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and S. 2126, the Generating Ownership through Long Term Holding (GROWTH) Act, which would defer taxation of automatically reinvested capital gains taxes until the time the mutual fund shares are sold and H.R. 2167, the Automatic IRA Act of 2007, which would allow employees not covered qualified retirement. plans to save for retirement through automatic payroll deposit IRAs and to facilitate similar savings by the self-employed.\n\n401 (k) fee disclosure: Oppose bill recently approved by the House committee on Education and the Workforce, H.R. 3185, the 401 (k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act, which would require 401 (k) plan administrators to reveal charges associated with four categories of fees: administrative fees, investment management fees, transaction fees, and other costs.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "TRD", "general_issue_code_display": "Trade (domestic/foreign)", "description": "NAFTA Debenture Issue-FFIC seeks monetary relief from the Mexican government under NAFTA's Chapter 11 tribunal process.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": 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for banking and asset management affiliates, including H.R. 3221, the \"American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008\" and Senate bills.\nMark to market accounting: Contacted House staff to inquire whether the SEC may be working on guidance moving from mark to market accounting to fair value accounting. Bailout/Economic Recovery Legislation: Follow introduction, passage and sinage of bill, H.R. 1924, the \"Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008\". The bill, which Allianz of America supported, authorizes the U.S. Government to purchase up to $700 billion of troubled assets from financial institutions. The bill also included tax extender provisions which Allianz supported.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "FIN", "general_issue_code_display": "Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities", "description": "Municipal bonds: Followed SEC action, including a recently proposed rule to bring equity-indexed annuities under the SEC's regulatory purview. Proposed rule: \"Indexed Annuities and certain other insurance contacts\" Release number: 33-8933. Commodities: Monitor action of the CFTC and Congress on speculation in the energy markets.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "TAX", "general_issue_code_display": "Taxation/Internal Revenue Code", "description": "Cascading taxes for foreign-owned insurers: Advocate against measure that would lead to the imposition of an excise tax twice when insurance or reinsurance is placed from the U.S. to a foreign company and then when the foreign company reinsures the U.S. risk. The IRS issued a ruling on this in March (IRS Ruling 2008-15) Exchange traded notes: For PIMCO followed issue through trade association Investment Company Institute. ETNs are an alternative to mutual funds and enjoy a tax preference. Treasury has recently weighed in and may view this current tax treatment as not appropriate.\n\nAnnuities tax relief: Support S. 1010 in the Senate and H.R. 2205 in the House, titled the Retirement Security for Life Act, which would exclude from income taxes 50 percent of gross income from annuity payment, not to exceed $20,000 per year.\n\nReinsurance taxation: Advocate against legislation (H.R. 6969, \"To Amend the internal Revenue Code of 1986 to disallow the deduction for Excess Non-Taxed Reinsurance Premiums with respect to United States risks paid to affiliates.\" This bill would prohibit offshore reinsurance affiliates of insurance companies not required to pay U.S. taxes from taking deductions for \"excess reinsurance premiums\" for domestic risks.\n\nTax Extenders: Lobbied for extension of exemption for foreign shareholders of U.S. mutual funds from a U.S. withholding tax. This was included in the bailout bill. H.R. 1424, signed into law.\n\nTax Extenders: Lobbied for an extension of capital gains tax rate for 2009 and 2010.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "INS", "general_issue_code_display": "Insurance", "description": "Insurance Reform: Advocate in support of an optional Federal Charter, H.R. 3200 and S.40, both titled \"The National Insurance Act of 2007\". These bills would create an optional federal charter for insurance. Also advocate for H.R. 5840, the Insurance Information Act of 2008. This bill would create an office of Insurance Information within the Treasury Department to provide federal expertise on insurance matters and international negotiations. Long Term Care insurance: Advocate in support of HR 3363 and S.2337, both titled the \"Long-term Care Affordability and Security Act of 2007.\" These bills would allow long-term care insurance to be offered in employer-sponsored cafeteria plans flexible spending arrangements.\n\nAnnuities/Suitability: Followed the drafting and then the introduction of S.2794, the \"Senior Investor Protection Act of 2008\", a bill which would hold insurance and securities companies liable for any potential mis-selling of their products by agents and brokers. the bill also required disclosures of fees, costs, and commissions. Also contacted Senate staff on the annuities suitability issues, separate from the introduction of the bill. Also followed SEC action on this issue.\n\nHolocaust insurance issues/ICHEIC: Lobbied against a bill introduced in the House, H.R. 1746, the \"Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2007\", which would create a new cause of action against U.S. insurance companies with European affiliates that may have written life insurance policies involving Holocaust victims. the bill would also require any European insurer with policies written between 1900 and 1945 that may have involved holocaust victims to disclose all files on the policies, including names, to the U.S. \n\nCredit-based insurance scores: Lobbied against a bill introduced in the House, H.R. 5733, the \"Nondiscriminatory Use of Consumer Reports and Consumer Information Act of 2008\", which would restrict the ability of personal lines insurers to use credit information for underwriting or setting rates.\n\nBond insurance: Follow issue, including attending hearings, which is how the subprime crisis has affected the bond insurance industry and the municipal securities they insure.\n\nMedicare secondary payer/workers compensation: Flow issue, including trade association efforts to meet with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency at the Department of Health and Human Services.. CMS is working on guidance/rules on this issue and insurance trade associations are weighing in.\n\nMcCarran-Ferguston Reform: Follow and oppose two bills, S. 618 and H.R. 1081, the Insurance Industry Competition Act, which would repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which provides insurers a limited exemption from federal antitrust law.\n\nBroker licensing: Followed introduction of bill H.R. 5611, the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act. This bill, which is generally opposed by trade groups we belong to, would create a self regulating organization for insurance producers", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}, {"general_issue_code": "TOR", "general_issue_code_display": "Torts", "description": "Legal/tort reform: Track the progress of the insurance industry's collaboration on legal reform/tort issues at the federal and state levels. Through trades, the federal government affairs team has bee updated on several bills in Congress including S.1782/H.R.3010, Arbitration Fairness Act of 2000; S.204/H.R.4854, False Claims Act Corrections Act: S.2449, Sunshine in Litigation Act: S.2450, to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the workproduct doctrine; S.2133, HOMES Act: S.2136, Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Act: S.2636, Foreclosure Prevention Act: S.2633/H.R.4040, CPSC Reform Act: H.R. 3221, Dodd/Shelby Amendment 4387, in nature of a substitute, Foreclosure Prevention Act.", "foreign_entity_issues": "", "lobbyists": [{"lobbyist": {"id": 1551, "prefix": "mr", "prefix_display": "MR.", "first_name": "PETER", "nickname": null, "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "LEFKIN", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": null, "new": false}, {"lobbyist": {"id": 41402, "prefix": null, "prefix_display": null, "first_name": "RASHMI", "nickname": null, "middle_name": null, "last_name": "SUTTON", "suffix": null, "suffix_display": null}, "covered_position": "Counsel, House Financial Services Committee", "new": false}], "government_entities": [{"id": 45, "name": "Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)"}, {"id": 2, "name": "HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Risk Management Agency"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)"}, {"id": 1, "name": "SENATE"}, {"id": 39, "name": "State, Dept of (DOS)"}, {"id": 41, "name": "Treasury, Dept of"}]}], "conviction_disclosures": [], "foreign_entities": [], "affiliated_organizations": []} |