Sentences with phrase «municipal bond insurance»

This is particularly true in an era where municipal bond insurance is less prevalent, and as such credit analysis has more value.

The Conference believes that analytical techniques that are widely - accepted by the capital markets, such as those used by the rating agencies to evaluate the financial stability of municipal bond insurance companies, should be drawn upon to estimate the appropriate subsidy cost.

These doubts caused the State of New York to threaten to break up some or all of these insurers, separating the low risk municipal bond insurance portfolios from other commitments in order to protect market access for thousands of state and local borrowers.

Now the City of Los Angeles is bringing a suit against the financial guarantors for forcing them to buy unnecessary municipal bond insurance.

As such, we believe that Berkshire Hathaway will likely quickly reach an 80 % -90 % market share of municipal bond insurance.

They will shrink and disappear, while new guarantors, who are all currently skeptical of doing much more than Municipal bond insurance, will grow, and make it impossible for the old guarantors to return, because they are much better capitalized.

First, the real value of the municipal bond insurance was not for credit enhancement.

Recently, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its exposure to the municipal bond insurance market.