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Life Insurance, Number of Issuing Carriers

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Life Insurance, Policies Issued

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Line Of Credit Facility Amortization Percentage

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Line Of Credit Facility Covenant Terms Loan To Value Ratio

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Line Of Credit Facility Percentage Of Remaining Outstanding Balance

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Structured Settlements, Fair Value

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Yield maintenance provision.

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Indicates, if estimable, the approximate extent to which the proceeds from liquidation of any assets held either as collateral or by third parties would be expected to cover the maximum potential amount of future payments under the guarantee or each group of similar guarantees.

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Fair value amount of life settlement contracts accounted for under the fair value method.

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Number of life settlement contracts accounted for under the fair value method.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Fair value portion of contractual arrangement with a lender under which borrowings can be made up to a specific amount at any point in time.

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Actuarially determined death rate of policyholders, which is included in determining the amount of the specified guaranteed benefit obligation as of the balance sheet date.

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The average discount rate applied to insurance contracts to determine future policy benefits to be paid to or on behalf of policyholders.

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