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2012 Statute



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40-2a28.Investment in asset-backed securities; conditions; definitions. (a) Any insurance company other than life organized under any law of this state may invest, by loans or otherwise, with the direction or approval of a majority of its board of directors or authorized committee thereof, any of its funds, or any part thereof, in asset-backed securities, subject to the following:

(1) To be an admitted asset under this section, an asset-backed security must, at the time of acquisition, be designated "1" or "2" by the national association of insurance commissioners in its most recently published valuations of securities manual or supplement thereto;

(2) the investment in any one issue of asset-backed securities shall not exceed 2% of the admitted assets of the investing insurance company as shown by its last annual report or a more recent quarterly financial statement filed with the commissioner.  Each issue designated as provided in paragraph (1) shall constitute a single issue regardless of any other obligations or securities issued by the same or any affiliated issuer; and

(3) the investing company's aggregate investment in asset-backed securities as provided in this section shall not exceed 20% of the admitted assets of such company, as shown by such company's last annual report as filed with the commissioner of insurance or a more recent quarterly financial statement as filed with the commissioner, on a form prescribed by the national association of insurance commissioners, within 45 days following the end of the calendar quarter to which the interim statement pertains.

(b) As used in this section:

(1) "Asset-backed security" means any security or other instrument representing or evidencing an interest in, a loan to, a participation in a loan to, or any other right to receive payments from a business entity of any type or form, which has as its primary business activity the acquisition and holding of financial assets, directly or through a trustee, for the benefit of such business entity's debt or equity holders;

(2) "financial asset" means a single asset or a pool of assets consisting of interest-bearing obligations or other contractual obligations representing or constituting the right to receive payment from the asset or pool of assets.

History: L. 1995, ch. 23, § 2; July 1.



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