The regulatory unit that examines the financial strength of insurers' investments says in a new analysis that the industry will not be impacted by the collapse of the subprime mortgage market.
That finding by the Securities Valuation Office, a securities-rating arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, Mo., was published in the November 2007 SVO Research Quarterly.
According to the article written by SVO research analyst Dimitris Karapiperis, the industry has a "relatively modest exposure" to subprime-related investments of $42 billion.
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