{"id":52,"date":"2009-02-13T17:56:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T06:28:46","slug":"moodys-to-lower-hartford-financial-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/moodys-to-lower-hartford-financial-ratings\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s To Lower Hartford Financial&#8217;s Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>MarketWatch <\/em>reports that Moody&#8217;s has lowered its ratings for Hartford Financial. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annuity<\/a> provider&#8217;s life insurance business was downgraded to A1. This means Hartford no longer is high-credit-quality. Future downgrades could be forthcoming, since Moody&#8217;s also has a negative outlook for Hartford. A Hartford representative blames the credit crunch for making it harder to hedge against future losses in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/variable-annuities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">variable annuities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch reports that Moody&#8217;s has lowered its ratings for Hartford Financial. The annuity provider&#8217;s life insurance business was downgraded to A1. This means Hartford no longer is high-credit-quality. Future downgrades could be forthcoming, since Moody&#8217;s also has a negative outlook for Hartford. A Hartford representative &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Moody&#8217;s To Lower Hartford Financial&#8217;s Ratings\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/moodys-to-lower-hartford-financial-ratings\/#more-52\" aria-label=\"Read more about Moody&#8217;s To Lower Hartford Financial&#8217;s Ratings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,12],"tags":[54,246,283,145,125,296,40],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25981,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/25981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annuityfyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}