NM Trivia
In 2021, NM passed this milestone for in-force death benefit.
What is $2 trillion?
This cryptocurrency trading firm declared bankruptcy in 2022/2023 after a 60% decline in cryptocurrency values.
What is FTX?
This was the name of Prince Harry's controversial memoir, published in January 2023.
What is 'Spare?'
This term describes securities that move in the opposite direction of an economic cycle.
What is "countercyclical?"
These two components of the dividend make up nearly 65% of the dividend payout.
What are mortality and expense?
This term is one of the three pillars NM's products are built on and represents how we share in profits and success with our policyowners instead of shareholders.
What is mutuality?
In 2009 this person pled guilty to perpetrating the largest ponzi scheme in history.
Who is Bernie Madoff?
Rihanna revealed this during her 2003 Super Bowl halftime show.
What is her pregnancy?
This two-word term describes the optimal risk versus return tradoff for a portfolio.
What is efficient frontier?
This risk product line does not pay a dividend.
What is Long Term Care?
This catastrophic accident in 1859 killed two NM policyholders and nearly bankrupted the company.
What is a train collision?
This venerable Wall Street firm declared bankruptcy in 2007, triggering the 2008 financial crisis.
What is Lehman Brothers?
In April 2023, this country became the 31st member of NATO.
What is Finland?
What is 1 year (289 days to be exact)?
NM's 2024 dividend payout was $7.3B, nearly this many times that of our closest competitor.
What is 3x?
NM's had this industry-leading share of the US personal life insurance market in 2022.
Fraudulent accounting practices led to this energy firm's bankruptcy in 2001, the 2nd largest in US history.
What is Enron?
This social media platform, designed by Meta, was released in 2023 as a competitor to Twitter/X.
What is Threads?
The price of this type of security is derived from one or more underlying assets.
What is a derivative?
This was the year that Northwestern Mutual paid out its first dividends.
What is 1872?
NM's rank in the 2023 Fortune 500.
What is 111th? (108th to 114th accepted)
This crisis was triggered by a combination of predatory lending practices, securitization of subprime mortgages, and a housing market bubble.
What is the Subprime Mortgage Crisis?
This woman won the women's singles title at the 2023 US Open.
Who is Coco Gauff?
Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan used this two-word term to describe the growing internet stock price bubble in the late 1990s.
What is Irrational Exuberance?
This number/percent is the difference between the guaranteed interest rate and the non-loan dividend interest rate (DIR) for 2024.
What is 1.15% (115 bps)?