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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-09-064662
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20091215

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SELECTIVE INSURANCE GROUP INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000230557
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
		IRS NUMBER:				222168890
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NJ
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		40 WANTAGE AVENUE
		CITY:			BRANCHVILLE
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07890
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9739483000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		40 WANTAGE AVE
		STREET 2:		40 WANTAGE AVE
		CITY:			BRANCHVILLE
		STATE:			NJ
		ZIP:			07890

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SRI CORP
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19860508
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requested, this letter is formatted so our responses correspond with your
comments, which are in bold type.&#160;&#160;The capitalized terms we use in
this letter have the meanings defined in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2008.</font></div>
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      to your response to our comment three.&#160;&#160;With regards to your
      distressed debt strategy that includes a fund of funds component, it is
      our understanding that there are different types of &#8220;fund of funds,&#8221; each
      investing in a different type of collective investment
      scheme.&#160;&#160;Please clarify the types of fund of funds in which the
      company invests and the related investment
  scheme.</font></div>
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RESPONSE:</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The
following proposed prospective disclosure in our Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2009 will be added:</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The fund
of funds component of our distressed debt strategy, which makes up approximately
$6.2 million of our distressed debt strategy, encompasses a number of strategies
that generally fall into one of the following broad categories:</font></div>
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Debt Funds - Trading-Focused</font></div>
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funds focus on buying and selling debt of distressed companies ("Distressed
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Rosenberg, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></div>
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15, 2009</font></div>
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2</font></div>
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Debt Funds - Restructuring-Focused</font></div>
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funds focus on acquiring Distressed Debt with the intent of converting it into
equity in a restructuring and taking control of the company.</font></div>
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Situations Funds</font></div>
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funds pursue strategies that seek to take advantage of dislocations or
opportunities in the market that are often related to, or are derivatives of,
distressed investing.&#160;&#160;Special situations are often event-driven and
characterized by complexity, market inefficiency, and excess risk
premiums.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Private
Equity Funds - Turnaround-Focused</font></div>
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funds are a subset of private equity funds focused on investing in
under-performing or distressed companies.&#160;&#160;These funds generally
create value by acquiring the equity of these companies, in certain cases out of
bankruptcy, and effecting operational turnarounds or financial
restructuring.</font></div>
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10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2009</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Results
of Operations &amp; Related Information by Segment</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Review
of Underwriting Results by Line of Business, Page 36</font></div>
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      to your response to our comment eight.&#160;&#160;You acknowledge that the
      guidance in FASB ASC 944-60-25-3 requires insurance contracts to be
      grouped consistent with the manner in which you acquire, service and
      measure profitability of your insurance contracts to determine if a
      premium deficiency exists.&#160;&#160;Please address the
      following:</font></div>
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      each of your lines within the commercial and personal lines, in which you
      present net premiums earned in Note 9, please tell us how you acquire and
      service these contracts.&#160;&#160;Please explain why it is appropriate
      to group these contracts for the purpose of evaluating premium
      deficiencies.</font></div>
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Although
      you state that you measure the profitability of your insurance contracts
      at your insurance operations segment level, you separately disclose, in
      MD&amp;A, the profitability of your commercial and personal lines as well
      as for certain lines within commercial.&#160;&#160;For each of these lines
      please tell us how you use these profitability measures including to what
      extent you use it in pricing each line's contracts.&#160;&#160;In
      addition, provide us similar information for any other line within the
      commercial and personal lines for which you present net premiums earned in
      Note 9 and compute a profitability
measure.</font></div>
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RESPONSE:</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">For
purposes of determining how to group our insurance contracts in accordance with
FASB ASC 944-60-25-3, we considered, and continue to consider, many of the same
facts that we analyze when reviewing our operating segments under FASB ASC 280,
&#8220;Segment Reporting.&#8221; We believe the underlying principle for both of these
standards is consistent and requires us to determine how we manage the way we
acquire, service, and analyze the profitability of our business.</font></div>
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15, 2009</font></div>
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distribution of our products, the net premiums earned of which are outlined in
Note 9 to the financial statements, centers around the independent agency
distribution channel.&#160; Focusing on the broad insurance needs of our<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">&#160;</font>agency&#8217;s customers is
extremely important, regardless of line of business. &#160;While we do price
accounts on a granular level, this is largely a function of regulatory
requirements and the competitive landscape within which we operate.&#160;
Pricing at a granular level allows us to fulfill our regulatory reporting
requirements and allows our customers to compare product offerings from
different property and casualty insurance companies.&#160; In addition, pricing
and profitability information at a granular level is necessary for the financial
statement reader, as well as external financial analysts, to compare us with our
competitors in the industry.&#160;&#160;However, our marketing efforts for all
of our product lines revolve around independent agencies and their touch points
with our shared customers, the policyholders.&#160; We service our agency
distribution channel through our field model, which includes agency management
specialists, loss control representatives, claim management specialists and our
Underwriting and Claims Service Centers.&#160;&#160;None of these roles are
delineated by line of business, rather, each function services the entire set of
insurance contracts acquired through each agency. &#160;Furthermore, we measure
profitability of our agents and calculate their compensation based on overall
insurance results, not by line of business.&#160; All employees of the Company,
including senior management, are incented based on overall insurance results,
not by line of business.&#160; In our opinion, incentive compensation structure
is one of the clearest and most objective methods of ultimately determining how
a company manages the profitability of their business.&#160;</font></div>
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reasons, we believe that it is appropriate to group insurance contracts at our
total Insurance Operations level when evaluating premium deficiency; despite our
willingness to disclose additional information regarding our product lines and
their corresponding profitability.&#160; We believe generally accepted
accounting principles support the inclusion of these additional disclosures in
our notes to the financial statements and in our Management Discussion and
Analysis, despite the fact that that the information provided is at a more
granular level than the basis on which we acquire these insurance
contracts.&#160; Specifically, FASB ASC 280-10-05-5 provides that, &#8220;to provide
some comparability between public entities, this Subtopic requires that an
entity report certain information about the revenues that it derives from each
of its products and services (or groups of similar products and services) &#8230;
regardless of how the entity is organized.&#160; As a consequence, some entities
are likely to be required to provide limited information that may not be used
for making operating decisions and assessing performance.&#8221;&#160; Further, FASB
ASC 280-10-45-2 provides that &#8220;nothing in this Subtopic is intended to
discourage a public entity from reporting additional information specific to
that entity or to a particular line of business that may contribute to an
understanding of the entity.&#8221; &#160;We believe this additional disclosure is
important to the financial statement reader, as well as external financial
analysts, to understand and compare our results to others within our industry
and we provided this additional information, in part, in response to previous
Commission Staff requests.</font></div>
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10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009</font></div>
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to Unaudited Interim Consolidated Financial Statement</font></div>
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      revise your disclosure provided in response to our comment five to include
      the weighted-average assumed conditional default rates in addition to the
      range you disclose.&#160;&#160;At a minimum, the ranges provided for your
      Alt-A fixed structured securities and your Alt-A hybrid structured
      securities appear to be sufficiently wide to limit their usefulness
      without an understanding of the weighted-average assumed conditional
      default rates.</font></div>
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RESPONSE:</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">To the
extent that the disclosure on page 16 is applicable and will be presented in our
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, our proposed prospective
disclosure is as follows:</font></div>
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structured securities, we utilized underlying data for each security, including
information from credit agencies, to determine projected future cash
flows.&#160;&#160;These projections included base case and stress testing
scenarios that modify expected default rates, loss severities, and prepayment
assumptions based on type and vintage.&#160;&#160;<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">We use conditional default rates up
to 2.50 in the stress testing scenarios of our CMBS
portfolio.&#160;&#160;Generally the range of the conditional default rate
assumptions for our other structured securities is as
follows:</font></font></div>
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      securities:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;
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Alt-A securities, which were comprised of 11 different securities, had an
unrealized/unrecognized balance of approximately $7.9 million, the corresponding
fair value of which represents less than one percent of the fair value of our
fixed maturity security investment portfolio as of September 30,
2009.&#160;&#160;The weighted average conditional default rates for our Alt-A
fixed structured securities and Alt-A hybrid structured securities applied
during our stress testing as of September 30, 2009 was 3.00 and 3.95,
respectively.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Note
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              <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">On
      page 12, you provide disclosure as of September 30, 2009 consistent with
      the information provided in your response to our comment six as of June
      30, 2009.&#160;&#160;In this disclosure, you indicate that you performed a
      test that stressed 14 HTM CMBS securities comprising a $30.7 million or
      86% decline from carrying value under various scenarios with loss
      severities that generally ranged from 20% to 50%, based on loan-to-value
      ratios, as well as conditional default rates that generally ranged from
      1.0 to 2.5.&#160;&#160;It remains unclear to us why the 86% average
      decline in value is not indicative of an other-than-temporary impairment
      considering that it appears that many of these securities have been in an
      unrealized loss position for more than 12 months.&#160;&#160;In addition,
      on page 53 you disclose the unrealized losses on the five individual
      security holdings with the largest unrealized balances ranging from 70% to
      89%. Please explain to us how the large discounts from your cost bases on
      these securities are indicative of interest spreads in the
      market.&#160;&#160;In your response, please ensure that you address each
      of the following:</font></div>
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      each of the 14 HTM CMBS securities you identify, please describe what
      "stressed these 14 securities" means and explain why the use of assumed
      loss severities ranging from 20% to 50%, based on loan-to-value ratios, is
      appropriate.&#160;&#160;Please also describe how the conditional default
      rates relate to loss severity.&#160;&#160;For example, describe how loss
      severities of 20% to 50% result from conditional default rates of 1.0 to
      2.5. <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">&#160;</font>Please
      explain why assumed loss severities ranging from 20% to 50% do not appear
      to result in credit losses requiring
impairment.</font></div>
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      your disclosure "generally these securities have experienced increased
      collateral support over origination," describe how this contributed to
      your conclusion that no credit impairment charge was
      required.&#160;&#160;Also describe how collateral support is considered in
      the determination of the fair value of the HTM CMBS
      securities.&#160;&#160;In this regard, please explain why the disclosed
      discounts up to 89% from amortized cost are not indicative of some amount
      of credit loss.</font></div>
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      indicate that "generally these securities have loan-to-value ratios that
      support the valuation.''&#160;&#160;Please revise to clarify what
      valuation you are referring to in "support the valuation."&#160;&#160;In
      this regard, are you referring to the fair value, which includes an
      average 86% discount, or to the principal value of the
      securities.&#160;&#160;In addition, please revise your disclosure to
      include a weighted average and range of loan-to-value ratios of your HTM
      CMBS.</font></div>
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Rosenberg, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></div>
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States Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div>
      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">December
15, 2009</font></div>
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6</font></div><br><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; TEXT-DECORATION: underline">SELECTIVE
RESPONSE:</font></font></div>
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extent that the discussion on page 12 is applicable and will be presented in our
Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, our proposed prospective
disclosure will be enhanced as follows in response to the third bullet of your
comment:</font></div>
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we considered the following facts and circumstances:&#160;&#160;(i) these
securities have experienced low delinquencies and in certain cases no losses to
date; (ii) generally these securities have experienced increased collateral
support over origination; and (iii) generally these securities have
loan-to-value ratios that support the <font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-STYLE: italic">principal value of the
securities.&#160;&#160;These loan-to-value ratios ranged from 37% to 83%, with a
weighted average based on carry value of 66%.&#8221;</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">In
addition, the following discussion, which is not part of the proposed
prospective disclosure above, is provided in response to your specific questions
regarding the 14 HTM CMBS securities deemed not to be other-than-temporarily
impaired as of September 30, 2009.&#160;&#160;Please note that the five
securities with the largest unrealized/unrecognized balances that are disclosed
on page 53 of our September 30, 2009 Form 10-Q are included within the 14 HTM
CMBS securities discussed on page 12 of that report.</font></div>
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currently a large market discount for subordinated CMBS, in addition to a
continued market discount for highly structured and illiquid CMBS, especially
for Re-REMICs, which continues to impact valuations.&#160;&#160;We believe these
discounts are often irrespective of underlying credit characteristics of
individual securities and instead represent a temporary imbalance between supply
and demand brought on by the broader turmoil in the financial
markets.&#160;&#160;In the case of these 14 securities, it is our belief that
based on this imbalance, current valuations are not necessarily reflective of
the underlying credit metrics, or the underlying ability of the collateral to
repay.&#160;&#160;Collateral support is an important factor in evaluating all
structured securities as it represents insulation from principal losses to the
security.&#160;&#160;However, the statement in our disclosure about collateral
support generally increasing was referring to all structured securities and it
applies more to RMBS than CMBS.&#160;&#160;Collateral support generally
increases as a percentage of total collateral on structured RMBS securities due
to principal pay downs.&#160;&#160;Collateral support is a significant factor in
evaluating the present value of future cash flows of these 14 CMBSs; however,
CMBS deals do not generally require principal payments in the early years (i.e.,
the majority of our CMBS do not start to pay principal until year ten) so we do
not see a significant increase in the credit support of these 14
CMBS.&#160;&#160;We are not currently seeing significant deterioration of credit
support on these CMBS to date either.&#160;&#160;Some of our CMBS do require
balloon payments, resulting in some refinancing risk, which we have considered
in our evaluation of future cash flows.&#160;&#160;As such, valuations alone
cannot be used to assess potential impairment.&#160;&#160;Using the process
disclosed in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 and as
further described below, we concluded that the present value of estimated future
cash flows was not less than amortized cost for these 14
securities.</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt"><br></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Of these
14 securities, six securities comprised $3.1 million of the total $30.7 million
unrealized/unrecognized loss position at September 30, 2009.&#160;&#160;These
six securities had an average loss position of only 14% from the amortized cost
of these securities; therefore we will not specifically address these six
securities herein.</font></div>
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Rosenberg, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">United
States Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">December
15, 2009</font></div>
    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Page
7</font></div>
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drivers behind the 86% decline in the 14 HTM CMBS securities were eight
securities that are listed in the table below.&#160;&#160;These eight securities
comprised the remaining $27.6 million unrealized/unrecognized loss position at
quarter end.&#160;&#160;Further discussions regarding both our general approach
to evaluating these eight securities for potential credit losses, as well as
specific discussions for each of these eight securities, are provided following
the table.</font></div>
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                <td valign="bottom" width="12%"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman">&#160;
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      Morgan Chase Comm Mtg Sec*</font></div>
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securities are also included in the table on page 53 of our September 30, 2009
Form 10-Q, as they represent the securities with the five largest
unrealized/unrecognized balances as of September 30, 2009.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We have
been stress testing CMBS fixed maturity securities using conditional default
rate assumptions of up to 2.5, which are above historic levels, to evaluate the
duress under which a security will continue to perform and/or start to
experience credit loss.&#160;&#160;If the above stress tests indicate a
potential impairment of a particular security, we perform a discounted cash flow
analysis on that particular security to ascertain whether or not the security is
in fact other-than-temporarily impaired, as well as the amount of the credit
impairment, if any.&#160;&#160;When performing the discounted cash flow
analysis, we use the conditional default rates used during the stress testing of
the security as a reference point, but we ultimately expand our testing using
conditional default rates at more elevated levels in order to determine our best
estimate of the present value of future cash flows.</font></div>
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conditional default rate is the proportion of all loans outstanding in a
security at the beginning of a time period that is expected to default during
that period.&#160;&#160;Conditional default rate assumptions apply at the total
collateral pool level held in the securitization trust.&#160;&#160;Generally,
collateral conditional default rates will &#8220;ramp-up&#8221; over time as the collateral
seasons, the performance begins to weaken and losses begin to
surface.&#160;&#160;As time passes, depending on the collateral type and
vintage, losses will peak and performance will begin to improve as weaker
borrowers are removed from the pool through delinquency
resolutions.&#160;&#160;In the later years of a collateral pool&#8217;s life,
performance is generally materially better as the resulting favorable selection
of the portfolio improves the overall quality and performance.&#160;&#160;While
&#8220;ramped up&#8221; assumptions are used in our discounted cash flow analysis, when
performing the stress testing of our CMBS portfolio, we typically apply a more
conservative approach and do not apply a &#8220;ramp&#8221; of our conditional default rate
assumptions, instead we assume the cash flows for the next period will
experience defaults at the higher end of the range and then remain at that level
for the life of the position, due to the current uncertainty surrounding the
magnitude of potential future defaults on CMBS.</font></div>
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believe the conditional default rates used are prudent as recent industry
publications indicated a weighted average historical conditional default rate of
approximately 0.9 for CMBS, which is based on vintage years dating back to the
mid-1990s.&#160;&#160;In addition, our assumption of conditional default rates
takes into consideration the uncertainty of future defaults as well as the fact
that to date these securities have not experienced significant cumulative losses
or delinquencies.</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">Consistent
with our discounted cash flow analysis, our stress tests include a loan loss
severity assumption, which is applied at the loan level of the collateral
pool.&#160;&#160;The loan loss severity assumptions represent the estimated
percentage loss on the loan-to-value exposure for a particular
security.&#160;&#160;If the current loan-to-value ratio of a security was not
available, we assumed a 50% loan loss severity.&#160;&#160;However, certain of
the securities have lower current loan-to-value ratios, which in our opinion
results in a severity assumption of 50% being overly conservative. Where we have
current loan-to-value information and the loan-to-value ratio is lower than 80%,
we adjust the severity assumption to reflect the fact that the loan-to-value
ratio is lower.</font></div>
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purposes of our stress tests, the loan loss severity assumption was held
constant and was derived in either one of two ways:</font></div>
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      an estimated 60% loss on exposure percentage to the current loan-to-value
      ratio of a particular security (severity of 50% on a security with an 80%
      loan-to-value ratio equates to an estimated 60% loss on that loan-to-value
      exposure); or</font></div>
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      an assumed 50% in those instances where current loan-to-value ratios were
      not available at the time of our
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">We
believe a 50% severity, and applying an estimated 60% loss on the loan-to-value
exposure where loan-to-value is less than 80%, is appropriate as of September
30, 2009 as there has been an approximate 40% decrease in commercial real estate
values from their peak.&#160;&#160;Our process resulted in a loan loss severity
of between 42% - 50% for seven out of the eight securities, as compared to
recent industry publications which indicated a weighted average loan loss
severity under 35% recorded since 2002 on CMBS securities.&#160;&#160;For the
one additional security that was not between 42% - 50%, Morgan Stanley, the loan
loss severity of 22% reflects a current loan-to-value ratio of approximately
37%.&#160;&#160;The weighted average loan-to-value ratio on the eight securities
was 66% based on their September 30, 2009 carrying values.</font></div>
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&#8220;first loss&#8221; conditional default rate represents the default level at which the
security will start to experience losses. The &#8220;first loss&#8221; conditional default
rates on the eight securities listed above exceed our best estimate of defaults
as used in our stress testing as of September 30, 2009.&#160;&#160;For both of
the Morgan Stanley securities, the &#8220;first loss&#8221; conditional default rates
exceeded our best estimate by a reasonably wide margin, which led us to the
conclusion that these securities were not other-than-temporarily
impaired.&#160;&#160;However, for the remainder of these securities, the margin
between our best estimate used in stress testing and the &#8221;first loss&#8221;
conditional default rate was smaller and therefore we took into consideration
other qualitative information relative to our conclusions on each of these
securities.&#160;&#160;Those qualitative considerations were as follows for each
of the remaining securities:</font></div>
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Mortgage Securities Corp (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $0.7
million)</font></div>
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security is a subordinated tranche of a CMBS collateralized by a large and
diverse (both by type and location) pool of commercial real estate
loans.&#160;&#160;We have previously recognized several other-than-temporary
impairment credit related charges on this security totaling $1.9
million.&#160;&#160;However, when consideration is given to the loan-to-value
ratios (reported loan-to-value ratios are 73.6%) and the underlying properties&#8217;
ability to cover debt service (the current reported debt service coverage ratio
is 1.2), we believe the amortized cost subsequent to previous
other-than-temporary impairment charges was recoverable as of September 30,
2009.</font></div>
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Depositor Corp. (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $2.6
million)</font></div>
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security is a senior tranche of a Re-REMIC (a re-securitization) that represents
an undivided interest in a static pool of seasoned subordinated
CMBS.&#160;&#160;The underlying securities are well-seasoned with an average of
seven years.&#160;&#160;Approximately 20% of the loans have been defeased and
there is no longer any meaningful risk of default or loss.&#160;&#160;The
current credit support of this senior tranche remains significant at
approximately 70%; therefore, the collateral pool can realize material losses
before this tranche would begin to experience an impairment.</font></div>
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Mortgage Securities Corp II (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $7.1
million)</font></div>
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security is a senior tranche of a Re-REMIC (a re-securitization) that represents
an undivided interest in a static pool of seasoned subordinated
CMBS.&#160;&#160;These properties are well-seasoned at an average of six
years.&#160;&#160;Approximately 13% of the loans have been defeased and
therefore no longer carry any meaningful risk of default or loss.&#160;&#160;The
current credit support of this senior tranche remains significant at
approximately 16%; therefore, the collateral pool can realize material losses
before this tranche would begin to experience an impairment<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">.</font></font></div>
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Morgan Chase Comm MTG Sec (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $3.4
million)</font></div>
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security is a senior tranche of a Re-REMIC (a re-securitization) that represents
an undivided interest in a static pool of seasoned subordinated
CMBS.&#160;&#160;These properties are well-seasoned at an average of four years
and the quality of the underlying pool of securities, of which approximately 70%
are investment grade, demonstrated ability to support the mortgages with a
weighted average reported debt service coverage ratio of approximately 1.7, and
modest advance rates.&#160;&#160;Subsequent to our stress testing, we received
notification that the security has a weighted average reported loan-to-value of
approximately 71%, which would in-turn have reduced the loan loss severity in
our stress testing from 50% to approximately 43%.&#160;&#160;The current credit
support of this senior tranche remains significant at approximately 18%;
therefore, the collateral pool can realize material losses before this tranche
would begin to experience an impairment.</font></div>
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One Trust (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $3.2 million)</font></div>
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security is a senior tranche of a Re-REMIC (a re-securitization) that represents
an undivided interest in a static pool of seasoned subordinated
CMBS.&#160;&#160;These properties are well-seasoned at four years.&#160;&#160;In
addition, the current credit support of this senior tranche remains significant
at approximately 27%; therefore, the collateral pool can realize material losses
before this tranche would begin to experience an impairment.</font></div>
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Rosenberg, Senior Assistant Chief Accountant</font></div>
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States Securities and Exchange Commission</font></div>
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Morgan Chase Comm MTG Sec (Total unrealized/unrecognized loss of $3.9
million)</font></div>
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security is a subordinated tranche of a CMBS collateralized by a large and
diverse (both by type and location) pool of commercial real estate
loans.&#160;&#160;These properties demonstrated ability to service the
underlying mortgages, with a reported debts service coverage ratio of
approximately 1.7.&#160;&#160;The current credit support of this subordinated
tranche remains adequate at approximately 5%; therefore, the collateral pool can
realize losses before this tranche would begin to experience an
impairment.</font></div>
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result of our analysis described above, coupled with the fact that we do not
have the intent to sell these securities and do not believe we will be required
to sell these securities, we have concluded that these securities were not
other-than-temporarily impaired as of September 30, 2009.</font></div>
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