1. 2007-08 Financial Crisis: US and UK Financial Markets
... more exposed to interest rate dangers because they maintain large portfolios of bonds, which values can decline once interest rates rise. Nevertheless, they are very exposed to market and credit risks because of large investments into mortgages, corporate debt securities, real estate and stocks. During the crisis many insurance companies in US and UK like AIG, State Farm Group, Progressive Insurance ... . Public PFs is administrated by local governments or state while Private PFs is administrated by private corporations like insurance companies (Saunders and Cornett, 2012). Just like ins...
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