Fitch: Dividend Capacity of U.S. Life Insurers Benefited from Revised NY Regulation
Based on Fitch's analysis of peer
In a typical insurance holding company structure in the
Despite the decline in dividend capacity for the broader life insurance sector, aggregate dividend capacity increased for 2016 for the 14 large, publicly held life insurance companies used in a related study of statutory interest coverage. However, the mean statutory interest coverage for this group is expected to decline to approximately 3.7 times (x) in 2016 from approximately 4.0x in 2015, as some companies experienced significant declines in coverage.
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2016 U.S. Life Insurance Statutory Dividend Capacity (Capacity Remains Strong Despite Small Decline)
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