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Allstate soon to face up to Mark-to-Market value of its investments ALL

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in 387 days

Allstate has BV equity of around $22bn vs a higher market cap of around $28bn.

This equity is geared to support $159bn of assets of which $121bn are investments and excluding short term assets, investments total around $115bn.

<> Although Allstate had a conservative investment portfolio recent events plus the recent downgrade of the monolines means significant writedowns in investment values can be expected. Below is tabled the writedowns forecast assuming a number of the AAA wrapped munis are downgraded, corporates are downgraded to reflect the increasing defaults (...

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By ferrit (+44.71% risk: moderate) 06/11/08

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Allstate Dodges Subprime Question ALL

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Allstate (NYSE:ALL) recently announced their quarterly earnings. In the conference call they of course took a question on the sub-prime exposure. Their response is that they feel very comfortable and feel that they took the necessary steps several years ago. They also claim to hold approximately $4.8 billion in subprime mortage securities and $164 million in ABS CDO's.

If you listen very carefully to the response they do admit to experiencing valuation declines. ie they are losing money. They claim to have not been bothered by the ratings declines. Who cares when you are losing money...

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