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Financial Guarantees in Force (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Guarantees [Abstract] |
Schedule of Financial Guarantee Insurance In Force By Bond Type | As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the guarantee portfolio was diversified by type of guaranteed bond as shown in the following table:
Net Par Outstanding December 31, | 2018 |  | 2017
Public Finance: |  |  |
Lease and tax-backed revenue | $ | 7,565,000 |  |  | $ | 11,893,000 |
Housing revenue (1) | 6,159,000 |  |  | 6,312,000 |
General obligation | 4,214,000 |  |  | 6,257,000 |
Transportation revenue | 1,754,000 |  |  | 2,002,000 |
Utility revenue | 1,178,000 |  |  | 2,212,000 |
Higher education | 1,168,000 |  |  | 1,642,000 |
Health care revenue | 459,000 |  |  | 807,000 |
Other | 945,000 |  |  | 963,000 |
Total Public Finance | 23,442,000 |  |  | 32,088,000 |
Structured Finance: |  |  |
Mortgage-backed and home equity | 5,510,000 |  |  | 7,267,000 |
Investor-owned utilities | 1,754,000 |  |  | 3,274,000 |
Structured Insurance | 1,365,000 |  |  | 1,420,000 |
Student loan | 934,000 |  |  | 1,238,000 |
Asset-backed (2) | 237,000 |  |  | 443,000 |
Other | 147,000 |  |  | 174,000 |
Total Structured Finance | 9,947,000 |  |  | 13,816,000 |
International Finance: |  |  |
Sovereign/sub-sovereign | 5,250,000 |  |  | 5,664,000 |
Investor-owned and public utilities | 4,499,000 |  |  | 5,696,000 |
Transportation | 1,613,000 |  |  | 1,777,000 |
Asset-backed (2) | 1,550,000 |  |  | 2,609,000 |
Mortgage-backed and home equity | — |  |  | 246,000 |
Other | 626,000 |  |  | 820,000 |
Total International Finance | 13,538,000 |  |  | 16,812,000 |
Total | $ | 46,927,000 |  |  | $ | 62,716,000 |
(1) | Includes $5,759,000 and $5,829,000 of Military Housing net par at December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively.
(2) | At December 31, 2018 and 2017, all asset-backed net par amounts outstanding relate to commercial asset-based transactions.
Schedule of International Financial Guarantee Insurance In Force Portfolio By Location Of Risk | As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the International Finance guaranteed portfolio by location of risk was as outlined in the table below:
Net Par Outstanding December 31, | 2018 |  | 2017
United Kingdom | $ | 10,965,000 |  |  | $ | 13,554,000 |
Italy | 811,000 |  |  | 877,000 |
Austria | 712,000 |  |  | 770,000 |
Australia | 384,000 |  |  | 608,000 |
France | 312,000 |  |  | 329,000 |
Internationally diversified (1) | 213,000 |  |  | 368,000 |
Other international | 141,000 |  |  | 306,000 |
Total International Finance | $ | 13,538,000 |  |  | $ | 16,812,000 |
(1) | Internationally diversified obligations represent pools of geographically diversified exposures which may include components of U.S. exposure.

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