HuffPost 2009 0602 – HuffPost – Liddy Letter: AIG Plans To Award Bonuses Even If Taken Over By US – [link] 2010 0327 – HuffPost – Fed E-Mails On AIG Show Disdain For Transparency – [link] 2010 0410 – HuffPost – The Times Story On Goldman’s Role in AIG’s Downfall Is More Damning When Placed In Context – [link]

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Kevin McGinn – AIG Kevin McGinn – Chief Credit Officer Kevin McGinn – AIG – Nero email – FCIC Interview (mp3) [Bonk:  Who did he tell? Any Documentation?] Bob Lewis FCIC Interview (mp3) – {Kevin told me he told them} 2007 1119 – email – AIG – Paul Narayan to Kevin McGinn – 3p (p2)…

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Consumer Buying Process Judy Faucett responded that people spend more time buying a microwave than they do an insurance policy. 1994-1, NAIC Proceedings The product is complex and confusing. The following factors must be considered in the rational selection of life insurance: (1) Amount of coverage needed. (2) Understanding of the basic workings of various…

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COP – Documents COP – Summary of Requests for Information from Goldman Sachs – 5p 2009 0324 – Letter – COP (Warren) to (DOTT) Geithner – 3p (A) COP – Congressional Oversight Panel – June Report – 11 Items 2010 0610 – COP – The AIG Rescue, Its Impact on Markets, and the Government’s Exit Strategy – 337p…

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Standardized Assumptions 2. Standardized Assumptions Tony Higgins (N.C.) asked the working group to consider projections into the future for only a few years of the non-guaranteed elements, and then projections further into the future of standardized assumptions or guarantees. Mr. Wright said this allows a company to show how its policy works without the problem…

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Best’s Review – WishList 1974 01 – Best’s Review – 3 E. J. Moorhead, “The Hart Hearings in Perspective,” Best’s Review, January, 1974, p. 16: – <WishList> “First is the massive ignorance of policyholders about their life insurance. It is hard to believe that people know as little about their life insurance property as the surveys…

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AIG – Press Releases 2008 0916 – AIG – Press Release – AIG Statement on Announcement By Federal Reserve Board of $85 Billion Secured Revolving Credit Facility: Addresses Liquidity Issues and Policyholder Concerns – 2p 2008 1110 – AIG – Press Release – AIG Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results: Consolidated Premiums and Other Considerations Totaled $21…

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2021 – IAIS – Application Paper on Resolution Powers and Planning 2021 – IAIS – Application Paper on Resolution Powers and Planning – 54p 2021 – IAIS – Resolution of public consultation comments on Application Paper on Resolution Powers and Planning, 09-Nov-20 to 06-Feb-21 – 73p 2021 – IAIS – Resolution of public consultation comments on Application Paper…

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Panic of 1907 1 Kerry A. Odell and Marc D. Weidenmier, “Real Shock, Monetary Aftershock: The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907,” J. Econ. Hist. 64, no. 4 (2004): 1002–1027. Indeed, the Federal Reserve arguably owes its creation, which followed the Panic of 1907, at least in part to the insurance industry.…

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Aggregation Method ICS – Insurance Capital Standards – IAIS Date? – NAIC – NAIC’s Interpretive Guidance on ICS Comparability Assessment Framework – 3p Group Capital Calculation (E) Working Group –  CIPR NAIC – Group Capital Calculation – [link] U.S. state insurance regulators have adopted a group capital calculation (GCC) for use in solvency monitoring activities. (p3) – The Aggregation Method…

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