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Life Insurance and the Question of Solvency

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I am not sure there are any serious issues confronting the life insurance industry these days, unless of course you consider solvency, liquidity, junk bonds, deteriorating mortgage and real estate portfolios, risk-based capital requirements, asset mix, separate accounts, credit risk, Congressional inquiries, shrinking surplus, demutualization and more.

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Curiale, S.R. (1993). Life Insurance and the Question of Solvency. In: Cummins, J.D., Lamm-Tennant, J. (eds) Financial Management of Life Insurance Companies. Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2208-5_1

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