Category Archives: Guaranteed Asset Protection Insurance
Smartphone App Boosts Loan Completion Rates
How the Smartphone Loan apppears to a member using an iPhone.
The 550 credit unions that subscribe to loanliner.com, CUNA Mutual Group’s online lending platform, allow members to manage their applications for consumer and home equity loans via the Web. Now, members can easily begin the lending process through their mobile devices with Smartphone Loan, a mobile version of loanliner.com launched by CUNA Mutual this year that’s made an impact on member loan application completion rates.
Insurance: Guarantee Me
Insurance: Guarantee Me
Registered reps say investment guarantees are spawning sales of insurance products, ranging from fixed and variable annuities to whole life insurance.
A June 2011 survey of over 1,000 Americans by Prudential Financial found that investors are willing to pay the insurance charges for investment and income guarantees. more than half the respondents say they have lost faith in the stock market and want to invest more conservatively.
Economic Analysis of Establishing Deposit Insurance System in China
【Abstract】 In the past 20 years, a series of successive outbreaks of the world’s financial crisis in global financial market has brought about new opportunities and challenges. the stability of the financial system impacts not only the country’s economic development but also the country’s economic security and financial sovereignty. Deposit insurance system, as a financial security system, together with the banking supervision, as well as the last resort of central bank, are considered as three pillars of the financial safety net. the deposit insurance system, which has experienced many financial crises in the test, has been proven to be an effective crisis management approach, so that an increasing number of countries have begun to study the establishment of, or improve the existing deposit insurance system. In China, with the deepening financial system reform, the establishment of deposit insurance system has become a major concern as both theoretical and practical issues.Deposit insurance system means that when the deposit-taking financial institutions are unable to pay debt, in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of creditors, maintain the stability of the financial system, a system is arranged inspiring by the forms of organization as the insurance system. the process is: based on the pay premiums by the commercial banks, once the insured institutions (e.g. banks) facing a crisis or bankrupt, it will be taken up by this insurance agency as a deposit to pay a certain limit deposits. the role of deposit insurance system is to protect the interests of small depositors, the insolvency of financial institutions to build a market exit mechanism, thus to enhance people’s confidence in the country’s financial system and maintain the stability of financial system. the Chinese government has always been to provide implicit deposit protection to the banking sector, the state actually assumed full responsibility for deposit insurance. China is the world’s yet to be implemented explicit deposit insurance system in countries GDP volume and the total assets of the financial system’s largest country. After the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the Chinese Central Bank had set up a special research team to study about deposit insurance system issues. At present, the state authorities are conducting preparatory work on the deposit insurance system and the legislative institution establishment.the implementation of any system is the pros and cons, so is the deposit insurance system. It is playing an active role, will inevitably bring about moral hazard, adverse selection and other issues. Moral hazard is the key to the success of effective implementation for deposit insurance system. if we can not clearly recognize the shortcomings and risks it implies in the design of a deposit insurance system, and explore a set of these defects that can effectively circumvent the system improvement program, combined with the actual design in line with China’s national conditions of deposit insurance system, then, rush to introduce a deposit insurance system not only can not play the role of stabilizing the financial system, but also the opposite may aggravate the financial system instability.To promote and guide the establishment and perfection of national deposit insurance system, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bank for International Settlements Financial Stability Forum and the International Association of Deposit Insurance, together with other international organizations and foreign experts and scholars, have studied the deposit insurance system and come up with a solid theoretical foundation of the national characteristics of the deposit insurance system, deposit insurance system in the operation of experiences and lessons learned from research, providing many general principles and recommendations.This thesis introduces the deposit insurance system, the emergence and development, and analysis of the deposit insurance system to establish the theoretical foundation for the establishment of deposit insurance based on game- analysis system, the reference in developed countries and emerging market economies (regions) establishing the maturity of the deposit insurance system experience, with reference to international organizations on the establishment of explicit deposit insurance system, norms and guidelines, and finally propose the establishment of explicit deposit insurance system in China’s financial system, as well as the basic framework.
Alabama’s Jefferson County Declares Biggest Muni Bankruptcy
November 11, 2011, 12:39 PM EST
by William Selway, Margaret Newkirk and Steven Church
(Adds market reaction under ‘Rare Occurrence’ subhead and history of bond deals under ‘Credit Crisis Victim’ subhead.)
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Jefferson County, Alabama, declared the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, capping a more than three-year saga that turned it into one of the biggest casualties of Wall Street’s credit crisis.
‘More investors are swinging towards traditional endowment products’
The type of product depends on the risk appetite and need of the investor. there is a high degree of volatility in the equity markets and that has meant a movement towards less riskier asset classes.
Mr T. R. Ramachandran, CEO & MD, Aviva India, in an interview with Business Line, discusses the various trends in insurance industry and hopes for favourable amendments to the final Direct Tax Code for the insurance industry.
Prudential Beefs Up Guaranteed Income Platform
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About a week ago, Prudential released preliminary survey results indicating that when shopping for retirement plans, consumers between the ages of 18 and 36 were more interested than those over age 45 in guaranteed income features. the company is leveraging these results with additional features, including security, to certain plans offered by Prudential Retirement.
If Wall Street Is So Smart, Why Hasn’t It Fixed the U.S. Mortgage Market?
Financial innovation is hot. Too hot perhaps, as some people think it helped sink the global economy in 2008. But bankers are stumped when it comes to getting government out of housing.
AIB partly compensated over £56m loss
The Irish Times – Wednesday, November 9, 2011
MARK HENNESSY, London Editor
AIB HAS been partly compensated by insurers for a £56 million loss incurred on more than £700 million worth of loans made to London-based property developers who are facing trial on fraud charges in London, a senior bank official has indicated.
Gap Downs – MATL, MET, MFC, MGA, MS
Direxion Daily Basic Materials Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA: MATL) fell -7.48%, to close at $23.00 and its overall traded volume was P shares during the last session with the total traded volume of E shares. MATL shares were trading within the range of $21.40-$23.76 while its opening price was $21.96. the stock has a 52-week range of $21.40-$23.76. the market capitalization of the company stands at $- and it has – outstanding shares.
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MARC has assigned an insurer financial strength of AA- on Malaysia’s national rating scale to Luxembourg-based Atlanticlux Lebensversicherung S.a. (ATL). ATL’s insurer financial strength rating incorporates its satisfactory operating performance and comfortable solvency position that is supported by its focus on low capital-intensity investment-linked life insurance business and significant reinsurance protection for mortality risks. Moderating rating considerations include the prospects of subdued investment-linked insurance sales under continued challenging market conditions, competition from larger and more established players in the investment-linked insurance sector in ATL’s key markets, and its lack of product diversification. the outlook on the rating is stable.
