Investments
Securities Lending – Index
Securities Lending – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ A AIG – Different Investment Strategies re: Mortgage Backed Securities – AIGFP vs AIG Securities Lending AIG – Securities Lending AIG – Securities Lending – Counterparties AIG – Securities Lending – Dinallo AIG – Securities Lending – Government Hearings AIG – Securities Lending – Insurance Companies AIG – Securities Lending…
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Commercial Paper We must understand that we no longer have any reasonable basis for making any assumptions whatever about the range within which interest rates will fluctuate. Financing the squeeze by issuing commercial paper is just about the most dangerous thing a life company can do. — Ernest J. Moorhead (Jack) – EJM 1981 01…
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Investments – Index ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ# A ABS – Asset-Backed Securities ABS – Asset-Backed Securities ABX Affiliate Transactions Assets Asset Management Back to top B Bonds Bond Lending Back to top C CDO – Collateralized Debt Obligation CDS Spreads CDS – Credit Default Swaps CDS – Credit Defaut Swaps – Insurance CLO – Collateralized Loan Obligation CMO…
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Municipal Bonds 2008 0312 – GOV (House) – Municipal Bond Turmoil: Impact On Cities, Towns, And States – [PDF-262p, VIDEO-?] 2012 0815 – FRB-NY – The Untold Story of Municipal Bond Defaults – [link] 2021 0709 – Moody’s – US municipal bond defaults and recoveries, 1970-2020 – 113p An interesting question arising in third-party guaranteed defaults is what…
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Bonds Bond Insurers Bond Lending Corporate Bonds Junk Bonds Municipal Bonds Private Placement Bonds NAIC – Troubled Company Working Group of the Examination Oversight (EX4) Task Force 1990-2, NAIC Proceedings Chair – Norman Koefoed, Chair (Ill); (p ) – The Chair notified the task force that a Non-Investment Bonds Working Group had been appointed to…
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CDS Spreads 2018 – JIR – CDS Spreads, Systemic Risk and Global Systemically Important Insurers Designations – 41p Geithner: Trial Tr. 1407:21 – 1408:9 (Geithner explaining that the CDS spread is an indication of the market’s perception of AIG’s default risk)).
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Company Investments (p20) – Life insurers are the single largest source of corporate bond financial, and hold approximately 18 percent of total U.S. corporate bonds. — Statement of Patrick S. Baird, Chief Executive Officer, Aegon USA, LLC, On Behalf of the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) 2009 0616 – GOV (House) – Systemic Risk and…
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General Accounts 1983 – SOA – Segmentation of Insurance Company General Accounts, Society of Actuaries – 38p New Money / Portfolio Money Investment Generation Method 5. A general account is a design feature that is generally available to purchasers of whole or universal life insurance whereby the general assets of the insurance company support the…
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Debt Issuance Global Debt Issuance 2019 – FRB-C – Working Paper, No. 2019-08, 2019 – Asymmetric Information, Dynamic Debt Issuance, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads, By Luca Benzoni, Lorenzo Garlappi, Robert S. Goldstein – [link]
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Securitization content.naic.org/cipr-topics/life-insurance-securitization The comment is regarding our discussion of structured transactions wherein securitization of policyholder loans was also mentioned. We at Prudential-Bache are still working on a structured transaction involving policyholder loans. — Dr. V. Michael Shante 1987 – SOA – New Investments and New Investment Strategies, Society of Actuaries – 48p The article discusses the…
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