New York Life Global Funding - Irish Stock Exchange
New York Life Global Funding - Irish Stock Exchange
New York Life Global Funding - Irish Stock Exchange
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guarantee is remote. This includes related party guarantees, except when the transaction is considered an<br />
“unlimited guarantee,” such as a rating agency requirement to provide a commitment to support a<br />
subsidiary, or a guarantee made on behalf of a wholly owned subsidiary. The guidance also requires new<br />
disclosures for the reporting entity’s guarantees. This guidance applies to all guarantees issued and<br />
outstanding as of December 31, 2011. The Company’s adoption of this guidance effective December 31,<br />
2011 resulted in a $4 million reduction to Statutory Surplus that was recorded as a change in accounting<br />
principle.<br />
During 2010, the NYSDFS issued Circular Letter No. 11 (2010), dated August 6, 2010, as well as the<br />
Seventh Amendment to Regulation No. 172, Financial Statement Filings and Accounting Practices and<br />
Procedures (“Reg. 172”), dated December 9, 2010. Circular Letter No.11 clarified the accounting for<br />
deferred premium assets when reinsurance is involved. Reg. 172 prescribed the establishment of an<br />
admitted unearned reinsurance premium asset. The associated $135 million decrease in the deferred<br />
premium asset and loading and the additional $51 million unearned reinsurance premium asset replaced a<br />
$23 million reinsurance reserve credit adjustment that was made for December 31, 2006 and later<br />
reporting dates in response to an industry-wide reinsurance credit treatment proposed by the California<br />
Insurance Department. The net impact of these changes resulted in a direct decrease to Statutory Surplus<br />
of $39 million, net of taxes, that was recorded as a change in accounting principle.<br />
Discontinued Operations<br />
On October 26, 2010, NYL Enterprises entered into a definitive agreement (“the Share Purchase<br />
Agreement”) to sell its South Korea and Hong Kong subsidiaries to ACE INA International Holdings,<br />
Ltd. The sale of South Korea closed on February 1, 2011 and the sale of Hong Kong closed on April 1,<br />
2011.<br />
On January 7, 2011, the Company announced definitive agreements with its Chinese joint venture partner<br />
Qingdao Haier Investment & Development Company Limited and Japanese insurer Meiji Yasuda <strong>Life</strong><br />
Insurance Company to sell the Company’s ownership stake in Haier <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Insurance Company<br />
Limited (“HAIER”), the joint venture life insurance company formed between the Company and Qingdao<br />
Haier Investment & Development Company Limited in 2002. The sale closed on January 28, 2011.<br />
On February 17, 2011, the Company announced a definitive agreement between NYL Enterprises and the<br />
Company's Thai affiliate (collectively "the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Companies") and Siam Commercial Bank<br />
Public Company Limited ("SCB") to sell the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Companies' ownership stake in Siam<br />
Commercial <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Insurance Public Company Limited, a joint venture life insurance company<br />
formed between the <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> <strong>Life</strong> Companies and SCB in 2000. The sale closed on March 17, 2011.<br />
<strong>New</strong> Accounting Pronouncements<br />
In October 2010, the NAIC revised guidance pertaining to disclosure of withdrawal characteristics. These<br />
revisions expand the disclosure requirements for annuity actuarial reserves and deposit liabilities by<br />
withdrawal characteristics in accordance with the following categories: general account, separate account<br />
with guarantees, separate account nonguaranteed and the total. This guidance which was effective January<br />
1, 2011 had no financial impact on the Company. The required disclosures have been incorporated in<br />
Note 8 – Insurance Liabilities.<br />
In October 2010, the NAIC modified the definition of loan-backed and structured securities included in<br />
SSAP No. 43R, “Loan-Backed and Structured Securities,” (“SSAP 43R”) an amendment of SSAP No.<br />
43, “Loan-Backed and Structured Securities”, replacing SSAP No. 98, “Treatment of Cash Flows When<br />
Quantifying Changes in Valuation and Impairments, an Amendment of SSAP No. 43-Loan-Backed and<br />
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