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Genworth Financial Inc   (GNW)
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    Sector  Financial    Industry Life Insurance
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Protection

We offer U.S. customers life insurance, long-term care insurance and, primarily for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees, group life and health insurance. In Europe, we offer payment protection insurance, which helps consumers meet their payment obligations in the event of illness, involuntary unemployment, disability or death. In 2005, we were the leading provider of individual long-term care insurance and a leading provider of term life insurance in the U.S., according to LIMRA International (in each case based upon annualized first-year premiums). Our leadership in long-term care insurance is based upon over 30 years of product underwriting and claims experience. This experience has enabled us to build and benefit from what we believe is the largest actuarial database in the long-term care insurance industry. We are a leading provider of term life insurance through brokerage general agencies in the U.S. which we consider to be the largest distribution channel for term life insurance.

Life insurance

Our life insurance business markets and sells term and universal life, insurance products that provide a personal financial safety net for individuals and their families. These products provide protection against financial hardship after the death of an insured by providing cash payments to the beneficiaries of the policyholder. Some types of life insurance also offer a savings element that can be used to help accumulate funds to meet future financial needs.

Our principal life insurance product is term life, which provides life insurance coverage with guaranteed level premiums for a specified period of time. Term life insurance has little or no buildup of cash value that is payable upon lapse of the coverage. We have been a leading provider of term life insurance for more than two decades, and we believe that we are a leading provider of term life insurance through brokerage general agencies in the U.S. In addition to term life insurance, we offer universal life insurance products, which are designed to provide protection for the entire life of the insured and may include a buildup of cash value that can be used to meet particular financial needs during the policyholder’s lifetime. Our life insurance business also includes a run-off block of whole life insurance.

We price our insurance policies based primarily upon our own historical experience in the risk categories that we target. Our pricing strategy is to target individuals in preferred risk categories and offer them attractive products at competitive prices. Preferred risks include healthier individuals who generally have family histories that do not present increased mortality risk. We also have significant expertise in evaluating people with health problems and offer appropriately priced coverage for people who meet our underwriting criteria.

We offer our life insurance products primarily through an extensive network of independent brokerage general agencies located throughout the U.S. We also offer our life insurance products through affluent market producer groups, financial intermediaries, and insurance marketing organizations. We believe there are opportunities to expand our sales through each of these distribution channels.

Products

Term life insurance

Our term life insurance policies provide a death benefit if the insured dies while the coverage is in-force. Term life policies lapse with little or no required payment by us at the end of the coverage period if the insured is still alive. We also offer policyholders the right to convert most of our term insurance policies to specified life insurance policies issued by us. We seek to reduce the mortality risk associated with conversion by restricting its availability to certain ages and by limiting the period during which the conversion option can be exercised.


Our primary term life insurance products have guaranteed level premiums for initial terms of 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 years. In addition, our 5-year products offer, at the end of the initial term, a second 5-year term of level premiums, which may or may not be guaranteed. After the guaranteed period expires, premiums increase annually and the policyholder has the option to continue under the current policy by paying the increased premiums without demonstrating insurability or by qualifying for a new policy by submitting again to the underwriting process. Coverage continues until the insured reaches the policy expiration age or the policyholder ceases to make premium payments or otherwise terminates the policy, including potentially converting to a permanent plan of insurance. The termination of coverage is called a lapse. For newer policies, we seek to reduce lapses at the end of the guaranteed period by gradually adjusting premiums to the attained age of the insured over the five years following the guaranteed period. After this phase-in period, premiums continue to increase as the insured ages.

VantagePointSM is a term product with a return of premium feature. Available for initial terms of 15, 20 or 30 years, it has a cash value rider that provides for a return of 100% of total net paid premiums at the end of the initial term, if a death benefit has not been paid. Cash values begin after the fourth year and are available for policy loans.

Universal life insurance

Our universal life insurance policies provide policyholders with lifetime death benefit coverage, the ability to accumulate assets on a flexible, tax-deferred basis, and the option to access the cash value of the policy through a policy loan, partial withdrawal or full surrender. Our universal life products allow policyholders to adjust the timing and amount of premium payments. We credit premiums paid, less certain expenses, to the policyholder’s account and from that account deduct regular expense charges and certain risk charges, known as cost of insurance, which generally increase from year to year as the insured ages. Our universal life insurance policies accumulate cash value that we pay to the policyholder when the policy lapses or is surrendered. Most of our universal life policies also include provisions for surrender charges for early termination and partial withdrawals. As of December 31, 2005, 54% of our in-force block of universal life insurance was subject to surrender charges. We also sell joint, second-to-die policies that are typically used for estate planning purposes. These policies insure two lives rather than one, with the policy proceeds paid after the death of both insured individuals.

Asset management

We offer asset management services to affluent individual investors. Most of our clients for these services have accumulated significant capital, and our principal asset management strategy is to help protect their assets while taking advantage of opportunities for capital appreciation. Our asset management clients are referred to us through financial advisers. We work with these financial advisers to develop portfolios consisting of individual securities, mutual funds and variable annuities designed to meet each client’s particular investment objectives. Our products consist of separately managed accounts, managed mutual funds accounts, and managed variable annuity services. For each of these products, we receive a management fee based upon the amount of assets under management.

Separately managed accounts are individually managed client portfolios that we structure based on the client’s needs and investment objectives, with securities recommended by multiple institutional investment advisors according to defined investment strategies. Our clients directly own the securities in their individual portfolios, and we continuously monitor and evaluate each investment advisor and the investment performance in each portfolio. We also offer advisory services to help clients invest in a variety of mutual funds and other securities. By working in cooperation with our clients’ financial advisers, we seek to achieve each client’s investment objectives by selecting the appropriate mutual funds.

Our retail broker/dealers have approximately 2,400 affiliated financial professionals, who sell annuity and insurance products, including our proprietary products, as well as third-party mutual funds and other investment products. In connection with these sales, we receive commission and fee income from purchasers, and we pay a portion of the commissions and fees to financial professionals.

Mortgage Insurance

Through our Mortgage Insurance segment, we offer mortgage insurance in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Mexico and Japan. We also are exploring opportunities in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Private mortgage insurance expands homeownership opportunities by enabling borrowers to buy homes with “low-down-payment mortgages,” which are usually defined as loans with a down payment of less than 20% of the home’s value. Low-down-payment mortgages are sometimes also referred to as high loan-to-value mortgages. Mortgage insurance products increase the funds available for residential mortgages by protecting mortgage lenders and investors against loss in the event of a borrower’s default. These products generally also aid financial institutions in managing their capital efficiently by reducing the capital required for low-down-payment mortgages. If a borrower defaults on mortgage payments, private mortgage insurance reduces and, in some instances, eliminates the loss to the insured institution. Private mortgage insurance also facilitates the sale of mortgage loans in the secondary mortgage market.

U.S. mortgage insurance The U.S. private mortgage insurance industry is defined in large part by the requirements and practices of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other large mortgage investors. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase residential mortgages from mortgage lenders and investors, as part of their governmental mandate to provide liquidity in the secondary mortgage market. For the first nine months of 2005, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased approximately 28.1% of all the mortgage loans originated in the U.S., as compared to 36.1% for 2004, according to statistics published by Inside the GSEs. We believe the significant reduction in the percentage of mortgages purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has reduced the market size for flow private mortgage insurance.

The majority of our U.S. mortgage insurance policies provide default loss protection on a portion (typically 10%-40%) of the balance of an individual mortgage loan. Most of our primary mortgage insurance policies are “flow” insurance policies, which cover individual loans at the time the loan is originated.

Products and services

Primary mortgage insurance

Flow insurance. Flow insurance is primary mortgage insurance placed on an individual loan when the loan is originated. Our primary mortgage insurance covers default risk on first mortgage loans generally secured by one- to four-unit residential properties, and can be used to protect mortgage lenders and investors from default on any type of residential mortgage loan instrument that we have approved. Our insurance covers a specified coverage percentage of a “claim amount” consisting of unpaid loan principal, delinquent interest and certain expenses associated with the default and subsequent foreclosure. As the insurer, we generally are required to pay the coverage percentage of a claim amount specified in the primary policy, but we also have the option to pay the lender an amount equal to the unpaid loan principal, delinquent interest and certain expenses incurred with the default and foreclosure, and acquire title to the property. In addition, the claim amount may be reduced or eliminated if the loss on the defaulted loan is reduced as a result of the lender’s disposition of the property. The lender selects the coverage percentage at the time the loan is originated, often to comply with investor requirements to reduce the loss exposure on loans purchased by the investor.

   

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Genworth Financial Inc Segments

 
U.S. Life Insurance
   75.15 % of total Revenue
Mortgage Insurance
   21.37 % of total Revenue
Corporate & Other
   -0.32 % of total Revenue
Runoff
   3.8 % of total Revenue
 

Business Segments (June 30. 2015)
Revenues
(in millions $)
II. Quarter
%
(of total Revenues)
(June 30. 2015)
Income
(in millions $)
II. Quarter
%
(Profit Margin)
U.S. Life Insurance
1,621.00 75.15 % 139.00 8.57 %
Mortgage Insurance
461.00 21.37 % 166.00 36.01 %
Corporate & Other
-7.00 -0.32 % 0.00 -
Runoff
82.00 3.8 % -7.00 -
Total
2,157.00 100 % 298.00 13.82 %

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Growth rates by Segment (June 30. 2015)
Y/Y Revenue
%
II. Quarter
Q/Q Revenue
%
(June 30. 2015)
Y/Y Income
%
II. Quarter
Q/Q Income
%
U.S. Life Insurance
-0.73 % -0.25 % 101.45 % 71.6 %
Mortgage Insurance
-3.15 % 6.96 % 6.41 % 43.1 %
Corporate & Other
- - - -
Runoff
-7.87 % 10.81 % - -
Total
-10.68 % -7.62 % -3.25 % 8.76 %

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