Detroit has reached a settlement
with bond insurers over the treatment of some bonds in the city's bankruptcy, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr told CNBC Wednesday.
This company took part in the bankruptcies in Detroit and Jefferson County in Alabama and worked
with bond insurers in Puerto Rico's debt.
The distressed power utility made a deal
with its bond insurers to borrow more money.
Puerto Rico's power authority, which supplies electricity to the island's 3.6 million people, made a $ 415 million debt payment that was due Wednesday after reaching a deal
with its bond insurers to borrow more money.
Not exact matches
Bond insurers with more than $ 1 billion at stake repeatedly argued for the sale of valuable art but dropped that plea and settled for much less.
Bondholders and
bond insurers argued that Stockton's refusal to demand pension concessions shows that it failed to negotiate in «good faith»
with creditors, a prerequisite for municipal bankruptcy.
Thus far, the EIB has raised $ 9 billion in green
bonds, financed partly
with investments from pension funds and
insurers.
This additional protection is provided under a surety
bond issued by the Customer Asset Protection Company (CAPCO), a licensed Vermont
insurer with an A + financial strength rating from Standard and Poor's.
«For Moody's [or Standard and Poor's] to put a
bond insurer on negative watch (indicating a rating cut was being considered) could have extremely negative ramifications» for the entire
bond insurance business, said David Merkel
with Hovde Capital Advisors in Washington, DC.
MBI, -0.58 % on Monday it seemed «disingenuous at best» that the
bond insurer asked the rating agency by email to destroy non-public information while telling the public it would work
with Fitch to keep a AAA rating.
Beginning
with the great recession we have seen yields of insured
bonds higher than un-insured
bonds as questions about the viability of the
insurers themselves were prominent worries in the market place.
That said, this is the type of environment that reveals which
insurers have been taking on too much risk
with marginal
bonds.
Most of the so - called inverted credit curves are concentrated in securities firms, banks and
bond insurers that reported more than $ 100 billion in losses on mortgages to borrowers
with poor credit.
Because
insurers invest their float in a combination of stocks and
bonds (usually 90 - 95 %
bonds and preferred stock and 5 - 10 % common stock, the allocation
with the highest low - risk returns), a play on
insurers is really a play on
bonds.
In an environment of breed discrimination, the breed identification of a dog can have serious consequences
with municipal authorities, animal shelters, landlords, and
insurers, all of which will compromise the
bond between a family and their dogs.
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With universal life, the
insurer separates the death benefit from the investment portion of the premiums, putting your investment dollars into its choice of
bonds, mortgages and money markets.
In most cases, you are required to lodge an FIR, place an advertisement in the newspapers and also provide the
insurer with an indemnity
bond on stamp paper.
With the money paid through premiums,
insurers invest in fixed component like corporate
bonds and varied component like stock market.
Guardian and Allstate, the largest publicly traded seller of U.S. auto coverage, are among
insurers seeking investments beyond
bonds with interest rates close to record lows.