Forecasters Wonder About Scratchy Credit Market Throat
November 22, 2018 by Allison Bell
The recent turmoil in the market for General Electric Co.’s bonds has started to remind investors that corporate borrowers sometimes fail to make their debt payments.
But, for now, life insurer stability trackers see tales of debt issuer problems as something interesting to think about, not as a symptom of a bad financial head cold, let alone anything more serious.
Analysts at S&P Global, Moody’s Investors Service, and the U.S. Treasury Department’s own Office for Financial Research have inspected life insurers’ tonsils in three new reports.
S&P Global
Deep Banerjee and other S&P analysts have made a data-driven case for something agents and brokers already know: publicly traded insurers and insurers controlled by private equity firms and other “alternative capital” providers tend to pursue strategies with more ups and downs than the policyholder-owned mutuals do.
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