WSJ - Wall Street Journal - WishList

  • [<WishList>: Bonk: What Newspaper is this from?] -  "State laws segregate the assets needed to protect policyholders within the highly regulated subsidiaries at AIG and if they were to fail, state guarantee funds exist to ensure claims are paid. Have Fed and Treasury staff . . . studied state . . . insurance regulatory schemes and deemed them inadequate?"
    • 2010 0202 - WSJ -  What I Learned at the AIG Meltdown: State Insurance Regulation Wasn’t the Problem, Eric Dinallo - [link] 
  • 1981 - SOA - The Future of Permanent Life Insurance (rsa81v7n36), Society of Actuaries - 22p
    •  <WishList - Wall Street Article> - Stanley B. Tulin:  The Wall Street Journal, in a back page article several weeks ago, discussed Universal Life Products, Variable Life and traditional permanent insurance - both participating and non-participating.
      • The Journal's comparisons showed the Universal and Variable Life products to great advantage.
      • Of course, a critical aspect of the illustrations - for both Universal and Variable - is the assumed rate of interest.
    • The Wall Street Journal article assumed a rate of approximately 11% for the Universal Life and Variable Life illustrations.
    • 2009 - Journal of Financial Planning - Life Insurance in Times of Uncertainty, by David M. Cordell and Thomas P. Langdon - 2p  
      • We have a yellowed Wall Street Journal article dated May 4, 1981, in which the introductory paragraph Of the article was: "Where can you get one of the highest tax-deferred or tax-free—yields on your savings? Try life insurance."
      • The author proceeded to discuss "'two products that truly advance the state of the art" and were "real breakthroughs for consumers." They were called -ahem- universal life and variable life. Yes, there really was a time when these two life insurance staples were exciting new products.
  • <WishList> - 1986 0202 - WSJ - 9. "Your Money Matters (Return on Universal Life Insurance Can Be a Lot Less Than Expected)," The Wall Street Journal, p. 37.
    • 1987 - AP- ARIA - The Rate of Return on Universal Life Insurance - 22p - JSTOR
  • <WishList> - 1988 0328 - WSJ - Your Money Matters, owners of universal life policies.
    • 2011 - Book - Agent Ethics and Responsibilities - Michael Lustig, ‎Denise Iona
      • On Monday, March 28, 1988, a “Wall Street Journal” column entitled Your Money Matters, told a story about disenchanted owners of universal life policies.
  • <WishList?> - 2008 1009 - WSJ - Further Loan To AIG Shows Fed Miscalculated Risks, By Liam Pleven, Carrick Mollenkamp and Craig Karmin - [link]
    • Doug Slape, Texas Insurance Commission
  • <WishList> - 2008 1030 - WSJ - Securities-Lending Sector Feels Credit Squeeze, by Karmin and Leslie Scism 
  • <WishList> - 2008 1031 - WSJ - Behind Fall, Risk Models Failed to Pass Real-WorId Test, byCarrie Mollenkamp, Serena Ng, Liam Pleven, and Randall Smith, <and/or 1103 2008> 
  • 78. AIG Investments senior executive and then-AIG Chief Investment Officer Win Neuger was instrumental in the decision.
    • <WishList> - As reported by the Wall Street Journal on February 5, 2009, "Mr. Neuger and Kevin McGinn, who has been AIG's chief credit officer since 2004, signed off on the proposal, agreeing in a memo that the guidelines didn't subject the [Program] portfolio to undue risk."

2010 0629 - LC - Transatlantic vs AIG - Affirmation of Anthony J. Albanese - 116p