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Note 14 - Statutory Information (Notes) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Statutory Information [Abstract] |
Statutory Information | Statutory Information We prepare our statutory financial statements in accordance with the accounting practices required or permitted, if applicable, by the insurance departments of the respective states of domicile of our insurance subsidiaries. Required statutory accounting practices include a variety of publications of the NAIC as well as state laws, regulations and general administrative rules. In addition, insurance departments have the right to permit other specific practices that may deviate from prescribed practices. As of September 30, 2014, our use of any prescribed or permitted statutory accounting practices did not result in reported statutory surplus or risk-based capital being significantly different from what would have been reported had NAIC statutory accounting practices been followed. State insurance regulators impose various capital requirements on our insurance subsidiaries. These include Risk-to-capital, risk-based capital measures and surplus requirements that limit the amount of insurance that each of our insurance subsidiaries may write. Our failure to maintain adequate levels of capital could lead to intervention by the various insurance regulatory authorities, which could materially and adversely affect our business, business prospects and financial condition. Radian Group serves as the holding company for our insurance subsidiaries, through which we conduct the business of our mortgage insurance and financial guaranty business segments. These insurance subsidiaries are subject to comprehensive, detailed regulation by the insurance departments in the various states where our insurance subsidiaries are domiciled or licensed to transact business. Insurance laws vary from state to state, but generally grant broad supervisory powers to state agencies or officials to examine insurance companies and enforce rules or exercise discretion affecting almost every significant aspect of the insurance business, including the power to revoke or restrict an insurance company’s ability to write new business. The state insurance regulations include various capital requirements and dividend restrictions based on our insurance subsidiaries’ statutory financial position and results of operations, as described in Note 1 and below. Our failure to maintain adequate levels of capital could lead to intervention by the various insurance regulatory authorities, which could materially and adversely affect our business, business prospects and financial condition. As of September 30, 2014, the amount of restricted net assets held by our consolidated insurance subsidiaries (which represents our equity investment in those insurance subsidiaries) totaled $1.9 billion of our consolidated net assets. Radian Guaranty Radian Guaranty is domiciled and licensed in Pennsylvania as a stock casualty insurance company authorized to carry on the business of credit insurance, which includes the authority to write mortgage guaranty insurance. It is a monoline insurer, restricted to writing only residential mortgage guaranty insurance. Radian Guaranty’s statutory net income (loss), statutory policyholders’ surplus and contingency reserve as of or for the periods indicated were as follows:
(In millions) | As of and for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 |  | As of and for the Year Ended December 31, 2013
Statutory net income (loss) | $ | 393.6 |  |  | $ | (23.8 | )
Statutory policyholders’ surplus | 1,326.1 |  |  | 1,317.8 |
Contingency reserve | 291.4 |  |  | 23.0 |
Radian Guaranty’s Risk-to-capital calculation appears in the table below. For purposes of the Risk-to-capital requirements imposed by certain states, statutory capital is defined as the sum of statutory policyholders’ surplus (i.e., statutory capital and surplus) plus statutory contingency reserves.
| September 30, 2014 |  | December 31, 2013
($ in millions) |  |  |
RIF, net (1) | $ | 29,713.4 |  |  | $ | 26,128.2 |
Statutory policyholders’ surplus | $ | 1,326.1 |  |  | $ | 1,317.8 |
Contingency reserve | 291.4 |  |  | 23.0 |
Statutory capital | $ | 1,617.5 |  |  | $ | 1,340.8 |
Risk-to-capital | 18.4:1 |  |  | 19.5:1
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(1) | Excludes risk ceded through reinsurance contracts (to third parties and affiliates) and RIF on defaulted loans.
We actively manage Radian Guaranty’s capital position in various ways, including: (1) through internal and external reinsurance arrangements; (2) by seeking opportunities to reduce our risk exposure through commutations and other negotiated transactions; and (3) by contributing additional capital from Radian Group. Currently, we expect to maintain Radian Guaranty’s Risk-to-capital at or below 20 to 1. Radian Guaranty was in compliance with the Statutory RBC Requirements or MPP Requirements, as applicable, in each of the RBC States as of September 30, 2014. See Note 1 for information regarding the Statutory RBC Requirements and MPP Requirements as well as the proposed GSE eligibility requirements that were issued in the form of the proposed PMIERs for public comment on July 10, 2014. The reduction in Radian Guaranty’s Risk-to-capital in the first nine months of 2014 was primarily due to increases in statutory net income and contingency reserves, partially offset by an increase in net RIF at Radian Guaranty. Radian Asset Assurance Radian Asset Assurance is domiciled and licensed in New York as a monoline financial guaranty insurer. It is also licensed under the New York insurance laws to write some types of surety insurance and credit insurance. Radian Asset Assurance’s ability to pay dividends to its parent, Radian Guaranty, is restricted by certain provisions of the insurance laws of New York. Under the New York insurance laws, Radian Asset Assurance may only pay dividends from statutory earned surplus. Without the prior approval from the NYSDFS, Radian Asset Assurance can only pay a dividend, which when totaled with all other dividends declared or distributed by it during the preceding 12 months, is the lesser of 10% of its statutory policyholders’ surplus, as shown by its last statement on file with the NYSDFS, or 100% of statutory adjusted net investment income during such period. In addition, the NYSDFS, in its discretion, may approve an Extraordinary Dividend. In July 2014, Radian Asset Assurance, upon receipt of approval from the NYSDFS, declared and paid an Extraordinary Dividend of $150 million to Radian Guaranty. Given the significant level of capital still remaining at Radian Asset Assurance, we currently expect to request approval for an additional Extraordinary Dividend in 2015, but there can be no assurance that the NYSDFS will grant future requests for Extraordinary Dividends, and if granted, that they will not be subject to material conditions. Absent any further NYSDFS approval for an Extraordinary Dividend, Radian Asset Assurance expects to have the capacity to pay an ordinary dividend to Radian Guaranty in 2015 of approximately $26.5 million. As of September 30, 2014, Radian Asset Assurance maintained claims paying resources of $1.4 billion, which consists of statutory policyholders’ surplus of $1.0 billion, plus contingency reserves, Unearned Premium Reserves, the present value of installment premiums and loss and LAE reserves. Since Radian Asset Assurance ceased writing new business in June 2008, Radian Asset Assurance has reduced its aggregate net par exposure by approximately 83% to $19.4 billion as of September 30, 2014. This reduction included large declines in many of the riskier segments of Radian Asset Assurance’s insured portfolio. New York insurance law also establishes aggregate risk limits on the basis of aggregate net liability as compared with statutory capital. “Aggregate net liability” is a risk-based calculation based on outstanding principal and interest of guaranteed obligations insured, net of qualifying reinsurance and collateral. Under these limits, statutory policyholders’ surplus and contingency reserves must not be less than a percentage of aggregate net liability equal to the sum of various percentages of aggregate net liability for various categories of specified obligations. The percentage varies from 0.33% for certain municipal obligations to 4% for certain non-investment grade obligations. As of September 30, 2014, the aggregate net liability of Radian Asset Assurance was significantly below the applicable limit. New York insurance law requires financial guaranty insurers to maintain minimum statutory policyholders’ surplus of $65 million. When added to the minimum statutory policyholders’ surplus of $1.4 million separately required for the other lines of insurance that Radian Asset Assurance is licensed to write, Radian Asset Assurance is required to maintain an aggregate minimum statutory policyholders’ surplus of $66.4 million. Radian Asset Assurance’s statutory net income (loss), statutory policyholders’ surplus and contingency reserve as of or for the periods indicated were as follows:
(In millions) | As of and for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2014 |  | As of and for the Year Ended December 31, 2013
Statutory net loss | $ | (7.4 | ) |  | $ | (24.9 | )
Statutory policyholders’ surplus | 1,033.1 |  |  | 1,198.0 |
Contingency reserve | 287.7 |  |  | 264.0 |

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