2009 0807 – NYT – A.I.G. Posts Its First Quarterly Profit Since 2007, By Mary Williams Walsh – [link] 2010 0318 – GOV (House) – Insurance Holding Company Supervision, Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)  —  [BonkNote] —  [PDF-183p, VIDEO-?] (p19) – Ed ROYCE (R-CA) –  There is a lot of blame to…

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Credit Risk 1994 – SOA – Credit Risk Study, Society of Actuaries – 20p

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Mortgage Bonds 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 I was very interested to see Kin’s earlier work about the delinquencies versus the Frank Russell, because those of us who do a lot…

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National Surety Company 1934 – LR – Rehabilitation of the National Surety Company, The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 7 (May, 1934), pp. 1146-1156 (11 pages) 2016 – FRB – The resolution of a systemically important insurance company during the Great Depression [National Surety Company], by Jonathan Rose – 36p This paper explores the…

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