AIG – SandBox justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/03/who-broke-aig-.html Why the misdirected coverage?  My guess is that we are seeing an unholy alliance of insurance regulators who would rather point the finger at unregulated credit derivatives, people who always favor more regulation as the answer to everything, and public officials who don’t want people to wonder whether other staid, boring…

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Sandbox – VIDEO – CSPAN 2006 – Shelby – our job vs states John D Johns – Impossible Task – Consumer Protection Sununu – New York Regulator – 1871 2005 1117 – GOV (Senate) – A Review of the GAO Report on the Sale of Financial Products to Military Personnel, Richard Shelby (R-AL)  —  [BonkNote]…

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2008 Financial Crisis – YPFS – Lessons Learned YPFS Lessons Learned Oral History Project – [link] One important lesson of the recent crisis is that as financial products and services proliferate and become more complex, they often fall through the regulatory cracks. (p16) — Testimony of Ann Yerger, Executive Director – Council of Institutional Investors -…

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ICS – Insurance Capital Standards – IAIS 2015 – IAIS – IAIS Capital-related Stakeholder Meeting – 83p Feedback from 2014 field testing Mainly concerns with volatility and harm to the long term nature of insurance business Additional feedback received from industry Long duration discount rates should not be extrapolated from extremely limited tenors Use more stable…

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Eyes Terri Vaughan (NAIC CEO):  So it is a very collaborative system, and I will say it has not always been that way. This is something that has taken us years to get to. And the NAIC has staff support that helps to make sure that that collaboration occurs when it needs to occur. 2011 0914…

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Market Market – Index NAIC Market regulation handbook – combines information from the Market Conduct Examiners Handbook and the Market Analysis Handbook 

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Paradigm 1980 – AP – Models in Insurance Paradigms Puzzles  Communications and Revolutions, William S. Jewell – 128p It is a distinct privilege and a personal pleasure to address the 21st ICA on the topic of “Generalized Models of the Insurance Business”.   As I read through the 42 papers offered on this topic, I…

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Relationships Contractual Relationship Employer-Employee Relationship Principal-Agent Relationship Special Relationship

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Regulation – Criticism But, meanwhile, the NAIC is failing, and the states, in many ways. The NAIC has failed to do anything about unsuitable sales of insurance in any line of insurance. They haven’t fixed the marketconduct mess the GAO has recently commented upon.  (p23) – – J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation…

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SB – IAIS 382. In 2015 Field Testing, lapse or persistency changes due to changes in market conditions were addressed under Market risk. Although the effect from market changes may be experienced through lapses, increases in coverage or unexpected persistence, the risk driver for many such changes is due to market changes. For instance, in…

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