The economic and financial turmoil that has enveloped the entire world has huge effects on life insurance companies. The effects can be heard on the walls of the investment companies who have relied on these insurers as a sound and consistent investment option. The signs are all over the place or are on the news and magazines and online press releases. One of the biggest effects is the drop in credit rankings for most of these insurers. Tough times are ahead for most the life insurance companies that cannot be eligible for TARP.

The ratings on these insurers are being lowered or cut down to reflect the what is going on with these companies as a result of the subprime fiasco and hobbled by the real estate investments and their commitment to paying off some costly retirement contracts. Some experts even suggested that before the end of the year their credit ratings will go down. It would make life harder for these life insurance companies to tackle their finances as most of the investors will now be very cautious to invest in these insurers. Needless to say they are not immune from the financial and economic meltdown.

This insurers or companies can apply for what is called as TARP- Troubled Asset Relief Program. But the problem with this is not all these life insurance companies can apply or eligible. The main sticking point about this is the federal government policy or the Treasury to exact said that whoever applies should be an affiliate of a bank or thrifts. The main reason for this is that if the insurer is a bank or thrift, they are regulated at the federal level. So they would be accountable and would be under these regulations from the federal and not the state regulations. The Treasury department having said that, has made some big insurers unable to qualify or unable to be eligible for the relief money. A lower credit rating for the insurers will mean less investors and that is the problem.

The fact of the matter is there are some very big insurers which I cannot name, that are not eligible to receive any relief money from the TARP program. The Troubled Asset Relief Program is indeed a very welcome sight for the financial industry but the problem was the qualifications which have made some insurers unable to avail of this excellent relief program. The question now is would some of these insurers that are on borrowed time are going to be get bought by the banks and thrifts at a bargain basement price? It will not be surprising to see some being merge or get bought by their bigger cousins and are banks or thrifts.

What lies ahead for the insurance industry is murky at best. With the economic and financial chaos or turmoil that is raging on and is still wagging its ugly tail. For life insurance companies that will have their credit rating lowered because of many effects of the financial and economic crisis, they have to find ways to get to the TARP program. Credit rating is just one their problems right now.

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