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• 7 Best Annuities to Guarantee Income for Life

  BNET - 2009-12-08

  Receiving a monthly check from the day you retire until the day you die sounds mighty appealing. But signing up for an immediate annuity also means locking up your money with an insurer for decades. How can you be certain the company will still be around? Here are seven of...

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• S&P Maintains Negative Outlook on Health Insurance

  BNET - 2009-06-02

  Standard & Poor’s is maintaining its negative outlook on the health insurance industry, according to an article by two S&P analysts in Business Week. The two main reasons are the continuing deterioration of the economy, which is increasing unemployment and the associated loss of insurance, and the uncertainties engendered by...

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• Wilmington Funds to Participate in New Money Market Guarantee Program

  - 2008-10-03

  Insurance Will Provide Additional Reassurance to Shareholders During Period of Market Volatility WILMINGTON, Del. -- Wilmington Trust announced today that the Board of Trustees of its mutual fund family, the Wilmington Funds, authorized participation in the U.S. Treasury Department's new Temporary Money Market Guarantee Program. The voluntary program,...

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• ACA bonds downgraded to 'junk' status by S&P

  - 2007-12-20

  NEW YORK -- A major insurer of bonds was downgraded to "junk" status on Wednesday, a move that could potentially cost banks and local governments billions of dollars. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's slashed its credit rating for bond insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. to a non-investment...

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• S&P event draws 650.(News)(Standard & Poor's Corp.)(Brief article)

  - 2007-06-11

  Byline: Rupal Parekh NEW YORK-Attendance held steady for Standard & Poor's Corp.'s annual insurance industry conference. Approximately 650 attendees gathered June 3-5 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. This year's conference theme was &qu Byline: Rupal Parekh ...

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• S&P launches standardized capital model.(Industry News)(Standard & Poor's Corp.)(Brief article)

  - 2007-06-01

  NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. has released an enhanced insurance risk-based capital model for life, annuity, property/casualty, health insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide. According to New York-based S&P, the globally consisten NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. has released an enhanced insurance risk-based capital...

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• S&P revises insurer capital adequacy model; Balance sheet needs may increase for some, agency says.(News)(Standard & Poor's Corp.)

  - 2006-11-27

  Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp.'s release this month of a revamped insurance capital model for global insurers and reinsurers could place added burdens on certain property/casualty insurers, while removing burdens from so Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Standard...

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• S&P insurance conference draws record attendance.(conferences of Standard & Poor Corp)(Brief article)

  - 2006-06-12

  More than 600 industry executives packed into New York's Grand Hyatt hotel June 5-6 for Standard & Poor's Corp.'s annual insurance conference, marking a record attendance for the event. The theme of the conference was "Rethinking Risk.'' More than 600 industry executives...

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• Outlook 'stable' for P/C insurers; Pricing discipline, solid results help industry.(News)

  - 2006-06-12

  Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW YORK-Ratings outlooks for both the commercial property/casualty insurance and global reinsurance industries are currently stable, analysts from Standard & Poor's Corp. said last week. The analysts, who were speaking Byline: RUPAL PAREKH NEW...

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• Old Mutual Financial Network Introduces HeritageMaster Single Premium Equity Indexed Universal Life

  - 2005-08-09

  BALTIMORE -- Old Mutual Financial Network OMFN, through Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Company, introduces an exciting new product that can be offered through both the Life and Annuity sales distribution channels. HeritageMaster is a single premium, equity indexed universal life insurance product that offers consumers peace of mind, favorable...

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