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OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A.M. Best Co. have assigned the followers debt evaluations to the
senior barred recognition installations owed December 2011 of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reinsurance Ltd. (issuer), a newly created Cayman Islands exempted,
limited life particular intent Class Type B insurer: The mentality for all
evaluations is stable. Senior Barred Series A Loans $185 million “a” Senior Barred Series Type B Loans $140 million “bbb-” Senior Barred Series Degree Centigrade Loans $130 million “bb+” Senior Barred Series Vitamin D Loans $ 45 million “bb-”

The primary concern intent for the creative activity of the issuer is for the
issue of the loans and the service and public presentation of assorted
understandings entered into, including four reinsurance understandings
(applicable to each series of loans) between the issuer and CIG
Reinsurance Ltd. and New Palace Reinsurance Company Ltd. (collectively,
cedants), which are social class 4 coverage companies organized under the laws
of Bermuda; the barter understanding between the issuer and the barter
counterparty; and other covenants.

Under each reinsurance agreement, the issuer supplies the cedants with
yearly congeries insurance protection with a bounds of up to the
principal amount of the corresponding series of loans, when yearly
congeries insured losings in the defined concern portfolio during a
three-year period beginning June 2007 ran into or transcend specific fond regard
points. In exchange for receiving the multi-year reinsurance coverage,
the cedants will do periodical insurance premium payments to the issuer. The
fond regard and exhaustion points for each reinsurance understanding will be
recalculated on July 15 of 2008 and 2009 based on the cedants’
updated portfolio.

Return from the issue of each series of loans will be deposited
into separate collateral trust business relationships and will be available to fulfill
the duties of the issuer. This includes loss payments required to
be made by the issuer under the reinsurance agreements, amounts owed to
the barter counterparty and payments in regard of the loans issued under
a recognition understanding between the issuer and lenders. All finances in the
collateral trust business relationships will be invested as per the investing
guidelines put forth in the collateral trust agreements, which regulate
the choice of the directed investment(s) to be acquired. The loans
are with limited resort to certain assets of the issuer and are
without resort to the cedants.

The assigned evaluations stand for A.M. Best’s
sentiment as to the issuer’s ability to ran into
its fiscal duties to security holders when due. The evaluations take
into consideration a battalion of factors including the applicable
covered perils; the annualized modeled fond regard chance (i.e., the
first dollar of loss) of 0.007% for Series Type A Loans, 0.156% for Series Type B
Loans, 0.904% for Series Degree Centigrade Loans, and 1.4% for Series Vitamin D Loans as
provided by the cedants; an overview of the cedants’
underwriting policies; and a reappraisal of the construction and the legal
certification provided by the cedants. In addition, the evaluations take
into consideration an appraisal of the cedants’
underwriting and direction experience and ability to measure the yearly
modeled chance of attachment.

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