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Chapter 12
Nonbank Financial Institutions
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Life Insurance Companies
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Regulated by the OSFI and Assuris (formerly
CompCorp)
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Demutualization
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Hold illiquid long-term assets
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Individual life insurance
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Permanent life (endowment insurance), temporary
life
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Group life insurance
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Annunities
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Property and Casualty Insurance
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Regulated by OSFI and PACICC
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Property Insurance covers loss of real property
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Casualty insurance protects against legal
liability exposure
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Reinsurance
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Credit Insurance
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Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
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Seller is required to make a payment to the holder
of the CDS if there is a credit event (i.e.
bankruptcy) of the firm’s credit rating
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Monoline Insurance
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Supply credit insurance directly
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Relative Shares of OFSI-Regulated Financial
Intermediary Assets
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The New Legislative Framework
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Government passed legislation reforming
regulatory framework.
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Demutualized life and health insurance
companies
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Allowed access to Canadian payments and
clearance systems
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Does not allow mergers involving large banks
and large demutualized life and health
insurance companies.
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Insurance Management
1. Screening
2. Risk-based premiums
3. Restrictive provisions
4. Prevention of fraud
5. Cancellation of insurance
6. Deductibles
7. Coinsurance
8. Limits on amounts of insurance
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Pension Funds
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Rapid growth: encouraged by tax policy
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Bigger role in stock market
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Problem of underfunding
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Private plans (RPPs)
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Public plans
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A. Social Security
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B. CPP and QPP
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Finance Companies
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Minimal regulation by provinces
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Rapid growth
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Three types:
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A. Sales finance companies
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B. Consumer finance companies
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C. Business finance companies
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Securities Market Operations
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Investment Banking
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Seasoned issues
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Underwriters
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Securities Brokers and Dealers
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Brokerage firms
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Organized Exchanges
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specialist
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Mutual Funds
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Sovereign wealth funds
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Institutional Investors
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Open-end vs. closed-end
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Load vs no-load
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Money Market Mutual Funds
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Hedge Funds
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds
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Private Equity Fund
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Venture Capital Funds
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Capital buyout funds
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Leveraged buyout (LBO)
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Carried interest
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Government Financial Intermediation
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Crown Finance Companies
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CMHC provides funds to the mortgage market by
borrowing from the federal government and the
private sector
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Government Sponsored Enterprises in the
United States (GSE)
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GNMA (“Ginnie Mae”)
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FNMA (“Fannie Mae”)
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FHLMC (“Freddie Mac”)