Summary
Assured Guaranty Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides credit protection products to public finance, infrastructure, and structured finance markets in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Insurance and Asset Management. It offers financial guaranty insurance that protects holders of debt instruments and other monetary obligations from defaults in scheduled payments. The company insures and reinsures various debt obligations, including bonds issued by the United States state governmental authorities; and notes issued to finance infrastructure projects. It also insures and reinsures various the U.S. public finance obligations, such as general obligation, tax-backed, municipal utility, transportation, healthcare, higher education, infrastructure, housing revenue, investor-owned utility, renewable energy, and other public finance bonds. Further, it is involved in insuring and reinsuring of non-U.S. public finance obligations comprising regulated utilities, infrastructure finance, sovereign and sub-sovereign, renewable energy bonds, pooled infrastructure, and other public finance obligations; and the U.S. and non-U.S. Structured finance obligations, including residential mortgage-backed securities, life insurance transactions, consumer receivables securities, pooled corporate obligations, financial products, and other structured finance securities. Additionally, the company offers specialty insurance and reinsurance that include life and aircraft residual value insurance transactions; and asset management services comprising investment advisory services, including management of collateralized loan obligations, and opportunity and liquid strategy funds. It markets its financial guaranty insurance directly to issuers and underwriters of public finance and structured finance securities, as well as to investors in such obligations. Assured Guaranty Ltd. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
History
Assured Guaranty was formed in 1983 in Bermuda under the name Capital Re Corporation. On April 5, 2000, Capital Re merged with J.P. Morgan’s insurance operations of JPMorgan Chase and the new company became Assured Guaranty Corp. The name was later changed to Assured Guaranty Ltd.
Mission
Assured Guaranty's mission is to act as an advocate and leader in the credit protection industry, setting the standard in product innovation, exceptional customer service and financial strength.
Vision
Assured Guaranty's vision is to protect investors and policyholders by ensuring that our insureds meet their obligations and that they are properly compensated.
Key Team
Ms. Gon Ling Chow (Gen. Counsel & Sec.)
Mr. Russell Brown Brewer II (Sr. Advisor)
Mr. Christopher M. Gibbons (CTO & Head of Information Technology)
Kirk Edmunds (Chief Information Officer)
Ms. Dawn Lynn Jasiak (Head of Human Capital Management)
Mr. Robert S. Tucker (Sr. Managing Director of Investor Relations & Corp. Communications)
Mr. Howard Wayne Albert (Chief Risk Officer)
Recognition and Awards
Assured Guaranty has earned numerous distinctions in the industry, including the “Insurance Company of the Year” Award from Business Insurance magazine in 2007, and the “Innovator of the Year” Award from Insurance Business America magazine in 2017.
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