Questions from Financial Markets

Q: What are the main assets of life insurance companies? Identify the

What are the main assets of life insurance companies? Identify the main categories. What is the main use of funds by life insurance companies?

Q: How do insurance companies finance the real estate market?

How do insurance companies finance the real estate market?

Q: What is a policy loan? When is it popular? Why

What is a policy loan? When is it popular? Why?

Q: How do insurance companies manage credit risk and liquidity risk?

How do insurance companies manage credit risk and liquidity risk?

Q: Explain the general difference between the portfolio composition of private pension funds

Explain the general difference between the portfolio composition of private pension funds and public pension funds.

Q: What is the main purpose of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (

What is the main purpose of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC)?

Q: Explain how ERISA affects employees who change employers.

Explain how ERISA affects employees who change employers.

Q: The value of the dollar is monitored by bond market participants over

The value of the dollar is monitored by bond market participants over time. a. Explain why expectations of a weak dollar could reduce bond prices in the U.S. b. On some occasions, news of the dollar...

Q: What type of general guidelines may be specified for a trust that

What type of general guidelines may be specified for a trust that is managing a pension fund?

Q: Explain why interest rates changed as they did over the past year

Explain why interest rates changed as they did over the past year.