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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

No. 123: Surplus Notes—Another Dimension of a Bizarre Financial Instrument

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Readers of The Insurance Forum over the years, and readers of chapter 25 of my new book entitled The Insurance Forum: A Memoir , know I ta...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

No. 122: Risk-Based Capital—A Classic Example of the Perennial Confusion over the Denominator of the Ratio

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On October 13, 2015, MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) filed an 8-K (material event) report with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The report ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

No. 121: Cost-of-Insurance Increases in the News

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In 2003 I wrote extensively in The Insurance Forum about cost-of-insurance (COI) increases imposed by an operating subsidiary of Conseco, ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

No. 120: The Federal Insurance Office Expresses Concern about Principles-Based Reserving and Captive Reinsurance Transactions

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In September 2015, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued its Annual Report on the Insurance In...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

No. 119: Robert D. May, CLU—A Memorial Tribute

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Robert D. May, CLU, 1994 Robert D. May, CLU, of Bloomington, Indiana, died June 30, 2015, at age 88. Bob was in the life insurance busi...
Monday, September 28, 2015

No. 118: My Memoir about The Insurance Forum Is Now Available

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When I ended publication of The Insurance Forum at the end of 2013, I said one reason was my desire to write a memoir about my 40-year exp...
Monday, September 21, 2015

No. 117: Life Partners—A New Dimension of the Bankruptcy Case

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Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (LPHI), together with its operating subsidiaries, was an intermediary in the secondary market for life insuran...