FINANCIAL STRENGTH
$10 Billion
TOTAL CLAIMS-PAYING RESOURCES
ACROSS THE ASSURED GUARANTY GROUP
Only you and your financial advisor can decide where it's best for you to invest your retirement savings, but here's something to consider: Municipal bonds insured by Assured Guaranty are among the very safest investments you can make. That's because your principal and interest from these bonds are 100% guaranteed by the proven leader in municipal bond insurance. Assured Guaranty has group claims-paying resources of over $10 billion. Whether your goal is to build your nest egg or to make sure you have the cash flow you need for retirement, the bonds we insure are guaranteed to make their scheduled payments in full and on time.
Bond INSURANCE: THE BASICS DOWNLOADTOTAL CLAIMS-PAYING RESOURCES
ACROSS THE ASSURED GUARANTY GROUP
Average Weekly Trading Volume
of municipal bonds insured by Assured Guaranty
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The probability of a bondholder experiencing a loss on a bond we insure is much lower than for municipal bonds in general. Most of the municipal bonds that have defaulted would not even have qualified for Assured Guaranty insurance in the first place, because they were unrated, rated below investment grade, in bond sectors we exclude or otherwise ineligible.
Issuers report their financial condition to us regularly so we can spot emerging problems and work with issuers to solve them before they become serious. We often have ways to help that individual bondholders do not, such as waiving covenants when doing so allows an issuer to get back on the right track.
In the rare instances when a municipal bond issuer does not make a principal or interest payment in full on a bond insured by Assured Guaranty, we are obligated to make up the shortfall when the payment is due. Our guaranty is unconditional and irrevocable.
Assured Guaranty has over $10 billion in group claims-paying resources. Additionally, we annually generate hundreds of millions of dollars in investment income. Rating agencies, which regularly assess our financial strength, report that we have more capital than we would need even under their severely stressed economic scenarios.
No investor in Assured Guaranty insured municipal bonds has ever failed to receive timely principal and interest payments, even in cases of default such as those in Detroit, MI; Jefferson County, AL; Harrisburg, PA; Stockton, CA; and Puerto Rico. Our highest priority is to protect investors not just from losses but from any interruptions of cash flow.
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