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- Prudential, Hartford, Other Life Insurers May Be Selling Away Their Future
- U.S. life insurance companies are asking for a federal bailout to prevent a capital crisis -- but they're also still pushing complex annuity guarantees that could threaten the industry’s viability for years to come. by Christopher Westfall
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- Banks Stumble Into Mutual-Fund Profits
- The credit crisis dumped billions in lucrative high-net worth, pension and retail mutual fund assets into the laps of U.S. banks as broker/dealers collapsed under the weight of subprime and structured credit losses. As a result, some of the biggest and most profitable names in investment management are now owned...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Credit Default Swaps are the Real Stress in Bank Tests
- Stress tests to be revealed Thursday will likely show that while subprime, corporate and commercial real estate loans are doing their fair share of tearing apart bank balance sheets, the real gremlin in the banking engine is the credit default swap, or CDS. Credit default swaps are...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Life Settlements Industry Next on the Chopping Block
- If you thought you could escape the global financial crisis by crossing to the great beyond, think again. The $6.4 billion life-settlement industry -â€" where firms purchase life insurance policies for a lump sum and then collect when the policyholder dies -- has been thrown into turmoil over the past...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
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