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Title 15 . Revenue
Chapter 137 . (Repealed)
Section 430. Fixed-income investments

15 AAC 137.430. Fixed-income investments

(a) The assets of the permanent fund may be invested in the following fixed-income investments:

(1) obligations of, or obligations insured by or guaranteed by, the United States or agencies or instrumentalities of the United States;

(2) obligations secured by reserves paid in by the United States or agencies or instrumentalities of the United States or obligations of corporations in which the United States is a shareholder or member;

(3) certificates of deposit and term deposits of United States domestic banks that are members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and that may be readily sold in a secondary market at prices reflecting fair value or that are fully secured at all times as to payment of principal and interest as described in (b) of this section;

(4) certificates of deposit and term deposits of federally chartered savings and loan associations in the state that are fully secured at all times as to payments of principal and interest as described in (b) of this section;

(5) certificates of deposit and term deposits of mutual savings banks in the state that are fully secured at all times as to payments of principal and interest as described in (b) of this section;

(6) fixed-term certificates of indebtedness of federally insured credit unions in the state that are fully secured at all times as to payments of principal and interest as described in (b) of this section;

(7) debt instruments that have been issued by domestic entities and that are rated investment grade, or debt instruments of comparable quality issued by nondomestic entities;

(8) subject to (d) of this section, debt instruments that have been issued by domestic or nondomestic entities that are rated below investment grade or are unrated;

(9) short-term

(A) promissory notes that have been issued by domestic entities and that are rated investment grade; or

(B) promissory notes of comparable quality issued by nondomestic entities;

(10) subject to (d) of this section, short-term promissory notes that have been issued by domestic or nondomestic entities that are rated below investment grade or are unrated;

(11) bankers' acceptances drawn on and accepted by United States banks each of which has a combined capital and surplus aggregating at least $200,000,000;

(12) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements, the securities underlying the agreements being any of the items listed in (1) - (6) of this subsection;

(13) the portions of business and industrial loans made under the Rural Development Act of 1972 that are guaranteed by the Farmers Home Administration;

(14) the guaranteed portion of Farmers Home Administration loans;

(15) certificates of deposit, term deposits, or bankers' acceptances, that are issued by a United States or nondomestic bank or trust company located outside of the United States and are denominated in United States or nondomestic currency if either

(A) those instruments may be readily sold in a secondary market at prices reflecting fair value; or

(B) the issuing bank or trust company has capital, surplus, and retained earnings at the date of issue equaling at least $500,000,000;

(16) securities of nondomestic governments and nondomestic government agencies, the principal of, or interest on, which is payable in either United States dollars or nondomestic currencies;

(17) taxable or tax-exempt municipal or state debt instruments whether supported by revenues, general obligations, or guarantees;

(18) shares in a money market or short-term investment fund that has either collateral securities of a type authorized elsewhere in this section as acceptable collateral or securities of similar quality to those authorized elsewhere in this section as acceptable collateral;

(19) fixed-income derivatives, including forwards, futures, options, collateralized securities, structured notes, and swaps, including credit default swaps;

(20) debt instruments issued by an entity described in 15 AAC 137.450(a) (3).

(b) Except for investments made under (a)(15) of this section, certificates of deposit or the equivalent instruments that are not of a quality that may be readily sold in a secondary market at prices reflecting fair value must be secured by a pledge as collateral of

(1) investments authorized for the permanent fund under (a)(1), (2), or (4) of this section;

(2) obligations of the State of Alaska or instrumentalities of the state that are rated at least "A" by a major bond rating service and have a demonstrated secondary market; or

(3) letters of credit issued by an agency of or enterprise sponsored by the United States government, including the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

(c) Investments or obligations pledged as collateral under (b) of this section must have value at least equal to the face value of the certificates of deposit being secured. The APFC may require substitution of collateral in order to ensure continued satisfaction of the requirements set out in (b) of this section.

(d) The aggregate value of investments made under (a)(8) and (10) of this section may not exceed 15 percent of the total value of the permanent fund.

History: Eff. 1/1/2006, Register 177

Authority: AS 37.13.120

AS 37.13.206


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