Real estate relief: although troubled real estate assets are a headache, insurers can alleviate the pain by developing successful asset-management and disposition programs
Article Abstract:
Real estate only accounts for approximately 3% of life insurance assets, but delinquencies on insurers' commercial mortgage loans have increased to 7.37%. As such, insurers run the risk of running afoul of new NAIC capital requirements and GAAP rules for reporting foreclosure. Solutions, short of continuing to carry assets, include selling assets in bulk, spinning off troubled assets as separate corporate entities, and securitization.
Publication Name: Best's Review Property-Casualty Insurance Edition
Subject: Insurance
ISSN: 0005-9714
Year: 1993
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A level playing field; an increase in the excise tax would place domestic reinsurers on a more level playing field with their foreign competitors
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The proposed Foreign Income Tax Rationalization and Simplification Act of 1992 will give domestic reinsurers an equal footing with foreign reinsurers who are located in under-regulated areas where no corporate taxes exist. Unlike the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which taxed domestic reinsurers, the proposed legislation will effectively tax alien reinsurers that are taxed less than 50% of the US tax rate.
Publication Name: Best's Review Property-Casualty Insurance Edition
Subject: Insurance
ISSN: 0005-9714
Year: 1993
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