{"id":20651,"date":"2023-08-31T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2023\/08\/31\/12-fast-facts-about-annuity-issuers-graders\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:47:35","slug":"12-fast-facts-about-annuity-issuers-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2023\/08\/31\/12-fast-facts-about-annuity-issuers-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Fast Facts About Annuity Issuers&#8217; Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/791507432\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2022\/04\/2022-4-22-Volatility_Adobe-Stock_640x640_Sergey-Nivens.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2022\/04\/2022-4-22-Volatility_Adobe-Stock_640x640_Sergey-Nivens.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<h2>1. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decides who gets to assign the ratings.<\/h2>\n<p>The SEC has designated 10 organizations as &#8220;nationally recognized statistical rating organizations,&#8221; or NRSROs.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest four, and the ones the SOA institute team focuses on, are AM Best, Fitch Ratings, Moody&#8217;s Investors Service and S&amp;P Global Ratings.<\/p>\n<p>The others are DBRS, Demotech, Egan-Jones Ratings, HR Ratings de Mexico, Japan Credit Rating Agency and Kroll Bond Rating Agency.<\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi\/ALM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decides who gets to assign the ratings. The SEC has designated 10 organizations as &#8220;nationally recognized statistical rating organizations,&#8221; or NRSROs. The biggest four, and the ones&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/12-fast-facts-about-annuity-issuers-graders.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}