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Forbes 1979 09 – Forbes – V124 – 1778p – ia800603.us.archive.org/3/items/forbes124sepforb/forbes124sepforb.pdf Merrill Lynch Life Agency – Occidental Insurance companies advertise policies and ask you to pay the premiums with your charge card. Imag- ine, paying 18% a year interest on life insurance premiums! It was not life insurance as such that appealed to Pohlad, apparently,…

Retirement Income Journal linkedin.com/posts/kerry-pechter-1b05705_the-bermuda-triangles-1980s-roots-retirement-activity-7213634370916487168-h5bZ/ 2022 0603 – Retirement Income Journal – NAIC Reassures Congress on Private Equity-Led Insurers, By Kerry Pechter — [BonkNote] — [link]

Newspaperarchive.com newspaperarchive.com/ That figure said the American Council of Life Insurance was a distortion produced by invalid assumptions and sloppy calculations. The correct figure the council said, was 5.9 percent. Bad as that was the council was outraged by the assumption that whole life is a hybrjd of term and savings. “It is wholly life…

Schiff’s Insurance Observer insuranceobserver.com/ Index – 103p 2004 0616 – Schiff’s Insurance Observer – Insurance Regulator Sucks up to Big Insurers: Makes Public Data Secret, Volume 16, Number 8 – 4p The scandals uncovered by the Armstrong Committee were major news stories in 1905 and 1906. Schedule G – Company compensation data , Joseph Belth…

2000s – Newspapers 2004 0703 – The Hartford Courant – MassMutual Reaches Settlement – [link] MassMutual has agreed to settle long-standing class-action litigation that accused the company and its representatives of misleading sales practices. The settlement would cover owners of certain life and disability insurance policies between 1983 and 2003, and would resolve litigation filed in…

2010 0910 – WSJ – ‘Systemic Risk’ Stonewall: Some Bailout Questions the Fed Still Hasn’t Answered 2010 0910 – WSJ – ‘Systemic Risk’ Stonewall: Some bailout questions the Fed still hasn’t answered — [BonkNote] — [link] [Bonk: Who authored this article?] What could the New York Fed be hiding? For one thing, a clear explanation of…

Pulitzer Prize 2005 – 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. 2011 – .pulitzer.org/finalists/david-evans Finalist: David Evans of Bloomberg News For his revelations of how life insurance companies retained death benefits owed to…

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…

The Wizard of Lies – [Bernie Madoff] – Diana B. Henriques The Wizard of Lies – [Bernie Madoff], by Diana B. Henriques — [BonkNote] 2011 – Book – The Wizard of Lies – [Bernie Madoff], by Diana B. Henriques 2012 0311 – VIDEO – c-span.org/video/?304739-6/the-wizard-lies Diana Henriques talked about her book The Wizard of Lies:…

CQPress library.cqpress.com/ 1940s 1941 0321 – CQPress – Regulation of Insurance Company Investments – [link] 1949 0119 – CQPress – Insurance Investments and Economic Stability – [link] 1950s 1956 1010 – CQPress – Old-Age Annuities in Time of Inflation – [link] VALIC 1990s 1990 1221 – CQPress – Is Insurance Going the Way of the S & Ls?…