Bloomberg News Bloomberg Businessweek 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] 2014 0731 – Bloomberg – The Insurance Industry Is Risky. Federal Regulation May Be the Answer You know what’s risky? The insurance industry, says a…

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HuffPost 2009 0602 – HuffPost – Liddy Letter: AIG Plans To Award Bonuses Even If Taken Over By US – [link] 2010 0327 – HuffPost – Fed E-Mails On AIG Show Disdain For Transparency – [link] 2010 0410 – HuffPost – The Times Story On Goldman’s Role in AIG’s Downfall Is More Damning When Placed In Context – [link]

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McClatchy <WishList> – A McClatchy analysis of the finances of 20 of AIG’s larger insurance subsidiaries at the time has found a much bleaker picture, however: 2010 0609 – therealnews.com – Did Bush Officials Hide Depths of AIG Problems?, by Greg Gordon – [link] 2010 0610 – COP – Report – The AIG Rescue, Its Impact on Markets, and…

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RStreet 2013 0612 – RStreet – The Myopia of Insurance Regulation, by R. .J. Lehmann – [link]

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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 1960s <WishList> – 1967 0905 – WSJ – Insurers Under Fire, Critics Say Practices of Industry Confuse Life Insurance Buyers 1980s <WishList> – 1986 0202 – WSJ – Your Money Matters: Return on Universal Life Insurance Can Be a Lot Less Than Expected – p. 37. 1987 -…

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Media – WishList <WishList> – Probe Magazine – Back Issues – by Halsey Josephson WSJ – Wall Street Journal – WishList 1990s – <WishList> <WishList> – 1980 1110 – Business Week – G.R. Dinney, Universal Life <WishList> – 1981 0914 – See The Changing Life Insurers, BUS. WK., Sept. 14, 1981, at 66-69 (discussing effects of…

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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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