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- People’s United Financial Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Bob Ramsey - FBR Capital Markets. Bob Ramsey - FBR Capital Markets Philip, you said at the start of the call that, you believe we’re getting closer to finding an acquisition. Is that just because of the passing of time...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-16
- Greif Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 10/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Chris Manuel - Keybanc Capital Markets. Christopher Manuel - Keybanc Capital Markets A couple of questions for you; first let’s start with if I can, couple of special items through the quarter, the asset disposals you had, can you...
- Earnings calls 2009-12-10
- Management : Risk Standards 1-9
- The article gives the idea of risk standards 1 to 9. The risk standard 1 states that Fiduciary responsibilities should be defined in writing and acknowledged in writing by the parties responsible. The standard 2 says that the Primary and Manager Fiduciaries should approve formal written policies, which reflect their...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Insuritization of Investments
- The financial and insurance industries are in the process of convergence. While for the retail segment this has happened by combining the distribution channels of banking and insurance products especially life insurance, the convergence in the industrial area has taken the route of transferring insurance risks into the capital markets...
- White papers 2002-02-27
- Using the Capital Markets to Mitigate Insurance Risks
- This transaction demonstrates how capital markets can be used effectively to reduce insurance risk exposure. Noteholders, in return for an attractive yield, have purchased the risks of certain natural catastrophes (up to a maximum of US$200,000,000) associated with the Originator's property and construction portfolio for a period of three years....
- White papers 2000-10-11
- Summary of the 20 Risk Standards
- 20 risk standards have been summarized in this article. Some of the standards explained are: Acknowledgment of fiduciary responsibility, clearly defined organizational structure and key roles, consistent application of risk policies etc. All these have been discussed in detail. To know more, refer to the article.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Insurance Risk - Securitisation
- Convergence can be defined as the process of moving towards union or uniformity. But the true meaning is that two separate markets have started performing the same function. Initially driven by the risk transfer needs of the insurance industry, and the diversification benefits perceived by the capital markets, the convergence...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Crisis Counselor
- his paper examines the market for catastrophe event risk i.e., financial claims that are linked to losses associated with natural hazards, such as hurricanes and earthquakes. Risk management theory suggests protection by insurers and other corporations against the largest cat events is most valuable. We show, however, that historically most...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Disparity Between Pricing and Fundamentals : Temporary Or Permanent?
- Many factors have contributed to the wide disparity between the weak real estate space markets and strong capital markets in recent years. The most powerful and important forces have come from the capital markets, where historically low mortgage rates, investor sentiment, lower return expectations and structural changes specific to the...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Crisis in the Capital Markets Impacts German Life Insurance Companies
- The German life insurance market is broken down into two components — risk life insurance, which provides coverage in the case of death or injury, and capital life insurance, which operates like an interest-generating savings account to be used for retirement. In the past, insurers offered capital life insurance plans...
- White papers 2002-10-02
- Securistisation of Insurance Risk
- The insurance markets and capital markets have long been bedfellows. Insurance and reinsurance companies regularly use the capital markets to issue loans and raise equity. Also insurance companies both life and general have substantial funds to invest, and many have fund management operations that feature in the major league tables...
- White papers 1999-04-01
- U.S. Life Insurance Industry: Benchmarking 2002 Realized Capital Gains and Losses
- The well-documented performance of U.S. capital markets in 2002 presented many challenges for the investment portfolios of U.S. life insurance companies. Multidecade extremes in credit losses and interest rate levels were exhibited and joined the multiyear declines in equity prices to affect investment performance. As significant capital market investors and...
- White papers 2003-10-30
- Firm-Level Access to International Capital Markets: Evidence From Chilean Equities
- High growth, liquid Chilean firms have greater relative weights in U.S. equity portfolios, but the most important determinant of a firm's portfolio weight is whether it is listed on a U.S. exchange. Cross listing does not, however, appear to have permanent benefits: Weights in U.S. portfolios of firms that cross...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Terrorist Risk: Insurance Market Failures and Capital Market Solutions
- The apparent market failure is primarily the result of two factors: the reinsurance industry not fully recapitalizing after losses stemming from a series of extraordinary, catastrophic events and the difficulties inherent in evaluating or "pricing" terrorist risk. Whether the temporary Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 needs to be supplemented,...
- White papers 2004-01-31
- The Perspective of the Reinsurance and Capital Markets
- A broad range of corporate and financial players has become involved in the weather risk management market. This presentation is focused on three basic types of players in the weather risk management market: market makers energy companies and more recently bank, reinsurance companies, and investors (e.g. hedge funds). All of...
- White papers 2002-11-28
- Risk Transfer between Banks, Insurance Companies and Capital Markets: An Overview
- This article describes the interactions, which are effected primarily through securitizations and derivatives. In principle, firms can use risk-transfer markets to disperse risks, making them less vulnerable to particular regional, sectoral or market shocks. Greater inter-dependence, however, raises challenges for market participants and the authorities: in tracking the distribution of...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Testing Alternative Theories of Property Price-Trading Volume With Commercial Real Estate Market Data
- The significant price-trading volume correlation found in the residential property market presents a challenge to the rational expectation hypothesis. Existing theories account for this fact with either capital market imperfection (down-payment effect or loss-aversion consideration) or imperfect information search theoretic models. This paper employs data from both the sale and...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- The Road to Extinction: Commons With Capital Markets
- Competitive agents extract in continuous time from a commons. Capital market access allows them to both save and borrow against their extraction stream. When the commons asset grows more quickly than the privately stored one, multiple equilibrium is found for intermediate commons endowments. In the limit, as marginal extraction costs...
- White papers 2004-01-22
- Mature and Yet Imperfect: Real Estate Capital Market Arbitrage
- The familiar boom-and-bust pattern of the real estate market has been tempered recently by an increased amount of discipline administered by the capital markets, and by the debt markets in particular. Additionally, due to the emergence of the public REIT and CMBS markets in the 1990s, and the accompanying proliferation...
- White papers 2002-03-11
- Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities Versus Phased Withdrawal Plans
- Using a range of data consistent with the German experience, the paper evaluates several alternative designs for phased withdrawal strategies, allowing for endogenous asset allocation patterns, and also allowing the worker to make decisions both about when to retire and when to switch to an annuity. The paper shows that...
- White papers 2004-11-02
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