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Reuters 2008 0627 – Reuters – AIG To Lose Up To $5 Billion From Investments: Report – [link] 2008 0627 – Bloomberg – AIG to Absorb $5 Billion Loss on Securities Lending: Insurance Units Wrote Down $13B Tied To Mortgages, by Miles Weiss – [link-BonkNote] 2008 0916 – Reuters – Worried Singaporeans Rush to Redeem AIG Policies – [link] 2008 0916…
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WSJ – Wall Street Journal – WishList [<WishList>: Bonk: What Newspaper is this from?] – “State laws segregate the assets needed to protect policyholders within the highly regulated subsidiaries at AIG and if they were to fail, state guarantee funds exist to ensure claims are paid. Have Fed and Treasury staff . . . studied…
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IUL – Media 2012 – Peter Katt – aicpa – Index Universal Life Insurance: Beware of a Possible New Scam – 2p 2014 0921 (Updated) – WSJ – New York Probes Indexed Universal Life Sales Practices Benjamin Lawsky Concerned Insurance Companies Giving Optimistic Projections, By Leslie Scism – [link] 2014 0926 – WSJ – Scrutiny of…
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InsuranceNewsNet.com insurancenewsnet.com/ insurancenewsnet.com///John Hilton 2020 0120 – InsuranceNewsNet- Financial Literacy Education Not NAIC’s Bailiwick, Advocate Says, By John Hilton – [link] 2020 01 – NAIC – Retirement Security – Conference Call – Brenda Cude / Kitt Presentation “We think financial education is important, but that many other groups are better situated to design, deliver and evaluate education than…
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RoughNotes 2021 1201 – RoughNotes – Every Thing Old is New Again: Insurance Sector Loading Up On High-Risk Bonds, by Kevin P. Hennosy – [link] In the spring of 2022, U.S. Senator … Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) began asking important questions concerning the role of Private Equity Funds (PEFs) in the business of life insurance, including…
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Diana B. Henriques dianabhenriques.com/ nytimes.com/by/diana-b-henriques pulitzer.org/finalists/diana-b-henriques Finalist: Diana B. Henriques of The New York Times For her revelations that thousands of vulnerable American soldiers were exploited by some insurance companies, investment firms and lenders. Primerica 1990 0930 – NYT – Stubbing a Toe on Primerica, by Diana B. Henriques — [BonkNote] Military – Mid-2000s -…
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Press Media Media – Index Press Releases Financial regulators did not identify the problems occurring with sales to military members until they were brought to light by press reports for various reasons. (p11) 2005 11 – GAO – Financial Product Sales: Actions Needed to Better Protect Military Members, Government Accountability Office – 88p Linda M.…
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Websites ethicaledgeconsulting.com/ glenndaily.com/ kitces.com/ Morningstar PBS thekomisarscoop.com/ 2004 1117 – Cooking the Insurance Books: A Decade of Lax Regulation Lays Groundwork for Scandal, By Lucy Komisar CorpWatch – corpwatch.org/article/cooking-insurance-books White Coat Investor Youtube 2016 0316 – KITCES.com – How Life Insurance Loans Really Work And Why It’s Problematic To “Bank On Yourself” – [link]
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1950s – Newspapers 1950 1208 – NYT – Life Concerns Gird Against Atom Risk – [link] 1958 0422 – Ocala Star Banner – Boom in Life Insurance – [link]
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Magazines BusinessInsider Businessweek Changing Times Consumers Union Consumer Reports InsuranceJournal National Underwriter ThinkAdvisor 1982 05 – Compute: The Journal of Progressive Computing – 196p 2008 1123 – The New Yorker – Anatomy of a Meltdown: Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis, By John Cassidy 2009 0914 – The New Yorker – Eight Days the…
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