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Keith

Risk-based capital (RBC) solutions for insurance company equity investments in the general account

Trying to get a sense of whether the RBC issue is inhibiting insurance companies from investing in call-write strategies, which are ...

posted 1 month ago

Mitch (Song) H. 26 days ago • Edit • An alternative to call and write which may be more acceptable to insures would be "Buy and write". Buying dividend stocks would bring in ... »

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Jerry

Junk Bonds Feed a Hungry Market online.wsj.com

U.S. companies with junk credit ratings are piling into the debt markets at a record pace, seizing on some of the lowest borrowing costs in history and strong demand from investors craving higher returns.

posted 2 months ago

Robert S. P. F. 1 month ago • Edit • Hey, this can't be right! I'm talking about the chunk of text under the headline, "Junk Bonds Feed a Hungry Market." Apparently this ... »

Monica

Fort Washington Launches Insurance Investment Edge Webinar Series....

Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc. is holding the first installment of a quarterly webinar series called Insurance Investment ...

posted 7 months ago

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Alton

2012 Investment Seminar for Government Risk Pools, Sept 18-19, Washington, D.C.

We are planning this investment conference, focused on the investment issues and challenges faced by government risk pools. If you are ...

posted 1 month ago

Robert G. S. 1 month ago • Edit • Sage Advisory would be interested in sponsorship. Please send me info on the conference. ... »

Jerry

Fixed Income Roundup: The Rise of Alternative Analyses | Enterprising Investor blogs.cfainstitute.org

Jason Voss, CFA, is a content director at CFA Institute, where he focuses on fixed income, behavioral finance, corporate finance, and quantitative methods. He is the author of The Intuitive Investor, and he also ran a...

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Jerry

Gravity-defying corporate bonds raise bubble fears - FT.com | Capital Markets ft.com

More than €1tn of ECB funding has buoyed the market

posted 2 months ago

Jerry P. 2 months ago • Edit • The unintended consequences keep showing up! I don't think it ends soon, but worry about the bad ending you reference. »

Jerry

Bonds Add to Steep Losses After 30-Year Auction cnbc.com

Government debt prices added to sharp losses Wednesday, after a seemingly solid 30-year bond auction failed to take some of the sting out of trading.

posted 2 months ago

Jerry P. 2 months ago • Edit • I agree. I've said into 2017-18. It's going to have a variety of "unforeseen" consequences. »

Alton

Financial Repression Marches On...And Over Insurer Financials - Part I

It is the biggest investment challenge faced by insurers over the last thirty years...low rates for lower (negative real rates) are ...

Strategic Asset Alliance » Blog saai.com

posted 3 months ago

Jerry P. 3 months ago • Edit • And your name seems very familiar. I was at Century Life of America, Stein Roe and Farnham and gained 15 minutes of fame as Morningstar Fixed ... »

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Scott

How is your firm classifying hybrid securities on schedule D? SSAP 43R “LBaSS” seem to trap them as loan-backed securities, if so how do...

posted 5 months ago

Edward T. 5 months ago • Edit • There is an inherent concern with setting statutory guidance as a function of nomenclature as opposed to function. I expect that the SAPWG ... »

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Alton

How many Euro nations will officially default on their debt in 2012?

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Scott S. 5 months ago • Edit • I think Ed has got it right, won't officially default but will be restructured, hopefully in a fashion to avoid a default and adverse event for ... »

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Tony

Inflection point for insurers?

Hard to ignore the notable headlines over the past month or so as many major insurers begin to telegraph how they plan to adapt to the ...

posted 5 months ago

Rosemarie M. 5 months ago • Edit • At some point higher costs passed to the consumer reaches a tipping point in the relative "value" of the product. A more effective way is ... »

Bill

EFSF is too small. US debt default unlikely, but downgrade to AA looks increasingly likely. Debt ceiling will be raised a little or a...

posted 10 months ago

Alton C. 6 months ago • Edit • From Oldwick: Our friends at AM Best are stress testing insurers with varying Euro exposures. One wonders how accurate this might be when ... »

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Ronald

It's probably time to discuss the elephant in the room: how will sustained low interest rates impact insurers' investment portfolio?...

posted 9 months ago

Alex M. 6 months ago • Edit • And also with thanks to Alton, we now post the link to the Special Reports on the front page of IAM: http://tinyurl.com/64h5hkz »

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