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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

No. 74: Life Partners—A New Fund-Raising Scheme that Borders on Extortion

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I wrote extensively in The Insurance Forum about Life Partners, Inc. (Waco, TX), an intermediary in the secondary market for life insurance...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

No. 73: Iowa and Nebraska—More on Frightening Accounting Rules

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In No. 71 posted November 6, 2014, I focused on a $1.837 billion parental guarantee that Iowa-based TLIC Riverwood Reinsurance, Inc. (Riverw...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

No. 72: More on Iowa's Frightening Insurance Accounting Rules

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In No. 71 posted November 6, I focused on a $1.837 billion parental guarantee that TLIC Riverwood Reinsurance, Inc. (Riverwood) received fro...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

No. 71: Iowa's Frightening Insurance Accounting Rules

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In a "parental guarantee," a parent company declares it will honor obligations of a subsidiary. The Iowa Insurance Division (Divis...
Friday, October 17, 2014

No. 70: Fiduciary Standard of Care—Rekindling the Debate

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A lengthy article in The New York Times on Sunday, October 12, 2014 may rekindle the debate over which practitioners in the financial se...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

No. 69: Indexed Universal Life—The Debate over Sales Illustrations

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A debate is in progress over sales illustrations for indexed universal life (IUL) policies. Here I review some background on illustrations a...
Monday, September 22, 2014

No. 68: TIAA, Moody's, and Surplus Notes

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Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), its affiliated and unrated College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), and its su...