U.S. life insurers have taken a wide variety of approaches to reporting their exposure to low-rated mortgages.
Analysts in the Chicago office of Fitch Ratings have reported that finding in a summary of results from an analysis of the 10 U.S. life insurers with the largest known exposure to “non-prime residential mortgage-backed securities.”
The ratio of low-rated residential MBS exposure to statutory capital ranges from 16% to 227% at the companies studied, the Fitch analysts report.