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Sector: Financial > Industry: Insurance (Prop. & Casualty)

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Bearish on XL ... XL

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(closed on 07/07/08)

XL Capital, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance coverage to industrial, commercial and professional service firms, insurance companies, and other enterprises worldwide. It operates through four segments: Insurance, Reinsurance, Life Operations, and Other Financial lines. The Insurance segment offers risk management products, including property and casualty insurance programs for multinational companies, umbrella liability, product recall, workers’ compensation, property catastrophe, and primary master property and liability coverage; and specialty lines produc...

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By Marian Filo (-24.55% risk: aggressive) 07/04/08

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JPM would have gone belly-up if had not rescued BSC XL

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APOLOGIES FOR THE INCORRECT HEADING ! It should read,

XL will be buried by its counterparty exposure to SCA

The two principal risks which will bury XL relate to its relationship with SCA.

XL cannot wash its hands of SCA by the IPO. SCA is ‘managed’ by XL and is inextricably linked via various agreements. As a result XK is the major creditor to SCA and has the greatest counterparty risk on SCA.

<> <> XL has already written off its investment in SCA and it must be only a matter of time until SCA seeks Chapter 11 p...

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By ferrit (+33.45% risk: moderate) 06/11/08

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