A large disability reinsurer says it is eliminating about $400 million in debt.
UnumProvident Corp., Chattanooga, Tenn., plans to buy the debt and retire it while adjusting the interest rate paid on a total of $575 million in senior notes.
The notes, part of “adjustable conversion-rate equity security units” issued in May 2003, will pay an interest rate of 5.997% starting Feb. 15, UnumProvident says.