Reinvesting After the Crisis: Changes in the Fixed-Income Portfolios of Life Insurers

Andy Polacek

Chicago Fed Letter, 2018, No 390

Abstract: The years following the Great Recession presented a unique set of challenges for life insurers even as the U.S. economic recovery began to gain momentum. Between the financial crisis in 2008 and the end of 2016, life insurers? policyholder liabilities grew 25%, from $2.6 trillion to $3.2 trillion, while their preferred investment habitat, the fixed-income securities market (excluding Treasury securities), grew by only 3%, from $22.0 trillion to $22.1 trillion.

Keywords: Investment; life insurance; fixed-income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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