Government Hearings – 2023 2023 0517 – GOV (Senate) – Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve: Lessons and Opportunities for Reform, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) banking.senate.gov/hearings/strengthening-accountability-at-the-federal-reserve-lessons-and-opportunities-for-reform youtube.com/watch?v=vEamkRmw6vI 2023 0919 – GOV (House) – A Holistic Review of Regulators: Regulatory Overreach and Economic Consequences [PDF-p, VIDEO-YouTube]  Hal Scott, Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems, Emeritus, Harvard Law…

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2020s – Newspapers 2022 0709 – Times of San Diego – Opinion: California Class-Action Lawyers Now Targeting Life Insurance Industry, by Tiger Joyce (President of the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) – [link] 2022 1007 – WSJ – Private Equity’s Pension-Plan Takeovers Face Backlash Some lawmakers say the transfer of pension liabilities to private equity-linked insurers puts…

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Project – 2023 – Market Analysis Procedures (D) Working Group 4. Possible NAIC Recommendations for Amending the Uniform Securities Act  a. At the present time, the NAIC, including the Securities and Insurance Regulation Task Force, is studying the many “new-life” insurance products that are being sold by approximately 30 insurance companies. Simultaneously, the NAIC is…

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Project – NAIC – Snippets – 2023 2023 – LIAC – NAIC –  my question Regulator Responses / Pic From NAIC Snippets 2014-2020 History NAIC, Legal Cases, SOA, Media 2023 0815 – LIAC – NAIC – 11p Birnbaum reiterated his longstanding concerns regarding illustrations. He said the Life Actuarial (A) Task Force proposed and the Life…

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Project – NAIC – Snippets – 2020 2020 2020 01-? – NAIC – Retirement Security, Conference Call –  Brenda Cude / Karroll Kitt – Presentation We want you to know that Financial Education is important, but that many other groups are better situated to design deliver and evaluate education than NAIC is.   We think NAIC’s…

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Mosten Investments LP v The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (Manulife Financial), 2021 SKCA 36 (CanLII) 2019 – Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan 2019 – LC – Mosten Investment v. Manufacturers Life – Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan  —  [BonkNote] canlii.org/en/sk/skqb/doc/2019/2019skqb76/2019skqb76.html#document Decision – 183p Citation: 2019 SKQB 76 Date:  2019 0315 Docket:  QBG 1597 of 2016 / QBG 1519 of…

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Archive.org – 2023 2007 – House – Committee on Financial Services 2007 0315 – H – LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS ON GOVERNMENT- SPONSORED ENTERPRISE (GSE) REFORM 2007 0425 – H – H.R. 698, THE INDUSTRIAL BANK HOLDING COMPANY ACT OF 2007 2007 0426 – H – CREDIT CARD PRACTICES: CURRENT CONSUMER AND REGULATORY 2007 0613 – H…

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2023 – VIDEO – Documentary – Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street 2023 – VIDEO-Documentary – Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street 2023 American true crime documentary series directed by Joe Berlinger and based in part on the 2021 book Madoff Talks by Jim Campbell. – wikipedia E1: Brochure / Fact Sheet 41:00 – Diana Henriques – NYT – David Kotz –  E3: Thierry…

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2022 – IAIS – Review of the IIM assessment Methodology iaisweb.org/2022/12/public-consultation-of-the-review-of-the-iim-assessment-methodology/ 2022 12 – IAIS – Public Consultation on the review of the Individual Insurer Monitoring (IIM) Assessment Methodology – 89p Public background session VIDEO – [YouTube-link] Powerpoint – 24p Comments – NAIC – 3p

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