All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Insurance & Risk Management

1.  The collapse of the leading monoline stocks, MBIA (MBI) and Ambac (ABK) have been cited as an important contributor to recent market turmoil. 2.  The stocks stage a recovery on rumors, generated by the NY Insurance Commissioner but now disavowed by him, that he was on the case and prepared...

Bond insurers will be hard pressed to survive mounting losses on CDOs and other securities that they guarante.  Egan-Jones estimates that Ambac losses may reach $4.3 billion.

Most accountants and financial advisors are going to have to face an IRS $200,000 fine for note reporting with the IRS. These plans are sold by most insurance agents.

This article suggests that it might be better to buy a life insurance policy with after tax dolloars instead of buying a retiremaent plan. There are many benefits to useing a life insurance policiy as a Roth alternative

The General Motors VEBA will not work. Based on the information that I have received, there is no way that the union will ever accumulate enough money to pay for the increasing cost of health insurance. Based on my projections the GM union VEBA will run out of money within twenty years....

This is a very important article that deals with the IRS crackdown on all retirement plans.

If this had been a mere subprime crisis, it would now be over. But it is not, and nor will it be over soon.  Any near-term rally in the bear market is likely to be led by U.S. companies that will get the biggest bang from the Federal Reserve's latest interest-rate cut. But this is exactly the part...

Implications: 1.Small investors will be unable to liquidate their cas position. 2.Customer withdrawals are at a significantly hugher level. 3.Regulator protection is crucial to success. 4.There is a very clear distinction between short term investors and long term investors in the marketplace. 5.Fears...

Reinsurers Grow With Discipline Learned From The Past

Implications: 1.Renewals of reinsurance contracts - buyers market. 2.A downward trend in rates is predicted for the U.S. and the European markets. 3.A hugh lack of catastrophic losses in many coverage areas caused a softening marketplace. 4.Complacency should not prevail in this business arena....