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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q


(Mark One)
ý		QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 2010
or
o		TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition Period from to

Commission File No. 001-32141

ASSURED GUARANTY LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Bermuda (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		98-0429991 (I.R.S. employer identification no.)
30 Woodbourne Avenue Hamilton HM 08 Bermuda (Address of principal executive offices)

(441) 279-5700
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ý No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes o No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definition of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.


Large accelerated filer ý		Accelerated filer o		Non-accelerated filer o (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)		Smaller reporting company o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No ý

The number of registrant's Common Shares ($0.01 par value) outstanding as of April 30, 2010 was 184,361,050 (excludes 217,269 unvested restricted shares).

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ASSURED GUARANTY LTD.

INDEX TO FORM 10-Q



PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
	Item 1.	Financial Statements:
		Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited) as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009	1
		Consolidated Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2010 and 2009	2
		Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (unaudited) for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2010 and 2009	3
		Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity (unaudited) for the Three Months ended March 31, 2010	4
		Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2010 and 2009	5
		Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)	6
	Item 2.	Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	101
		Forward-Looking Statements	101
		Website Information	102
		Executive Summary	102
		Financial Strength Ratings	110
		AGMH Acquisition	112
		Insured Portfolio Profile	115
		Results of Operations	118
		Exposure to Residential Mortgage Backed Securities	144
		Summary of relationships with Monolines	151
		Non-GAAP Measures	152
		Liquidity and Capital Resources	154
	Item 3.	Market Risk	173
	Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	176
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
	Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	176
	Item 1A.	Risk Factors	180
	Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	183
	Item 6.	Exhibits	183

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Consolidated Balance Sheets (Unaudited)

(dollars in thousands except per share and share amounts)

			March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009

ASSETS
Investment portfolio:
	Fixed maturity securities, available-for-sale, at fair value (amortized cost of $8,865,859 and $8,943,909)		$	9,057,230	$	9,139,900
	Short term investments, at fair value			1,421,421		1,668,279

		Total investment portfolio		10,478,651		10,808,179
Assets acquired in refinancing transactions				143,488		152,411
Cash				90,472		44,133
Premiums receivable, net of ceding commissions payable				1,371,582		1,418,232
Ceded unearned premium reserve				926,227		1,051,971
Deferred acquisition costs				244,024		241,961
Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid losses				17,834		14,122
Credit derivative assets				537,050		492,531
Committed capital securities, at fair value				8,262		9,537
Deferred tax asset, net				1,132,059		1,158,205
Salvage and subrogation recoverable				261,774		239,476
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' assets				1,868,596		762,303
Other assets				308,435		200,375

	TOTAL ASSETS		$	17,388,454	$	16,593,436

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Unearned premium reserves			$	7,720,942	$	8,219,390
Loss and loss adjustment expense reserve				361,272		289,470
Long-term debt				919,493		917,362
Notes payable				142,403		149,051
Credit derivative liabilities				1,821,961		2,034,634
Reinsurance balances payable, net				185,398		186,744
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities with recourse				2,067,215		762,652
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities without recourse				205,724		—
Other liabilities				345,011		513,974

	TOTAL LIABILITIES			13,769,419		13,073,277

COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Common stock ($0.01 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized; 184,345,013 and 184,162,896 shares issued and outstanding in 2010 and 2009)				1,843		1,842
Additional paid-in capital				2,589,454		2,584,983
Retained earnings				885,344		789,869
Accumulated other comprehensive income, net of deferred tax provision (benefit) of $47,982 and $58,551				140,394		141,814
Deferred equity compensation (181,818 shares)				2,000		2,000

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO ASSURED GUARANTY LTD			3,619,035		3,520,508
Noncontrolling interest of financial guaranty variable interest entities				—		(349	)

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY			3,619,035		3,520,159

	TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY		$	17,388,454	$	16,593,436

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Consolidated Statements of Operations (Unaudited)

(dollars in thousands except per share amounts)

			Three Months Ended March 31,

			2010			2009
Revenues
Net earned premiums			$	319,560		$	148,446
Net investment income				84,302			43,601
Net realized investment gains (losses):
	Other-than-temporary impairment ("OTTI") losses			(1,117	)		(18,446	)
	Less: portion of OTTI loss recognized in other comprehensive income			(661	)		—
	Other net realized investment gains (losses)			9,869			1,336

		Net realized investment gains (losses)		9,413			(17,110	)
Net change in fair value of credit derivatives:
	Realized gains and other settlements			26,703			20,579
	Net unrealized gains (losses)			252,098			26,982

		Net change in fair value of credit derivatives		278,801			47,561
Fair value gain (loss) on committed capital securities				(1,275	)		19,666
Financial guaranty variable interest entities revenues				4,188			—
Other income				(11,104	)		902

	Total Revenues			683,885			243,066

Expenses
Loss and loss adjustment expenses				130,501			79,754
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs				8,173			23,421
Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc. ("AGMH") acquisition-related expenses				4,021			4,621
Interest expense				25,134			5,821
Financial guaranty variable interest entities expenses				14,778			—
Other operating expenses				64,358			29,352

	Total expenses			246,965			142,969

Income before income taxes				436,920			100,097
Provision (benefit) for income taxes
Current				(38,953	)		11,575
Deferred				153,898			3,033

Total provision (benefit) for income taxes				114,945			14,608

	Net income			321,975			85,489
Less: Noncontrolling interest of variable interest entities				—			—

Net income attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.			$	321,975		$	85,489

Earnings per share:
	Basic		$	1.74		$	0.94
	Diluted		$	1.69		$	0.93
Dividends per share			$	0.045		$	0.045

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Unaudited)

(in thousands)

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010			2009
Net income	$	321,975		$	85,489
Unrealized holding gains (losses) arising during the period on:
Investments with no OTTI, net of deferred income tax provision (benefit) of $(5,382) and $4,585		9,875			(9,702	)
Investments with OTTI, net of deferred income tax provision (benefit) of $0 and $0		(661	)		—

Unrealized holding gains (losses) during the period, net of tax		9,214			(9,702	)
Less: reclassification adjustment for gains (losses) included in net income (loss), net of deferred income tax provision (benefit) of $2,768 and $(35)		6,645			(17,075	)

Change in net unrealized gains on investments		2,569			7,373
Change in cumulative translation adjustment		(3,884	)		(8,387	)
Cash flow hedge		(105	)		(105	)

Other comprehensive income (loss)		(1,420	)		(1,119	)

Comprehensive income	$	320,555		$	84,370

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity (Unaudited)

For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

(dollars in thousands, except share data)

																		Total Shareholders' Equity Attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.			Noncontrolling Interest of Financial Guaranty Consolidated Variable Interest Entities

	Common Stock												Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
	Common Stock						Additional Paid-in Capital			Retained Earnings						Deferred Equity Compensation								Total Shareholders' Equity
	Shares			Amount			Additional Paid-in Capital			Retained Earnings						Deferred Equity Compensation								Total Shareholders' Equity
Balance, December 31, 2009		184,162,896		$	1,842		$	2,584,983		$	789,869		$	141,814		$	2,000	$	3,520,508		$	(349	)	$	3,520,159
Cumulative effect of accounting change—consolidation of variable interest entities effective January 1, 2010 (Note 23)		—			—			—			(218,144	)		—			—		(218,144	)		349			(217,795	)

Balance at the beginning of the year, adjusted		184,162,896			1,842			2,584,983			571,725			141,814			2,000		3,302,364			—			3,302,364
Net income		—			—			—			321,975			—			—		321,975			—			321,975
Dividends on common stock ($0.045 per share)		—			—			—			(8,305	)		—			—		(8,305	)		—			(8,305	)
Dividends on restricted stock units		—			—			51			(51	)		—			—		—			—			—
Shares cancelled to pay withholding taxes		(62,748	)		(1	)		(2,695	)		—			—			—		(2,696	)		—			(2,696	)
Stock options exercises		10,658			—			113									—		113			—			113
Share-based compensation and other		234,207			2			7,002			—			—			—		7,004			—			7,004
Change in cash flow hedge, net of tax of $(56)		—			—			—			—			(105	)		—		(105	)		—			(105	)
Change in cumulative translation adjustment		—			—			—			—			(3,884	)		—		(3,884	)		—			(3,884	)
Unrealized gain on investments, net of tax of $(8,150)		—			—			—			—			2,569			—		2,569			—			2,569

Balance, March 31, 2010		184,345,013		$	1,843		$	2,589,454		$	885,344		$	140,394		$	2,000	$	3,619,035		$	—		$	3,619,035

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (Unaudited)

(in thousands)

			Three Months Ended March 31,

			2010			2009
Operating activities
Net income			$	321,975		$	85,489
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash flows provided by operating activities:
	Non-cash interest and operating expenses			10,124			4,795
	Net amortization of premium on fixed maturity securities			17,680			(1,819	)
	Accretion of discount on net premium receivable			(12,609	)		(5,287	)
	Provision for deferred income taxes			153,898			3,033
	Net realized investment losses (gains)			(9,413	)		17,110
	Unrealized (gains) on credit derivatives			(252,098	)		(26,982	)
	Fair value loss (gain) on committed capital securities			1,275			(19,666	)
	Other income			32,162			—
	Change in deferred acquisition costs			(2,063	)		7,927
	Change in premiums receivable, net of ceding commissions			13,269			(5,946	)
	Change in ceded unearned premium reserves			125,744			1,826
	Change in unearned premium reserves			(432,905	)		91,945
	Change in reserves for losses and loss adjustment expenses, net			55,878			13,870
	Change in current income taxes			(203,132	)		26,005
	Other changes in credit derivatives assets and liabilities, net			(5,094	)		(2,856	)
	Change in financial guaranty variable interest entities assets and liabilities, net			(10,230	)		—
	Other			(41,051	)		(22,427	)

Net cash flows provided by (used by) operating activities				(236,590	)		167,017

Investing activities
	Fixed maturity securities:
		Purchases		(418,032	)		(289,219	)
		Sales		187,800			274,260
		Maturities		265,268			3,500
	Net (purchases) sales of short-term investments			246,001			(139,622	)
	Proceeds from financial guaranty variable interest entities assets			60,687			—
	Other			4,867			—

Net cash flows provided by (used for) investing activities				346,591			(151,081	)

Financing activities
	Dividends paid			(8,305	)		(4,122	)
	Repurchases of common stock			—			(3,676	)
	Share activity under option and incentive plans			(2,583	)		(942	)
	Paydown of financial guaranty variable interest entities liabilities			(46,157	)		—
	Repayment of notes payable			(6,363	)		—

Net cash flows provided by (used for) financing activities				(63,408	)		(8,740	)
Effect of exchange rate changes				(254	)		(173	)

Increase in cash				46,339			7,023
Cash at beginning of period				44,133			12,305

Cash at end of period			$	90,472		$	19,328

Supplemental cash flow information
Cash paid (received) during the period for:
	Income taxes		$	136,645		$	(14,514	)
	Interest		$	11,963		$	—
Claims paid, net of reinsurance			$	256,809		$	74,807

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited)

March 31, 2010

1. Business and Organization

Assured Guaranty Ltd. ("AGL" and, together with its subsidiaries, "Assured Guaranty" or the "Company") is a Bermuda-based holding company that provides, through its operating subsidiaries, credit protection products to the public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets in the United States ("U.S.") as well as internationally. The Company applies its credit underwriting expertise, risk management skills and capital markets experience to develop insurance, reinsurance and credit derivative products. The Company's primary product is a guaranty of principal and interest payments on debt securities. These securities include municipal finance obligations issued by U.S. state or municipal governmental authorities, utility districts or facilities; notes or bonds issued for international infrastructure projects; and asset-backed securities ("ABS") issued by special purpose entities ("SPEs"). The Company markets its credit protection products directly to issuers and underwriters of public finance, infrastructure and structured finance securities as well as to investors in such debt obligations. The Company guarantees debt obligations issued in many countries, although its principal focus is on the U.S. and European markets.

On July 1, 2009 (the "Acquisition Date"), the Company acquired Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. (renamed Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc., "AGMH"), and AGMH's subsidiaries, including Financial Security Assurance Inc. (renamed Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., "AGM"), from Dexia Holdings, Inc. ("Dexia Holdings"). As discussed further in Note 2, Assured Guaranty's acquisition of AGMH (the "AGMH Acquisition") did not include the acquisition of AGMH's former financial products business, which was comprised of its guaranteed investment contracts ("GICs") business, its medium term notes ("MTNs") business and the equity payment agreements associated with AGMH's leveraged lease business (the "Financial Products Business").

AGL's principal operating subsidiaries are Assured Guaranty Corp. ("AGC"), AGM and Assured Guaranty Re Ltd. ("AG Re").

The Company is a leading provider of financial guaranty credit protection products. This achievement resulted from a combination of factors, including AGL's acquisition of AGMH in 2009, the Company's ability to achieve and maintain high investment-grade financial strength ratings, and the significant financial distress faced by many of the Company's competitors since 2007, which has impaired their ability to underwrite new business.

Since July 1, 2009, when the AGMH Acquisition closed, the Company has conducted its financial guaranty business on a direct basis from two distinct platforms: (1) AGM, focusing exclusively on the U.S. public finance and global infrastructure business and (2) AGC, underwriting global structured finance transactions as well as U.S. public finance and global infrastructure obligations.

Segments

The Company's business includes two principal segments: financial guaranty direct and financial guaranty reinsurance. The financial guaranty direct and reinsurance segments include financial guaranties of residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS") and commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS"). The Company's mortgage guaranty insurance business, which used to be a segment and has had no new activity in recent years, and other lines of business that were 100% ceded upon Assured Guaranty's initial public offering ("IPO") in 2004, are shown as "other". The direct segment is reported net of business ceded to external reinsurers. The financial guaranty segments

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (Continued)

March 31, 2010

1. Business and Organization (Continued)

include contracts accounted for as both insurance and credit derivatives. These segments are further discussed in Note 21.

Current Status of Ratings

Debt obligations guaranteed by AGL's insurance subsidiaries are generally awarded debt credit ratings that are the same rating as the financial strength rating of the AGL subsidiary that has guaranteed that obligation.

As of April 30, 2010, the following insurance subsidiaries of AGL were rated AAA (negative outlook) by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services ("S&P") and Aa3 (negative outlook) by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"):

•: AGC
•: Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd. ("AGUK")
•: AGM
•: Assured Guaranty (Europe) Ltd. (formerly Financial Security Assurance (U.K.) Limited, "AGE")
•: FSA Insurance Company ("FSAIC")
•: Financial Security Assurance International Ltd. ("FSA International").

All of these ratings are subject to continuous review and there can be no assurance that rating agencies will not take action on the Company's ratings, including downgrading such ratings. The Company's business and its financial condition has been and will continue to be subject to risk of the global financial and economic conditions that could materially and negatively affect the demand for its products, the amount of losses incurred on transactions it guarantees, and its financial strength ratings.

2. AGMH Acquisition

On the Acquisition Date, AGL, through its wholly owned subsidiary Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc. ("AGUS"), purchased AGMH and, indirectly, its subsidiaries (excluding those involved in AGMH's former Financial Products Business) from Dexia Holdings. The acquired companies are collectively referred to as the "Acquired Companies." The AGMH subsidiaries that conducted AGMH's former Financial Products Business (the "Financial Products Companies") were sold to Dexia Holdings prior to the AGMH Acquisition. In connection with the AGMH Acquisition, Dexia Holdings agreed to assume the risks in respect of the Financial Products Business and AGM agreed to retain the risks relating to the debt and strip policy portions of such business. Accordingly, the Company has entered into various agreements with Dexia SA and certain of its affiliates (together, "Dexia") in order to transfer to Dexia the credit risks and, as discussed further in Note 17, the liquidity risks associated with AGMH's former Financial Products Business.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (Continued)

March 31, 2010

2. AGMH Acquisition (Continued)

The Company is indemnified against exposure to AGMH's former financial products segment through guaranties issued by Dexia SA and certain of its affiliates. In addition, the Company is protected from exposure to such GIC business through guaranties issued by the French and Belgian governments. Furthermore, to support the payment obligations of the Financial Products Companies, Dexia SA and its affiliate Dexia Crédit Local S.A. ("DCL") has entered into two separate ISDA Master Agreements, each with its associated schedule, confirmation and credit support annex (the "Guaranteed Put Contract" and the "Non-Guaranteed Put Contract" respectively, and collectively, the "Dexia Put Contracts"), pursuant to which Dexia SA and DCL jointly and severally guarantee the scheduled payments of interest and principal in relation to each asset of FSA Asset Management LLC ("FSAM"), which is one of the Financial Products Companies, as well as any failure of Dexia to provide liquidity or liquid collateral under certain liquidity facilities.

AGMH is now a wholly owned subsidiary of AGUS and the Company's financial statements subsequent to the Acquisition Date include the activities of the Acquired Companies.

The purchase price paid by the Company was $546.0 million in cash and 22.3 million common shares of AGL with an Acquisition Date fair value of $275.9 million, for a total purchase price of $821.9 million.

At the closing of the AGMH Acquisition, Dexia Holdings owned approximately 14.0% of AGL's issued common shares. Effective August 13, 2009, Dexia Holdings transferred such AGL common shares to Dexia SA, acting through its French branch. On March 16, 2010, Dexia SA sold all of such AGL common shares in a secondary public offering.

The AGMH Acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). Accordingly, the purchase price was allocated to assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair value at the Acquisition Date. In many cases, determining the fair value of acquired assets and assumed liabilities required the Company to exercise significant judgment. The most significant of these determinations related to the valuation of the acquired financial guaranty direct and ceded contracts.

The fair value of the deferred premium revenue (which is a component of unearned premium reserve, as described below) is the estimated premium that a similarly rated hypothetical financial guarantor would demand to assume each policy. The methodology for determining such value takes into account the rating of the insured obligation, expectation of loss, sector and term. On January 1, 2009, new accounting guidance became effective for financial guaranty insurance which requires a Company to recognize loss reserves only to the extent expected losses exceed deferred premium revenue. As the fair value of the deferred premium revenue exceeded the Company's estimate of expected loss for each contract, no loss reserves were recorded at July 1, 2009 for the Acquired Companies' contracts.

Based on the Company's assumptions, the fair value of the Acquired Companies' deferred premium revenue on its insurance contracts was $7.3 billion at July 1, 2009, an amount approximately $1.7 billion greater than the Acquired Companies' gross stand ready obligations at June 30, 2009. This indicates that the amounts of the Acquired Companies' contractual premiums were less than the premiums a market participant of similar credit quality would demand to acquire those contracts at the

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (Continued)

March 31, 2010

2. AGMH Acquisition (Continued)

Acquisition Date. The fair value of the Acquired Companies' ceded contracts at July 1, 2009 was an asset of $1.7 billion and recorded in ceded unearned premium reserve. The fair value of the ceded contracts is in part derived from the fair value of the related insurance contracts with an adjustment for the credit quality of each reinsurer applied.

For AGMH's long-term debt, the fair value was based upon quoted market prices available from third-party brokers as of the Acquisition Date. The fair value of this debt was approximately $0.3 billion lower than its carrying value immediately prior to the AGMH Acquisition. This discount is being amortized into interest expense over the estimated remaining life of the debt.

Additionally, other purchase accounting adjustments included (1) the write off of the Acquired Companies' deferred acquisition cost ("DAC") and (2) the consolidation of certain financial guaranty variable interest entities ("VIEs") in which the combined variable interest of the Acquired Companies and AG Re was determined to be the primary beneficiary. Effective January 1, 2010, the Company deconsolidated these financial guaranty VIEs in accordance with new GAAP guidance as discussed in Note 23.

The bargain purchase gain was recorded within "Goodwill and settlement of pre-existing relationship" in the Company's consolidated statements of operations at the Acquisition Date. The bargain purchase resulted from the unprecedented credit crisis, which resulted in a significant decline in AGMH's franchise value due to material insured losses, ratings downgrades and significant losses at Dexia. Dexia required government intervention in its affairs, resulting in motivation to sell AGMH, and with the absence of potential purchasers of AGMH due to the financial crisis, the Company was able to negotiate a bargain purchase price. The initial difference between the purchase price of $822 million and AGMH's recorded net assets of $2.1 billion was reduced significantly by the recognition of additional liabilities related to AGMH's insured portfolio on a fair value basis as required by purchase accounting.

The Company and the Acquired Companies had a pre-existing reinsurance relationship. Under GAAP, this pre-existing relationship must be effectively settled at fair value. The loss relating to this pre-existing relationship resulted from the effective settlement of reinsurance contracts at fair value and the write-off of previously recorded assets and liabilities relating to this relationship recorded in the Company's historical accounts. The loss related to the contract settlement results from contractual premiums that were less than the Company's estimate of what a market participant would demand currently, estimated in a manner similar to how the value of the Acquired Companies insurance policies were valued, as well as related acquisition costs as described above.

Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations

The following unaudited pro forma information presents the combined results of operations of Assured Guaranty and the Acquired Companies. The unaudited pro forma combined financial information is presented for illustrative purposes only and does not indicate the financial results of the combined company had the companies actually been combined as of January 1, 2009, nor is it indicative of the results of operations in future periods.

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Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Unaudited) (Continued)

March 31, 2010

2. AGMH Acquisition (Continued)

Pro Forma Unaudited Results of Operations
As of March 31, 2009

	Revenues		Net Income Attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		Net Income per Basic Share

	(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Assured Guaranty as reported	$	243,066	$	85,489	$	0.94
Pro Forma Combined		1,097,551		469,159		3.04

3. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments which are of a normal recurring nature, necessary for a fair statement of the Company's financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements cover the three-month period ended March 31, 2010 ("First Quarter 2010") and the three-month period ended March 31, 2009 ("First Quarter 2009"). Results of operations for the three-month period ended March 31, 2010 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for a full year. The First Quarter 2010 financial statements include the effects of the Company's common share and equity units offerings that took place in 2009 and the effects of the AGMH Acquisition, which was effective July 1, 2009.

Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated. Certain prior year balances have been reclassified to conform to the current year's presentation.

These unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's consolidated financial statements included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").

Certain of AGL's subsidiaries are subject to U.S. and U.K. income tax. The Company's provision for income taxes for interim financial periods is not based on an estimated annual effective rate due to the variability in changes in fair value of its credit derivatives, which prevents the Company from projecting a reliable estimated annual effective tax rate and pre-tax income for the full year of 2010. A discrete calculation of the provision is calculated for each interim period.

The past couple of years saw volatility and disruption in the global financial markets including depressed home prices and increased foreclosures, falling equity market values, rising unemployment, declining business and consumer confidence and the risk of increased inflation, which have precipitated an economic slowdown. While there have been signs of a recovery as seen by stabilizing unemployment

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and home prices as well as rising equity markets, there can be no assurance that volatility and disruption will not return to these markets in the near term. These conditions may adversely affect the Company's future profitability, financial position, investment portfolio, cash flow, statutory capital, financial strength ratings and stock price. Additionally, future legislative, regulatory or judicial changes in the jurisdictions regulating the Company may adversely affect its ability to pursue its current mix of business, materially impacting its financial results.

4. Recent Accounting Pronouncements

On January 1, 2010, the Company adopted new accounting guidance as required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") that changed how a company determines when an entity that is insufficiently capitalized or is not controlled through voting (or similar rights) should be consolidated. See Note 23.

Effective March 31, 2010, the Company adopted new accounting guidance as required by the FASB that clarifies existing disclosure requirements for fair value measurements. This new guidance requires the disclosure of (1) the amounts and nature of transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 measurements; (2) purchase, sale, issuance and settlement activity for Level 3 measurements presented on a gross rather than a net basis; (3) fair value measurements by Level presented on a more disaggregated basis, by asset or liability class; and (4) more detailed disclosures about inputs and valuation techniques for Level 2 and Level 3 measurements for interim and annual reporting periods. The adoption of this disclosure guidance did not have a significant impact on the Company's fair value disclosures for the period ended March 31, 2010. See Note 9.

5. Outstanding Exposure

The Company's insurance policies and credit derivative contracts typically guarantee the scheduled payments of principal and interest on public finance and structured finance obligations. The gross amount of in force exposure (principal and interest) was $1,078.7 billion at March 31, 2010 and $1,095.0 billion at December 31, 2009. The net amount of in force exposure (principal and interest), which deducts amounts ceded to third party insurers, was $958.2 billion at March 31, 2010 and $958.3 billion at December 31, 2009.

The Company seeks to limit its exposure to losses from writing financial guaranty insurance and credit derivatives by underwriting obligations that are investment grade ("IG") at inception, diversifying its portfolio and maintaining rigorous subordination or collateralization requirements on structured finance obligations, as well as through reinsurance.

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5. Outstanding Exposure (Continued)

The par outstanding of insured obligations in the public finance insured portfolio includes the following amounts by type of issue:

Summary of Public Finance Insured Portfolio

			Gross Par Outstanding				Ceded Par Outstanding				Net Par Outstanding

Types of Issues			March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009		March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009		March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009
			(in millions)
U.S.:
	General obligation		$	200,139	$	201,264	$	18,877	$	22,880	$	181,262	$	178,384
	Tax backed			94,484		94,825		10,073		11,796		84,411		83,029
	Municipal utilities			78,039		77,872		6,713		8,294		71,326		69,578
	Transportation			42,575		42,540		6,204		7,243		36,371		35,297
	Healthcare			28,097		28,214		5,555		6,205		22,542		22,009
	Higher education			16,297		16,399		1,088		1,267		15,209		15,132
	Housing			8,393		9,623		887		1,099		7,506		8,524
	Infrastructure finance			5,190		4,530		975		977		4,215		3,553
	Investor-owned utilities			1,734		1,694		2		4		1,732		1,690
	Other public finance—U.S.			5,615		6,002		77		120		5,538		5,882

		Total public finance—U.S.		480,563		482,963		50,451		59,885		430,112		423,078
Non-U.S.:
	Infrastructure finance			18,691		19,404		2,944		3,060		15,747		16,344
	Regulated utilities			18,411		18,979		4,946		5,128		13,465		13,851
	Pooled infrastructure			4,403		4,684		263		280		4,140		4,404
	Other public finance—non-U.S.			10,321		10,485		2,267		2,309		8,054		8,176

		Total public finance—non-U.S.		51,826		53,552		10,420		10,777		41,406		42,775

Total public finance obligations			$	532,389	$	536,515	$	60,871	$	70,662	$	471,518	$	465,853

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5. Outstanding Exposure (Continued)

The par outstanding of insured obligations in the structured finance insured portfolio includes the following amounts by type of collateral:

Summary of Structured Finance Insured Portfolio

			Gross Par Outstanding				Ceded Par Outstanding				Net Par Outstanding

Types of Collateral			March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009		March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009		March 31, 2010		December 31, 2009
			(in millions)
U.S.:
	Pooled corporate obligations		$	81,045	$	82,622	$	8,159	$	8,289	$	72,886	$	74,333
	Residential mortgage-backed and home equity			30,081		31,033		1,791		1,857		28,290		29,176
	Financial products(1)			9,653		10,251		—		—		9,653		10,251
	Consumer receivables			7,762		9,314		395		441		7,367		8,873
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities			7,411		7,463		53		53		7,358		7,410
	Commercial receivables			2,395		2,485		3		3		2,392		2,482
	Structured credit			2,678		2,738		131		131		2,547		2,607
	Insurance securitizations			1,731		1,731		80		80		1,651		1,651
	Other structured finance—U.S.			2,587		2,754		1,187		1,236		1,400		1,518

		Total structured finance—U.S.		145,343		150,391		11,799		12,090		133,544		138,301
Non-U.S.:
	Pooled corporate obligations			26,569		27,743		2,910		3,046		23,659		24,697
	Residential mortgage-backed and home equity			5,277		5,623		379		396		4,898		5,227
	Structured credit			2,067		2,285		146		216		1,921		2,069
	Commercial receivables			1,659		1,908		36		36		1,623		1,872
	Insurance securitizations			995		995		15		14		980		981
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities			696		752		—		—		696		752
	Consumer receivables			252		—		91		—		161		—
	Other structured finance—non-U.S.			489		717		24		47		465		670

		Total structured finance—non-U.S.		38,004		40,023		3,601		3,755		34,403		36,268

Total structured finance obligations			$	183,347	$	190,414	$	15,400	$	15,845	$	167,947	$	174,569

(1): As discussed in Note 2, this represents the exposure to AGM's financial guaranties of GICs issued by AGMH's former financial products companies. This exposure is guaranteed by Dexia SA and certain of its affiliates. The Company is also protected by guaranties issued by the French and Belgian governments.

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5. Outstanding Exposure (Continued)

The following table sets forth the net financial guaranty par outstanding by rating:

		March 31, 2010					December 31, 2009

Ratings(1)		Net Par Outstanding		% of Net Par Outstanding			Net Par Outstanding		% of Net Par Outstanding
		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	34,830		5.4	%	$	43,353		6.8	%
AAA			64,226		10.0			59,786		9.3
AA			198,699		31.1			196,859		30.7
A			236,950		37.1			233,200		36.4
BBB			79,222		12.4			82,059		12.8
Below investment grade ("BIG") (See Note 6)			25,538		4.0			25,165		4.0

	Total exposures	$	639,465		100.0	%	$	640,422		100.0	%

(1): Represents the Company's internal rating. The Company's ratings scale is similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies. The super senior category, which is not generally used by rating agencies, is used by the Company in instances where the Company's triple-A-rated exposure has additional credit enhancement due to either (1) the existence of another security rated triple-A that is subordinated to the Company's exposure or (2) the Company's exposure benefits from a different form of credit enhancement that would pay any claims first in the event that any of the exposures incurs a loss, and such credit enhancement, in management's opinion, causes the Company's attachment point to be materially above the triple-A attachment point.

As part of its financial guaranty business, the Company enters into credit derivative transactions. In such transactions, the buyer of protection pays the seller of protection a periodic fee in fixed basis points on a notional amount. In return, the seller makes a contingent payment to the buyer if one or more defined credit events occurs with respect to one or more third party referenced securities or loans. A credit event may be a nonpayment event such as a failure to pay, bankruptcy, or restructuring, as negotiated by the parties to the credit derivative transaction. The total notional amount of insured credit derivative exposure outstanding which is accounted for at fair value as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 and included in the Company's financial guaranty exposure in the tables above was $119.0 billion and $122.4 billion, respectively. See Note 8.

6. Significant Risk Management Activities

Surveillance personnel are responsible for monitoring and reporting on all transactions in the insured portfolio, including exposures in both financial guaranty insurance and credit derivative form. The primary objective of the surveillance process is to monitor trends and changes in transaction credit quality, detect any deterioration in credit quality, and recommend to management such remedial actions as may be necessary or appropriate. All transactions in the insured portfolio are assigned internal credit ratings, and Surveillance personnel are responsible for recommending adjustments to those ratings to reflect changes in transaction credit quality.

Work-out personnel are responsible for managing work-out and loss situations. They develop strategies designed to enhance the ability of the Company to enforce its contractual rights and

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remedies and to mitigate its losses, engage in negotiation discussions with transaction participants and, when necessary, manage the Company's litigation proceedings.

The Company segregates its insured portfolio of IG and BIG risks into surveillance categories to facilitate the appropriate allocation of resources to monitoring and loss mitigation efforts and to aid in establishing the appropriate cycle for periodic review for each exposure. BIG credits include all credits internally rated lower than BBB-. The Company's internal credit ratings are based on the Company's internal assessment of the likelihood of default. The Company's internal credit ratings are expressed on a ratings scale similar to that used by the rating agencies and are generally reflective of an approach similar to that employed by the rating agencies.

The Company monitors its IG credits to determine whether any new credits need to be internally downgraded to BIG. Quarterly procedures include qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Company's insured portfolio to identify potential new BIG credits. The Company refreshes its internal credit ratings on individual credits in cycles based on the Company's view of the credit's quality, loss potential, volatility and sector. Ratings on credits in sectors identified as under the most stress or with the most potential volatility are reviewed every quarter. Credits identified through this process as BIG are subjected to further review by Surveillance personnel to determine the various probabilities of a loss. Surveillance personnel present analysis related to potential loss scenarios to the reserve committee.

Below Investment Grade Surveillance Categories

Within the BIG category, the Company assigns each credit to one of three surveillance categories:

•: BIG Category 1: BIG transactions showing sufficient deterioration to make material losses possible, but for which expected losses do not exceed deferred premium revenue. Non-investment grade transactions on which liquidity claims have been paid are in this category. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.
•: BIG Category 2: BIG transactions for which expected losses have been established but for which no unreimbursed claims have yet been paid. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.
•: BIG Category 3: BIG transactions for which expected losses have been established and on which unreimbursed claims have been paid. Transactions remain in this category when claims have been paid and only a recoverable remains. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.

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6. Significant Risk Management Activities (Continued)

The tables below present the U.S. RMBS portfolio and ratings within the BIG category.

Financial Guaranty Insurance Exposure on U.S. RMBS Policies

			March 31, 2010

					BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG 1		BIG 2		BIG 3		Total
			(in millions)
First Lien U.S. RMBS:
	Prime First Lien		$	407	$	53	$	49	$	—	$	102
	Alt-A First Lien			2,426		237		1,469		163		1,869
	Alt-A Options ARM			2,773		584		1,782		252		2,618
	Subprime (including net interest margin ("NIMs")			4,882		930		1,524		45		2,499
Second Lien U.S. RMBS:
	Closed end second lien ("CES")			1,177		120		531		483		1,134
	Home equity lines of credit ("HELOC")			5,623		29		104		4,114		4,247

		Total	$	17,288	$	1,953	$	5,459	$	5,057	$	12,469

Financial Guaranty Insurance Exposure on U.S. RMBS Policies

			December 31, 2009

					BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG 1		BIG 2		BIG 3		Total
			(in millions)
First Lien U.S. RMBS:
	Prime First Lien		$	426	$	4	$	50	$	—	$	54
	Alt-A First Lien			2,470		208		1,441		173		1,822
	Alt-A Options ARM			2,858		596		2,096		—		2,692
	Subprime (including NIMs)			4,985		924		1,272		47		2,243
Second Lien U.S. RMBS:
	CES			1,212		123		535		509		1,167
	HELOCs			5,923		13		113		4,372		4,498

		Total	$	17,874	$	1,868	$	5,507	$	5,101	$	12,476

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts

Information in this note is only for contracts accounted for as financial guaranty insurance contracts.

Expected Collections of Gross Premiums Receivable, Net of Ceding Commissions(1)

		(in thousands)

2010 (April 1 - June 30)		$	73,866
2010 (July 1 - September 30)			40,064
2010 (October 1 - December 31)			71,750
2011			137,650
2012			121,342
2013			110,983
2014			101,053
2015 - 2019			413,430
2020 - 2024			297,993
2025 - 2029			215,625
After 2029			261,889

	Total expected collections	$	1,845,645

(1): Represents nominal amounts expected to be collected for all Assured Guaranty insurance subsidiaries.

The following table provides a reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances of gross premium receivable net of ceding commission payable:

Gross Premium Receivable, Net of Ceding Commissions Roll Forward(1)

			(in thousands)

Premium receivable, net at December 31, 2009			$	1,418,222
	Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle			(3,469	)

	Premium receivable, net at January 1, 2010			1,414,753
	Premium written, net			83,662
	Premium payments received, net			(114,824	)
	Adjustments to the premium receivable:
		Changes in the expected term of financial guaranty insurance contracts		9,685
		Accretion of the premium receivable discount		14,466
		Foreign exchange rate changes		(38,624	)
		Other adjustments		2,443

Premium receivable, net at March 31, 2010			$	1,371,561

(1): Excludes other segment.

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts (Continued)

The $(38.6) million foreign exchange rate change item above relates to future installment premiums due to the Company that are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Approximately 45% of the Company's installment premiums are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, primarily in Euros and Great British pounds. Premium receivable are considered a monetary asset under U.S. GAAP and are therefore revalued each reporting period with the change reflected in other income in the statement of operations.

Selected Information for Policies Paid in Installments

	March 31, 2010

	(dollars in thousands)
Premiums receivable, net of ceding commission payable	$	1,371,561
Deferred premium revenue		3,846,166
Weighted-average risk-free rate to discount premiums		3.4
Weighted-average period of premiums receivable (in years)		10.2

The following table presents the components of net premiums earned.

Net Premiums Earned(1)

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in thousands)
Scheduled net earned premiums		$	290,967	$	50,162
Acceleration of premium earnings(2)			15,324		90,287
Accretion of discount on premium receivable			12,609		5,287

	Total net earned premium	$	318,900	$	147,736

(1): Excludes $0.6 million and $0.7 million in net premium earned for other segment for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively.
(2): Reflects the unscheduled pre-payment or refundings of underlying insured obligations.

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts (Continued)

The unearned premium reserve, which is comprised of deferred premium revenues and claim payments made on policies where the payments are not in excess of the deferred premium revenue, is comprised of the following components:

		As of March 31, 2010									As of December 31, 2009

		Gross Unearned Premium Reserve(1)			Ceded Unearned Premium Reserve			Net Unearned Premium Reserve			Gross Unearned Premium Reserve(1)			Ceded Unearned Premium Reserve			Net Unearned Premium Reserve
		(in thousands)
Deferred premium revenue		$	8,150,989		$	989,727		$	7,161,262		$	8,536,682		$	1,095,593		$	7,441,089
Claim payments			(442,081	)		(63,500	)		(378,581	)		(329,986	)		(43,622	)		(286,364	)

	Total	$	7,708,908		$	926,227		$	6,782,681		$	8,206,696		$	1,051,971		$	7,154,725

(1): Excludes $12.0 million and $12.7 million in unearned premium reserve for other segment as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively.

The following table provides a schedule of how the Company's financial guaranty net unearned premiums and expected losses are expected to run off in the consolidated statement of operations, pre-tax. This table excludes amounts related to consolidated VIEs that were eliminated beginning January 1, 2010 under new VIE consolidation rules, as discussed in Note 23.

Expected Financial Guaranty Net Present Value Earned Premium and
Present Value Net Loss to be Expensed.

		As of March 31, 2010

		Expected PV Net Earned Premium(1)		Expected PV Net Loss to be Expensed(2)		Net
		(in thousands)
2010 (April 1 - June 30)		$	270,330	$	58,754	$	211,576
2010 (July 1 - September 30)			259,996		63,058		196,938
2010 (October 1 - December 31)			242,135		61,921		180,214
2011			768,662		198,609		570,053
2012			608,121		122,219		485,902
2013			524,577		96,094		428,483
2014			468,635		90,574		378,061
2015 - 2019			1,687,658		269,339		1,418,319
2020 - 2024			1,023,456		126,177		897,279
2025 - 2029			628,621		70,295		558,326
After 2029			679,071		61,705		617,366

	Total	$	7,161,262	$	1,218,745	$	5,942,517

(1): Excludes $378.6 million related to contra account, (claim payments that have not exceeded the deferred premium revenue for the policy), and $12.0 million in unearned premium reserve for other segment.

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(2): Balances represent discounted amounts. These amounts reflect the Company's estimate as of March 31, 2010 of expected losses to be expensed, are not included in loss and loss adjustment expense ("LAE") reserve because these losses are less than deferred premium revenue determined on a contract-by-contract basis.

The following table presents a rollforward of the net expected loss and LAE since December 31, 2009 by sector.

Financial Guaranty Insurance Net Expected Loss and Loss Adjustment
Expense Roll Forward by Sector(1)

				Expected Loss to be Paid as of December 31, 2009			Loss Development			Less: Paid Losses		Expected Loss to be Paid as of March 31, 2010

				(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Prime First lien		$	—		$	396		$	—	$	396
		Alt-A First lien			204,368			9,016			13,985		199,399
		Alt-A Options ARM			545,238			31,773			16,413		560,598
		Subprime			77,528			49,954			869		126,613

			Total First Lien		827,134			91,139			31,267		887,006
	Second Lien:
		CES			199,254			(42,300	)		20,475		136,479
		HELOCs			(232,913	)		89,868			148,979		(292,024	)

			Total Second Lien		(33,659	)		47,568			169,454		(155,545	)

Total US RMBS					793,475			138,707			200,721		731,461
Other structured finance					102,613			651			3,715		99,549
Public Finance					130,858			20,178			24,455		126,581

			Subtotal(1)		1,026,946			159,536			228,891		957,591
Elimination of consolidated VIEs					52,251			8,124			17,983		43,392

			Total	$	974,695		$	151,412		$	210,908	$	914,199

(1): Excludes $5.0 million and $5.2 million of expected losses related to other segment recorded in loss reserves on the consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively. Excludes LAE reserves.

Expected loss to be paid in the table above represents the present value of losses to be paid net of expected salvage and subrogation and reinsurance cessions. The amount of "expected loss to be paid" differs from "expected PV net loss to be expensed" due primarily to amounts paid that have not yet been expensed and salvage and subrogation not yet recognized in income.

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts (Continued)

Gross and ceded unearned premium reserve represents the stand ready obligation under GAAP. The carrying value of AGM's unearned premium reserve recorded on July 1, 2009 takes into account the total fair value of each financial guaranty contract on a contract by contract basis, less premiums receivable or premiums payable. Unearned premium reserve is comprised of deferred premium revenue (which represents future premium earnings) and a contra account representing claims paid (since July 1, for the AGM portfolio) that have not yet been expensed. Such claim payments reduce unearned premiums and therefore the unearned premium reserve represents the full stand-ready obligation to be reduced.

Loss reserves are recorded at the time, and for the amount of, expected losses in excess of deferred premiums revenue on a contract by contract basis. Loss expense is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations only when the sum of claim payments recorded as a contra account plus the present value of future expected losses exceeds deferred premium revenue.

In circumstances where total expected loss (sum of (a) accumulated claim payments since the Acquisition Date not yet expensed plus (b) present value of expected future loss or recovery) does not exceed deferred premium revenue, but accumulated claim payments since July 1, 2009 not yet expensed exceeded the deferred premium revenue, the amount of the accumulated claim payments equal to the deferred premium revenue amount on a contract by contract basis is offset in unearned premium reserve recorded on the consolidated balance sheet, and the excess of the accumulated claim payments since the Acquisition Date not yet expensed is recorded in salvage and subrogation recoverable (for the direct contracts) and salvage and subrogation payable (for any ceded portion) on the consolidated balance sheet. For the Company, this has occurred on several transactions because claim payments made prior to the Acquisition Date on AGMH transactions had not yet been recovered but are expected to be recovered in the future.

The Company's estimates of ultimate losses on a policy is subject to significant uncertainty over the life of the insured transaction due to the potential for significant variability in credit performance due to changing economic, fiscal and financial market variability over the long duration of most contracts. The determination of expected loss is an inherently subjective process involving numerous estimates, assumptions and judgments by management. The Company's estimates of expected losses on RMBS transactions takes into account expected recoveries from sellers and originators, of the underlying residential mortgages due to breaches in the originator's representations and warranties regarding the loans transferred to the RMBS transaction.

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts (Continued)

The following table provides information on financial guaranty insurance and reinsurance contracts categorized as BIG as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009:

Financial Guaranty BIG Transaction Loss Summary
March 31, 2010

			BIG Categories

			BIG 1			BIG 2		BIG 3			Total including VIEs			Elimination of Consolidated VIEs			Total
			(dollars in millions)
Number of risks				90			184		40			314			—			314
Remaining weighted-average contract period (in years)				8.9			8.7		9.4			9.0			—			9.0
Gross insured contractual payments outstanding:
	Principal		$	4,539		$	7,047	$	7,370		$	18,956		$	—		$	18,956
	Interest			1,600			3,142		1,947			6,689			—			6,689

		Total	$	6,139		$	10,189	$	9,317		$	25,645		$	—		$	25,645

Gross expected cash outflows for loss and LAE			$	385.1		$	2,376.5	$	1,797.5		$	4,559.1		$	89.1		$	4,470.0
Less:
	Gross potential recoveries(1)			411.1			811.5		1,629.3			2,851.9			54.7			2,797.2
	Discount			(27.5	)		557.6		155.0			685.1			(8.0	)		693.1

Present value of expected cash flows for loss and LAE			$	1.5		$	1,007.4	$	13.2		$	1,022.1		$	42.4		$	979.7

Deferred premium revenue			$	134.0		$	1,011.9	$	988.6		$	2,134.5		$	112.2		$	2,022.3
Gross reserves (salvage) for loss and LAE reported in the balance sheet			$	(12.0	)	$	203.9	$	(97.5	)	$	94.4		$	—		$	94.4
Reinsurance recoverable (payable)			$	(3.5	)	$	4.2	$	(2.5	)	$	(1.8	)	$	—		$	(1.8	)

(1): Includes estimated future recoveries for breaches of representations and warranties.

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Financial Guaranty BIG Transaction Loss Summary
December 31, 2009

			BIG Categories

			BIG 1			BIG 2		BIG 3			Total
			(dollars in millions)
Number of risks				97			161		37			295
Remaining weighted-average contract period (in years)				8.79			7.63		9.24			8.52
Gross insured contractual payments outstanding:
	Principal		$	4,230.9		$	6,804.6	$	6,671.6		$	17,707.1
	Interest			1,532.3			2,685.1		1,729.2			5,946.6

		Total	$	5,763.2		$	9,489.7	$	8,400.8		$	23,653.7

Gross expected cash outflows for loss and LAE			$	35.8		$	1,948.8	$	2,019.0		$	4,003.6
Less:
	Gross potential recoveries(1)			3.5			506.6		1,528.6			2,038.7
	Discount			18.3			419.8		213.3			651.4

Present value of expected cash flows for loss and LAE			$	14.0		$	1,022.5	$	277.1		$	1,313.5

Deferred premium revenue			$	49.3		$	1,187.3	$	919.2		$	2,155.8
Gross reserves (salvage) for loss and LAE reported in the balance sheet			$	(0.1	)	$	146.4	$	(101.5	)	$	44.8
Reinsurance recoverable (payable)			$	—		$	4.6	$	0.9		$	5.5

(1): Includes estimated future recoveries for breaches of representations and warranties.

The Company used weighted-average risk free rate ranging from 0% to 5.32% and 0.07% to 5.21% to discount expected losses as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively.

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The following table provides information on loss and LAE reserves net of reinsurance on the consolidated balance sheets.

Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves, Net of Reinsurance

					As of March 31, 2010		As of December 31, 2009

					(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Prime First lien			$	285	$	—
		Alt-A First lien				26,489		25,463
		Alt-A Options ARM				86,386		51,188
		Subprime				46,812		21,816

			Total First Lien			159,972		98,467
	Second Lien:
		CES				15,539		21,172
		HELOC				15,010		18,204

			Total Second Lien			30,549		39,376

Total US RMBS						190,521		137,843
Other structured finance						73,263		67,661
Public Finance						77,538		67,723

Total financial guaranty						341,322		273,227
Other						2,116		2,121

				Total	$	343,438	$	275,348

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The following table provides information on financial guaranty insurance and reinsurance contracts recorded as an asset on the consolidated balance sheets.

Summary of Recoverables Recorded as Salvage and Subrogation

					As of March 31, 2010		As of December 31, 2009

					(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Alt-A Options ARM			$	9,283	$	—
		Subprime				1,520		76

			Total First Lien			10,803		76
	Second Lien:
		CES				226		91
		HELOC				240,442		235,892

			Total Second Lien			240,668		235,983

Total US RMBS						251,471		236,059
Other structured finance						992		992
Public Finance						9,311		2,425

Total						261,774		239,476
Less: Ceded recoverable(1)						16,881		13,605

				Net recoverable	$	244,893	$	225,871

(1): Recorded in "reinsurance balances payable, net" on the consolidated balance sheets.

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Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses (Recoveries)
By Type

					Three Months Ended March 31,

					2010			2009
					(in thousands)
Financial Guaranty:
	U.S. RMBS:
		First Lien:
			Prime First lien		$	62		$	519
			Alt-A First lien			5,431			151
			Alt-A Options ARM			44,434			(74	)
			Subprime			24,713			811

				Total First Lien		74,640			1,407
		Second Lien:
			CES			4,345			1,998
			HELOC			23,620			18,520

				Total Second Lien		27,965			20,518

	Total U.S. RMBS					102,605			21,925
	Other structured finance					10,168			4,822
	Public Finance					27,691			21,707

Total Financial Guaranty						140,464			48,454
Other						18			31,300

		Subtotal				140,482			79,754
Losses incurred on consolidated financial guaranty VIEs						(9,981	)		—

		Total loss and LAE			$	130,501		$	79,754

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Net Losses Paid on Financial Guaranty Insurance Contracts

				Three Months Ended March 31,

				2010			2009
				(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Prime First lien		$	—		$	—
		Alt-A First lien			13,985			—
		Alt-A Options ARM			16,413			—
		Subprime			869			452

			Total First Lien		31,267			452
	Second Lien:
		CES			20,475			10,265
		HELOC			148,979			51,657

			Total Second Lien		169,454			61,922

Total US RMBS					200,721			62,374
Other structured finance					3,715			(6,005	)
Public Finance					24,455			7,518

			Subtotal		228,891			63,887
Losses paid on consolidated financial guaranty VIEs					(17,983	)		—

			Total	$	210,908		$	63,887

In accordance with the Company's standard practices the Company evaluated the most current available information as part of its loss reserving process, including trends in delinquencies and charge-offs on the underlying loans and its experience in requiring providers of representations and warranties to purchase ineligible loans out of these transactions.

U.S. Second Lien RMBS: CES and HELOCs

The Company insures two types of second lien RMBS, those secured by HELOCs and those secured by CES mortgages. HELOCs are revolving lines of credit generally secured by a second lien on a one to four family home. A mortgage for a fixed amount secured by a second lien on a one-to-four family home is generally referred to as a CES. The Company has material exposure to second lien mortgage loans originated and serviced by a number of parties, but the Company's most significant second lien exposure is to HELOCs originated and serviced by Countrywide.

The performance of the Company's HELOC and CES exposures deteriorated beginning in 2007 and transactions, particularly those originated in the period from 2005 through 2007, continue to perform below the Company's original underwriting expectations.

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The following table shows the Company's key assumptions used in its calculation of estimated expected losses for these types of policies as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009:

Key Assumptions in Base Case Expected Loss Estimates
Second Lien RMBS(1)

HELOC Key Variables	March 31, 2010	December 31, 2009

Plateau conditional default rate ("CDR")	11.5 - 38.0%	10.7 - 40.0%
Final CDR trended down to	0.5 - 3.2%	0.5 - 3.2%
Expected Period until Final CDR(1)	21 months	21 months
Initial conditional prepayment rate ("CPR")	0.4 - 13.4%	1.9 - 14.9%
Final CPR	10%	10%
Loss Severity	95%	95%
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$849 million	$828 million
Initial Draw Rate	0.2 - 4.8%	0.1 - 2.0%

CES Key Variables	March 31, 2010	December 31, 2009

Plateau CDR	21.5 - 44.2%	21.5 - 44.2%
Final CDR Rate trended down to	2.9 - 8.1%	3.3 - 8.1%
Expected Period until Final CDR achieved	21 months	21 months
Initial CPR	0.8 - 3.6%	0.8 - 3.6%
Final CPR	10%	10%
Loss Severity	95%	95%
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$137 million	$77 million

(1): Represents assumptions for most heavily weighted scenario.

The primary driver of the adverse development related to the HELOC and CES sector is significantly higher total pool delinquencies than had been experienced historically. In order to project future defaults in each pool, a CDR is applied each reporting period to various delinquency categories to calculate the projected losses to the pool. First, current representative liquidation rates (the percent of loans in a given delinquency status that are assumed to ultimately default) are used to estimate losses in the first five months from loans that are currently delinquent and then the CDR of the fifth month is held constant for a period of time. Taken together, the first five months of losses plus the period of time for which the CDR is held constant represent the stress period. Once the stress period has elapsed, the CDR is assumed to gradually trend down to its final CDR over twelve months. In the base case as of March 31, 2010, the total time between the current period's CDR and the long-term assumed CDR used to project losses was nine months. At the end of this period, the long-term steady CDRs modeled were between 0.5% and 3.2% for HELOC transactions and between 2.9% and 8.1% for CES transactions. The Company continued to assume an extended stress period based on transaction performance and the continued weakened overall economic environment.

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The assumption for the CPR, which represents voluntary prepayments, follows a similar pattern to that of the CDR. The current CPR is assumed to continue for the stress period before gradually increasing to the final CPR, which is assumed to be 10% for both HELOC and CES transactions. This level is much higher than current rates but lower than the historical average, which reflects the Company's continued uncertainty about performance of the borrowers in these transactions. For HELOC transactions, the draw rate is assumed to decline from the current level to the final draw rate over a period of three months. The final draw rates were assumed to be between 0.1% and 2.4%.

Performance of the collateral underlying certain securitizations has substantially differed from the Company's original expectations. Employing several loan file diligence firms and law firms as well as internal resources, as of March 31, 2010 the Company had performed a detailed review of approximately 23,000 files, representing nearly $1.8 billion in outstanding par of defaulted second lien loans underlying insured transactions, and identified a material number of defaulted loans that breach representations and warranties regarding the characteristics of the loans such as misrepresentation of income or occupation, undisclosed debt and the loan not underwritten in compliance with guidelines. The Company continues to review new files as new loans default and as new loan files are made available to it. Following negotiation with the sellers and originators of the breaching loans, as of March 31, 2010 the Company had reached agreement to have $175 million of the second lien loans repurchased. The Company has included in its net expected loss estimates for second liens as of March 31, 2010 an estimated benefit from repurchases of $986.0 million. The amount the Company ultimately recovers related to contractual representations and warranties is uncertain and subject to a number of factors including the counterparty's ability to pay, the number and amount of loans determined to have breached representations and warranties and, potentially, negotiated settlements or litigation. As such, the Company's estimate of recoveries is uncertain and actual amounts realized may differ significantly from these estimates. In arriving at the expected recovery from breaches of representations and warranties the Company considered: the credit worthiness of the provider of representations and warranties, the number of breaches found on defaulted loans, the success rate resolving these breaches with the provider of the representations and warranties and the potential amount of time until the recovery is realized. This calculation involved a variety of scenarios which ranged from the Company recovering substantially all of the losses it incurred due to violations of representations and warranties to the Company realizing very limited recoveries. These scenarios were probability weighted in order to determine the recovery incorporated into the Company's reserve estimate. This approach was used for both loans that had already defaulted and those assumed to default in the future. Recoveries were limited to amounts paid or expected to be paid out by the Company.

The ultimate performance of the Company's HELOC and CES transactions will depend on many factors, such as the level and timing of loan defaults, interest proceeds generated by the securitized loans, prepayment speeds and changes in home prices, as well as the levels of credit support built into each transaction. The ability and willingness of providers of representations and warranties to repurchase ineligible loans from the transactions will also have a material effect on the Company's ultimate loss on these transactions. Finally, other factors also may have a material impact upon the ultimate performance of each transaction, including the ability of the seller and servicer to fulfill all of their contractual obligations including any obligation to fund future draws on lines of credit. The variables affecting transaction performance are interrelated, difficult to predict and subject to

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considerable volatility. If actual results differ materially from any of the Company's assumptions, the losses incurred could be materially different from the estimate. The Company continues to update its evaluation of these exposures as new information becomes available.

The Company modeled and probability weighted three possible time periods over which an elevated CDR may potentially occur, one of which assumed a three month shorter period of elevated CDR and another of which assumed a three month longer period of elevated CDR than the most heavily weighted scenario described in the table above. Given that draw rates (the amount of new advances provided on existing HELOCs expressed as a percent of current outstanding advances) have been reduced to levels below the historical average and that loss severities in these products have been higher than anticipated at inception, the Company believes that the level of the elevated CDR and the length of time it will persist is the primary driver behind the likely amount of losses the collateral will suffer (before considering the effects of repurchases of ineligible loans). The Company continues to evaluate all of the assumptions affecting its modeling results.

The primary drivers of the Company's approach to modeling potential loss outcomes for transactions backed by second lien collateral are to assume a stressed CDR for a selected period of time and a constant 95% severity rate for the duration of the transaction. Sensitivities around the results of these transactions were modeled by varying the length of the stressed CDR, which corresponds to how long the Company assumes the second lien sector remains stressed before a recovery begins and it returns to the long term equilibrium that was modeled when the deal was underwritten. For HELOC and CES, extending the expected period until the CDR begins returning to its long term equilibrium by three months would result in an increase to expected loss of approximately $144 million for HELOC transactions and $18.2 million for CES transactions. Conversely, shortening the time until the CDR begins to return to its long term equilibrium by three months decreases expected loss by approximately $151.1 million for HELOC transactions and $27.2 million for CES transactions.

U.S. First Lien RMBS: Alt-A, Option ARM, Subprime and Prime

First lien RMBS are generally categorized in accordance with the characteristics of the first lien mortgage loans on one to four family homes supporting the transactions. The collateral supporting "Subprime RMBS" transactions is comprised of first-lien residential mortgage loans made to subprime borrowers. A "subprime borrower" is one considered to be a higher risk credit based on credit scores or other risk characteristics. Another type of RMBS transaction is generally referred to as "Alt-A RMBS." The collateral supporting such transactions is comprised of first-lien residential mortgage loans made to "prime" quality borrowers that lack certain ancillary characteristics that would make them prime. When more than 66% of the loans originally included in the pool are mortgage loans with an option to make a minimum payment that has the potential to negatively amortize the loan (i.e., increase the amount of principal owed), the transaction is referred to as an "Option ARMs." Finally, transactions may include loans made to prime borrowers.

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The performance of the Company's first lien RMBS exposures deteriorated during 2007 through First Quarter 2010 and transactions, particularly those originated in the period from 2005 through 2007, continue to perform below the Company's original underwriting expectations. The majority of the projected losses in the First Lien RMBS transactions are expected to come from mortgage loans that are currently delinquent, therefore an increase in delinquent loans beyond those expected last quarter is one of the primary drivers of loss development in this portfolio. Similar to many market participants, the Company applies a liquidation rate assumption to loans in various delinquency categories to determine what proportion of loans in those categories will eventually default.

The problems affecting the subprime mortgage market have been widely reported, with rising delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures negatively impacting the performance of Subprime RMBS transactions. Those concerns relate primarily to Subprime RMBS issued in the period from 2005 through 2007. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had insured $4.8 billion in net par of Subprime RMBS transactions, of which $4.7 billion was in the financial guaranty direct segment. These transactions benefit from various structural protections, including credit enhancement that in the direct portfolio for the vintages 2005 through 2008 currently averages approximately 31.2% of the remaining insured balance.

The factors affecting the subprime mortgage market are now affecting Alt-A RMBS transactions, with rising delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures negatively impacting their performance. Those concerns relate primarily to Alt-A RMBS issued in the period from 2005 through 2007. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had insured $2.4 billion in net par of Alt-A RMBS transactions, almost all of which was in the financial guaranty direct segment. These transactions benefit from various structural protections, including credit enhancement that in the direct portfolio for the vintages 2005 through 2007 currently averages approximately 5.5% of the remaining insured balance.

As has been reported, the problems affecting the subprime mortgage market are affecting Option ARM RMBS transactions, with rising delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures negatively impacting their performance. Those concerns relate primarily to Option ARM RMBS issued in the period from 2005 through 2007. These transactions benefit from various structural protections, including credit enhancement that in the direct portfolio for the vintages 2005 through 2007 currently averages approximately 7.2% of the remaining insured balance.

The Company also insures one direct prime RMBS transaction rated BIG with a net outstanding par at March 31, 2010 of $49.4 million, which it models as an Alt-A transaction and on which it had gross expected loss, prior to reinsurance or netting of unearned premium, of $0.4 million, and net reserves of $0.3 million. Finally, the Company insures NIM securities with a net par outstanding as of March 31, 2010 of $99.9 million. While these securities are backed by First Lien RMBS, the Company no longer expects to receive any cash flow on the underlying First Lien RMBS and has, therefore, fully reserved for these transactions, with the exception of expected payments of $92.1 million from third parties to cover principal and interest on the NIMs.

The following table shows the Company's liquidation assumptions for various delinquency categories as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009. The liquidation rate is a standard industry

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measure that is used to estimate the number of loans in a given aging category that will default within a specified time period. The Company projects these liquidations over two years.



30 - 59 Days Delinquent
	Alt-A First lien	50	%	50	%
	Alt-A Option ARM	50		50
	Subprime	45		45
60 - 89 Days Delinquent
	Alt-A First lien	65		65
	Alt-A Option ARM	65		65
	Subprime	65		65
90—Bankruptcy
	Alt-A First lien	75		75
	Alt-A Option ARM	75		75
	Subprime	70		70
Foreclosure
	Alt-A First lien	85		85
	Alt-A Option ARM	85		85
	Subprime	85		85
Real Estate Owned
	Alt-A First lien	100		100
	Alt-A Option ARM	100		100
	Subprime	100		100

First Lien U.S. RMBS
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans

	As of March 31, 2010		As of December 31, 2009

	(in millions)
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$	311.7	$	268.0

Another important driver of loss projections in this area is loss severities, which is the amount of loss the transaction incurs on a loan after the application of net proceeds from the disposal of the underlying property. Loss severities experienced in first lien transactions have reached historical highs, and the Company has been revising its assumptions to match experience. The Company is assuming that loss severities begin returning to more normal levels beginning in March 2011, reducing over two or four years to either 40% or 20 points (e.g. from 60% to 40%) below their initial levels, depending on the scenario.

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The Company increased its initial loss severity assumption this quarter for subprime transactions based on actual loss severity experience in transactions it insures. The following table shows the Company's initial loss severity assumptions as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009:



Alt-A First lien	60	%	60	%
Alt-A Option ARM	60	%	60	%
Subprime	75	%	70	%

The primary driver of the adverse development related to first lien exposure, as was the case with the Company's second lien transactions, is the result of the continued increase in delinquent mortgages. The Company predicts losses and delinquent loans using liquidation rates, while losses from current loans are determined by applying a CDR trend. For delinquent loans, a liquidation rate is applied to loans in various stages of delinquency to determine the portion of loans in each delinquency category that will eventually default. Then, for each transaction, management calculates the constant CDR that, over the next 24 months, would be sufficient to produce the amount of losses that were calculated to emerge from the various delinquency categories. That CDR plateau is extended another three months, for a total of 27 months, in some scenarios. Each transaction's CDR is calculated to improve over 12 months to an intermediate CDR based upon its CDR plateau, then trail off to its final CDR. The intermediate CDRs modeled were between 0.4% and 6.0% for Alt-A first lien transactions, between 2.6% to 4.8% for Option ARM transactions and between 1.4% and 5.3% for Subprime transactions. The defaults resulting from the CDR after the 24 month period represent the defaults that can be attributed to borrowers that are currently performing.

The assumption for the CPR follows a similar pattern to that of the CDR. The current level of voluntary prepayments is assumed to continue for the stress period before gradually increasing over 12 months to the final CPR, which is assumed to be either 10% or 15% depending on the scenario run. In the first quarter of 2010, the Company modeled and probability weighted four different scenarios with differing CDR curve shapes, loss severity development assumptions and voluntary prepayment assumptions.

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these estimates. In arriving at the expected recovery from breaches of representations and warranties the Company considered the credit worthiness of the provider of representations and warranties, the number of breaches found on defaulted loans, the success rate resolving these breaches with the provider of the representations and warranty and the potential amount of time until the recovery is realized. This calculation involved a variety of scenarios which ranged from the Company recovering substantially all of the losses it incurred due to violations of representations and warranties to the Company realizing very limited recoveries. These scenarios were probability weighted in order to determine the recovery incorporated into the Company's reserve estimate. This approach was used for both loans that had already defaulted and those assumed to default in the future. In all cases recoveries were limited to amounts paid or expected to be paid out by the Company.

The ultimate performance of the Company's First Lien RMBS transactions remains highly uncertain and may be subject to considerable volatility due to the influence of many factors, including the level and timing of loan defaults, changes in housing prices and other variables. The Company will continue to monitor the performance of its RMBS exposures and will adjust the risk ratings of those transactions based on actual performance and management's estimates of future performance.

The Company modeled sensitivities for first lien transactions by varying its assumptions of how fast an economic recovery was expected to occur. The primary variables that were varied when modeling sensitivities were the amount of time until the CDR returned to its modeled equilibrium, which was defined as 5% of the current CDR, and how quickly the stressed loss severity returned to its long term equilibrium, which was approximately a 20 point reduction in the current severity rate. In a stressed economic environment assuming a slow recovery rate in the performance of the CDR, whereby the CDR rate steps down in five increments over 11.3 years, and a five year period before severity rates return to their normalized rate, the reserves increase by $31.1 million for Alt-A transactions, $126.9 million for Option ARM transactions and $76.6 million for subprime transactions. Conversely, assuming a faster recovery in the performance of the CDR, where the CDR rate steps down in two increments over 8.1 years, and a three year period before severity rates return to their normalized rate, the reserves decrease by approximately $31.9 million for Alt-A transactions, $121.9 million for Option ARM transactions and $39.9 million for subprime transactions.

"XXX" Life Insurance Transactions

The Company has insured $2.1 billion of net par in "XXX" life insurance reserve securitization transactions based on discrete blocks of individual life insurance business. In these transactions the monies raised by the sale of the bonds insured by the Company are used to capitalize a special purpose vehicle that provides reinsurance to a life insurer or reinsurer. The monies are invested at inception in accounts managed by third-party investment managers. In order for the Company to incur an ultimate net loss on these transactions, adverse experience on the underlying block of life insurance policies and/or credit losses in the investment portfolio would need to exceed the level of credit enhancement built into the transaction structures.

The Company's $2.1billion in net par of XXX Life Insurance transactions includes $1.8 billion in the financial guaranty direct segment. Of the total, $882.5 million was rated BIG by the Company as of March 31, 2010, and corresponded to two transactions. These two XXX transactions had material amounts of their assets invested in US RMBS transactions.

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7. Financial Guaranty Contracts Accounted for as Insurance Contracts (Continued)

Based on its analysis of the information currently available, including estimates of future investment performance provided by the current investment manager, projected credit impairments on the invested assets and performance of the blocks of life insurance business at March 31, 2010, the Company's gross expected loss, prior to reinsurance or netting of unearned premium, for its two BIG XXX insurance transactions was $56.2 million and its net reserve was $45.5 million.

On December 19, 2008, the Company sued J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. ("JPMIM"), the investment manager in one of the transactions, which relates to Orkney Re II p.l.c. ("Orkney Re II") in New York Supreme Court ("Court") alleging that JPMIM engaged in breaches of fiduciary duty, gross negligence and breaches of contract based upon its handling of the investments of Orkney Re II. On January 28, 2010 the Court ruled against the Company on a motion to dismiss filed by JPMIM. The Company has filed an appeal.

Public Finance Transactions

Public finance net par outstanding represents 74% of total net par outstanding. Within the public finance category, $3.6 billion was rated BIG with the largest BIG exposure described below. The Company has exposure to a public finance transaction for sewer service in Jefferson County, Alabama. The Company's total exposure to this transaction is approximately $583 million of net par, of which $231 million is in the financial guaranty direct segment. The Company has made debt service payments during the year and expects to make additional payments in the near term. The Company is continuing its risk remediation efforts for this exposure.

Other Sectors and Transactions

The Company continues to closely monitor other sectors and individual transactions it feels warrant the additional attention, including, as of March 31, 2010, its commercial mortgage exposure of $936.2 million of net par, of which $257.8 million was in the financial guaranty direct segment, its trust preferred securities ("TruPS") collateralized debt obligations ("CDOs") exposure of $1.1 billion, most of which was in the financial guaranty direct segment, its student loan exposure of $3.7 billion net par, of which $1.3 billion was in the direct segment, and its U.S. health care exposure of $22.4 billion of net par, of which $20.6 billion was in the financial guaranty direct segment.

8. Credit Derivatives

Certain financial guaranty contracts written in credit derivative form, principally in the form of insured CDS contracts, have been deemed to meet the definition of a derivative under GAAP, which requires that an entity recognize all derivatives as either assets or liabilities in the consolidated balance sheet and measure those instruments at fair value. GAAP requires companies to recognize freestanding or embedded derivatives relating to beneficial interests in securitized financial instruments.

In general, the Company structures credit derivative transactions such that the circumstances giving rise to the Company's obligation to make loss payments is similar to that for financial guaranty contracts written in insurance form and only occurs as losses are realized on the underlying reference obligation. Nonetheless, credit derivative transactions are governed by International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") documentation and operate differently from financial guaranty

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contracts written in insurance form. For example, the Company's control rights with respect to a reference obligation under a credit derivative may be more limited than when the Company issues a financial guaranty contract written in insurance form. In addition, while the Company's exposure under credit derivatives, like the Company's exposure under financial guaranty contracts written in insurance form, has been generally for as long as the reference obligation remains outstanding, unlike financial guaranty contracts, a credit derivative may be terminated for a breach of the ISDA documentation or other specific events. If events of default or termination events specified in the credit derivative documentation were to occur, the non-defaulting or the non-affected party, which may be either the Company or the counterparty, depending upon the circumstances, may decide to terminate a credit derivative prior to maturity. The Company may be required to make a termination payment to its swap counterparty upon such termination.

Some of the Company's CDS have rating triggers that allow certain CDS counterparties to terminate in the case of downgrades. If certain of its credit derivative contracts were terminated the Company could be required to make a termination payment as determined under the relevant documentation, although under certain documents, the Company may have the right to cure the termination event by posting collateral, assigning its rights and obligations in respect of the transactions to a third party or seeking a third party guaranty of the obligations of the Company. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, if AGC's ratings were downgraded to levels between BBB or Baa2 and BB+ or Ba1, certain CDS counterparties could terminate certain CDS contracts covering approximately $6.0 billion par insured. As of the date of this filing, none of AG Re, AGRO or AGM has material CDS exposure subject to termination based on its rating. The Company does not believe that it can accurately estimate the termination payments it could be required to make if, as a result of any such downgrade, a CDS counterparty terminated its CDS contracts with the Company. These payments could have a material adverse effect on the Company's liquidity and financial condition.

Under a limited number of other CDS contracts, the Company may be required to post eligible securities as collateral—generally cash or U.S. government or agency securities. For certain of such contracts, this requirement is based on a mark-to-market valuation, as determined under the relevant documentation, in excess of contractual thresholds that decline or are eliminated if the Company's ratings decline. Under other contracts, the Company has negotiated caps such that the posting requirement cannot exceed a certain amount. As of March 31, 2010, without giving effect to thresholds that apply under current ratings, the amount of par that is subject to collateral posting is approximately $19.6 billion. Counterparties have agreed that for approximately $18.2 billion of that $19.6 billion, the maximum amount that the Company could be required to post at current ratings is $435 million; if AGC were downgraded to A- by S&P or A3 by Moody's, that maximum amount would be $485 million. As of March 31, 2010, the Company had posted approximately $649.3 million of collateral in respect of approximately $19.5 billion of par insured. The Company may be required to post additional collateral from time to time, depending on its ratings and on the market values of the transactions subject to the collateral posting.

Realized gains and other settlements on credit derivatives include credit derivative premiums received and receivable for credit protection the Company has sold under its insured CDS contracts, premiums paid and payable for credit protection the Company has purchased as well as any contractual claim losses paid and payable and received and receivable related to insured credit events under these

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contracts, ceding commissions (expense) income and realized gains or losses related to their early termination.

The following table disaggregates realized gains and other settlements on credit derivatives into its component parts for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009:

Realized Gains and Other Settlements on Credit Derivatives

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
Net credit derivative premiums received and receivable		$	53,693		$	29,515
Ceding commissions (paid and payable) received and receivable, net			1,005			122

	Realized gains on credit derivatives		54,698			29,637
Net credit derivative losses (paid and payable) recovered and recoverable			(27,995	)		(9,058	)

	Total realized gains and other settlements on credit derivatives	$	26,703		$	20,579

Net unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives represent the adjustments for changes in fair value that are recorded in each reporting period. Changes in unrealized gains and losses on credit derivatives are reflected in the consolidated statements of operations in "net unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives." Cumulative unrealized losses, determined on a contract by contract basis, are reflected as either net assets or net liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheets. Unrealized gains and losses resulting from changes in the fair value of credit derivatives occur primarily because of changes in interest rates, credit spreads, and credit ratings of the referenced entities, claim payments, and the issuing company's own credit rating, credit spreads and other market factors. Except for estimated credit impairments, the unrealized gains and losses on credit derivatives will reduce to zero as the exposure approaches its maturity date.

The Company determines the fair value of its credit derivative contracts primarily through modeling that uses various inputs to derive an estimate of the value of the Company's contracts in principal markets. See Note 9. Inputs include expected contractual life and credit spreads, based on observable market indices and on recent pricing for similar contracts. Credit spreads capture the impact of recovery rates and performance of underlying assets, among other factors, on these contracts. The Company's pricing model takes into account not only how credit spreads on risks that it assumes affect pricing, but also how the Company's own credit spread affects the pricing of its deals. If credit spreads of the underlying obligations change, the fair value of the related credit derivative changes. Market liquidity could also impact valuations of the underlying obligations.

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The impact of changes in credit spreads will vary based upon the volume, tenor, interest rates, and other market conditions at the time these fair values are determined. In addition, since each transaction has unique collateral and structure terms, the underlying change in fair value of each transaction may vary considerably. The fair value of credit derivative contracts also reflects the change in the Company's own credit cost based on the price to purchase credit protection on AGC and AGM. As of March 31, 2010 the net credit liability included a reduction in the liability of $4.0 billion representing the Company's credit value adjustment. The Company determines its own credit risk based on quoted CDS prices traded on the Company at each balance sheet date. Historically, the price of CDS traded on AGC and AGM moves directionally the same as general market spreads, however in the first quarter of 2010, AGC's CDS widened while the general market tightened. Generally, a widening of the CDS prices traded on AGC and AGM has an effect of offsetting unrealized losses that result from widening general market credit spreads, while a narrowing of the CDS prices traded on AGC and AGM has an effect of offsetting unrealized gains that result from narrowing general market credit spreads. An overall narrowing of spreads generally results in an unrealized gain on credit derivatives for the Company and an overall widening of spreads generally results in an unrealized loss for the Company.

Effect of Company's Credit Spread on Credit Derivatives Fair Value

		As of March 31, 2010			As of December 31, 2009

		(dollars in millions)
Quoted price of CDS contract (in basis points):
	AGC		734			634
	AGM		468			541
Fair value of CDS contracts:
	Before considering implication of the Company's credit spreads	$	(5,253.5	)	$	(5,830.8	)
	After considering implication of the Company's credit spreads	$	(1,284.9	)	$	(1,542.1	)

As of March 31, 2010, AGC's and AGM's credit spreads remained relatively wide compared to pre-2007 levels, as did general market spreads. The $5.3 billion liability in First Quarter 2010, which represents the fair value of CDS contracts before considering the implications of AGC's and AGM's credit spreads, is a direct result of continued wide credit spreads in the fixed income security markets, and ratings downgrades. The asset classes that remain most affected, are recent vintages of Subprime RMBS and Alt-A deals, as well as trust-preferred securities. When looking at the First Quarter 2010 compared to the First Quarter 2009, there was tightening of general market spreads as well as a run-off in net par outstanding, resulting in a gain of approximately $577.3 million before taking into account AGC or AGM's credit spreads.

During First Quarter 2009, the Company incurred net pre-tax unrealized gains on credit derivative contracts of $27.0 million. Of this amount, $2,291.5 million was due to the widening of AGC's own credit spread from 1,775 basis points at December 31, 2008 to 3,847 basis points at March 31, 2009. Management believes that the widening of AGC's credit spread is due to the correlation between AGC's risk profile and that experienced currently by the broader financial markets and increased demand for credit protection against AGC as the result of its direct segment financial guarantee

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volume as well as the overall lack of liquidity in the CDS market. Offsetting the gain attributable to the significant increase in AGC's credit spread were declines in fixed income security market prices primarily attributable to widening spreads in certain markets as a result of the continued deterioration in credit markets and some credit rating downgrades, rather than from delinquencies or defaults on securities guaranteed by the Company. The higher credit spreads in the fixed income security market are due to the recent lack of liquidity in the high yield CDO and collateralized loan obligation ("CLO") markets as well as continuing market concerns over the most recent vintages of subprime RMBS and commercial mortgage backed securities.

The tables below show net par outstanding and change in unrealized gain (losses) of credit derivatives. The estimated remaining weighted average life of credit derivatives was 5.7 years at March 31, 2010 and 6.0 years at December 31, 2009.

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Net Par Outstanding on Credit Derivatives

			As of March 31, 2010									As of December 31, 2009

Asset Type			Original Subordination(1)			Current Subordination(1)			Net Par Outstanding		Weighted Average Credit Rating(2)	Original Subordination(1)			Current Subordination(1)			Net Par Outstanding		Weighted Average Credit Rating(2)
			(dollars in millions)
Financial Guaranty Direct:
	Pooled corporate obligations:
		CLOs/CBOs		31.5	%		28.3	%	$	48,392	AAA		31.1	%		27.4	%	$	49,447	AAA
		Synthetic investment grade pooled corporate		19.2			17.8			14,380	AAA		19.2			17.7			14,652	AAA
		Synthetic high yield pooled corporate		37.2			32.1			10,236	AAA		36.7			34.4			11,040	AAA
		TruPS		46.2			34.1			5,920	BB+		46.6			37.3			6,041	BBB-
		Market value CDOs of corporate obligations		31.0			36.9			5,535	AAA		32.1			36.9			5,401	AAA

	Total pooled corporate obligations			31.1			27.9			84,463	AAA		30.9			27.9			86,581	AAA
	U.S. RMBS:
		Alt-A Option ARMs and Alt-A First Lien		20.3			21.0			5,505	B+		20.3			22.0			5,662	BB
		Subprime First lien (including NIMs)		27.5			57.6			4,859	A+		27.6			52.4			4,970	A+
		Prime first lien		10.9			10.5			541	B		10.9			11.1			560	BB
		CES and HELOCs		—			19.1			97	B		—			19.2			111	B

	Total U.S. RMBS			22.9			36.3			11,002	BBB-		22.9			34.6			11,303	BBB
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities			28.6			31.2			7,118	AAA		28.5			30.9			7,191	AAA
	Other			—			—			14,744	AA-		—			—			15,700	AA-

Total Financial Guaranty Direct										117,327	AA+								120,775	AA+
Financial Guaranty Reinsurance										1,654	AA-								1,642	AA-

Total									$	118,981	AA+							$	122,417	AA+

(1): Represents the sum of subordinate tranches and over-collateralization and does not include any benefit from excess interest collections that may be used to absorb losses.
(2): Based on the Company's internal rating, which is on a ratings scale similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies.

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Change in Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Credit Derivatives

			Three Months Ended March 31,

Asset Type			2010			2009
			(in millions)
Financial Guaranty Direct:
	Pooled corporate obligations:
		CLOs/CBOs	$	1.5		$	(77.4	)
		Synthetic investment grade pooled corporate		(7.6	)		1.6
		Synthetic high yield pooled corporate		20.4			—
		TruPS		29.7			75.3
		Market value CDOs of corporate obligations		0.4			(7.0	)
		Commercial Real Estate		—			(2.2	)
		CDO of CDOs (corporate)		—			(0.8	)

	Total pooled corporate obligations			44.4			(10.5	)
	U.S. RMBS:
		Alt-A Option ARMs and Alt-A First Lien		150.9			(44.1	)
		Subprime First lien (Including NIMs)		0.6			3.0
		Prime first lien		14.2			(49.0	)
		CES and HELOCs		8.4			—

	Total U.S. RMBS			174.1			(90.1	)
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities			9.5			(31.2	)
	Other			24.2			142.6

Total Financial Guaranty Direct				252.2			10.8
Financial Guaranty Reinsurance				(0.1	)		16.2

Total			$	252.1		$	27.0

Corporate CLOs, synthetic pooled corporate obligations, market value CDOs, and TruPS, which comprise the Company's pooled corporate exposures, include all U.S. structured finance pooled corporate obligations and international pooled corporate obligations. U.S. RMBS are comprised of prime and subprime U.S. mortgage-backed and home equity securities. CMBS are comprised of commercial U.S. structured finance and commercial international mortgage backed securities. "Other" includes all other U.S. and international asset classes, such as commercial receivables, international infrastructure, international RMBS and home equity securities, and pooled infrastructure securities.

The Company's exposure to pooled corporate obligations is highly diversified in terms of obligors, except in the case of TruPS, industries. Most pooled corporate transactions are structured to limit exposure to any given obligor and industry. The majority of the Company's pooled corporate exposure in the financial guaranty direct segment consists of CLOs or synthetic pooled corporate obligations. Most of these direct CLOs have an average obligor size of less than 1% and typically restrict the maximum exposure to any one industry to approximately 10%. The Company's exposure also benefits from embedded credit enhancement in the transactions which allows a transaction to sustain a certain

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level of losses in the underlying collateral, further insulating the Company from industry specific concentrations of credit risk on these deals.

The Company's TruPS CDO asset pools are generally less diversified by obligors and industries than the typical CLO asset pool. Also, the underlying collateral in TruPS CDOs consists primarily of subordinated debt instruments such as TruPS issued by banks, real estate investment trusts ("REITs") and insurance companies, while CLOs typically contain primarily senior secured obligations. Finally, TruPS CDOs typically contain interest rate hedges that may complicate the cash flows. However, to mitigate these risks TruPS CDOs were typically structured with higher levels of embedded credit enhancement than typical CLOs.

The Company's exposure to "Other" CDS contracts is also highly diversified. It includes $4.0 billion of exposure to four pooled infrastructure transactions comprised of diversified pools of international infrastructure project transactions and loans to regulated utilities. These pools were all structured with underlying credit enhancement sufficient for the Company to attach at super senior AAA levels. The remaining $10.7 billion of exposure in "Other" CDS contracts is comprised of numerous deals typically structured with significant underlying credit enhancement and spread across various asset classes, such as commercial receivables, international RMBS and home equity securities, infrastructure, regulated utilities and consumer receivables. Substantially all of this of exposure is rated IG and the weighted average credit rating is AA-.

The unrealized gain for the three months ended March 31, 2010 on "Other" CDS contracts is primarily attributable to implied spreads narrowing on a film securitization transaction.

With considerable volatility continuing in the market, unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives may fluctuate significantly in future periods.

The following tables present additional details about the Company's unrealized gain or loss on credit derivatives associated with U.S. RMBS by vintage as of March 31, 2010:

U. S. Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities

Vintage						Net Par Outstanding (in millions)		Weighted Average Credit Rating(2)	Three Months Ended March 31, 2010 Unrealized Gain (Loss) (in millions)

2004 and Prior		6.1	%	20.3	%	$	184	A	$	0.4
2005		26.8		58.9			3,401	AA-		1.8
2006		28.5		50.6			1,738	BBB		5.4
2007		19.2		18.2			5,679	B+		166.5
2008		—		—			—	—		—
2009		—		—			—	—		—
2010		—		—			—	—		—

	Total	22.9	%	36.3	%	$	11,002	BBB-	$	174.1

(1): Represents the sum of subordinate tranches and over-collateralization and does not include any benefit from excess interest collections that may be used to absorb losses.

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(2): Based on the Company's internal rating, which is on a ratings scale similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies.

The following table presents additional details about the Company's unrealized gain or loss on credit derivatives associated with CMBS transactions by vintage as of March 31, 2010:

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

Vintage						Net Par Outstanding (in millions)		Weighted Average Credit Rating(2)	Three Months Ended March 31, 2010 Unrealized Gain (Loss) (in millions)

2004 and Prior		28.2	%	43.0	%	$	614	AAA	$	0.3
2005		17.6		24.9			685	AAA		0.4
2006		26.4		27.2			4,404	AAA		4.5
2007		41.1		41.4			1,415	AAA		4.3
2008		—		—			—	—		—
2009		—		—			—	—		—
2010		—		—			—	—		—

	Total	28.6	%	31.2	%	$	7,118	AAA	$	9.5

(1): Represents the sum of subordinate tranches and over-collateralization and does not include any benefit from excess interest collections that may be used to absorb losses.
(2): Based on the Company's internal rating, which is on a ratings scale similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies.

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The following table summarizes the estimated change in fair values on the net balance of the Company's credit derivative positions assuming immediate parallel shifts in credit spreads on AGC and AGM and on the risks that they both assume:

	As of March 31, 2010

Credit Spreads(1)	Estimated Net Fair Value (Pre-Tax)			Estimated Pre-Tax Change in Gain/(Loss)
	(in millions)
100% widening in spreads	$	(3,128.1	)	$	(1,843.2	)
50% widening in spreads		(2,208.7	)		(923.8	)
25% widening in spreads		(1,748.9	)		(464.0	)
10% widening in spreads		(1,473.0	)		(188.1	)
Base Scenario		(1,284.9	)		—
10% narrowing in spreads		(1,162.9	)		122.0
25% narrowing in spreads		(976.9	)		308.0
50% narrowing in spreads		(667.3	)		617.6

(1): Includes the effects of spreads on both the underlying asset classes and the Company's own credit spread.

During First Quarter 2010 due to technical factors such as mismatched supply and demand for buyers and sellers of protection on AGC's credit spread, AGC's credit spread did not move in correlation with asset price changes experienced in the broader market. However, based upon historical data, and price shifts experienced as of the date of this filing, the Company believes that AGC's and AGM's credit spreads continue to remain correlated with asset price changes experienced throughout the financial markets.

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The carrying amount and estimated fair value of financial instruments are presented in the following table:

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

		As of March 31, 2010				As of December 31, 2009

		Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value		Carrying Amount		Estimated Fair Value
		(in thousands)
Assets:
	Fixed maturity securities	$	9,057,230	$	9,057,230	$	9,139,900	$	9,139,900
	Short-term investments		1,421,421		1,421,421		1,668,279		1,668,279
	Assets acquired in refinancing transactions		143,488		151,160		152,411		160,143
	Credit derivative assets		537,050		537,050		492,531		492,531
	Committed capital securities, at fair value		8,262		8,262		9,537		9,537
	Financial guaranty VIE assets		1,868,596		1,868,596		—		—
	Other assets		24,295		24,295		18,473		18,473
Liabilities:
	Financial guaranty insurance contracts(1)		5,690,195		6,981,575		5,971,803		7,020,474
	Long-term debt		919,493		981,275		917,362		927,823
	Notes payable		142,403		147,147		149,051		148,477
	Credit derivative liabilities		1,821,961		1,821,961		2,034,634		2,034,634
	Financial guaranty VIE liabilities with recourse		2,067,215		2,067,215		762,652		762,652
	Financial guaranty VIE liabilities without recourse		205,724		205,724		—		—
	Other liabilities		68		68		66		66

(1): Includes the balance sheet amounts related to financial guaranty insurance contract premiums and losses, net of reinsurance.

Background

Fair value framework defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. The price represents the price available in the principal market for the asset or liability. If there is no principal market, then the price is based on the market that maximizes the value received for an asset or minimizes the amount paid for a liability (i.e. the most advantageous market).

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A fair value hierarchy was also established based on whether the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value are observable or unobservable. Observable inputs reflect market data obtained from independent sources, while unobservable inputs reflect Company estimates of market assumptions. In accordance with GAAP, the fair value hierarchy prioritizes model inputs into three broad levels as follows:

Level 1—Quoted prices for identical instruments in active markets.

Level 2—Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and observable inputs other than quoted prices, such as interest rates or yield curves and other inputs derived from or corroborated by observable market inputs.

Level 3—Model derived valuations in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. This hierarchy requires the use of observable market data when available. Financial instruments are considered Level 3 when their values are determined using pricing models, discounted cash flow methodologies or similar techniques and at least one significant model assumption or input is unobservable. Level 3 financial instruments also include those for which the determination of fair value requires significant management judgment or estimation.

An asset or liability's categorization within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of significant input to its valuation.

Financial Instruments Carried at Fair Value

The measurement provision of the fair value framework applies to both amounts recorded in the Company's financial statements and to disclosures. Amounts recorded at fair value in the Company's financial statements are included in the tables below.

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Fair Value Hierarchy of Financial Instruments
As of March 31, 2010

						Fair Value Measurements Using

				Fair Value		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3
				(in millions)
Assets:
Investment portfolio, available-for-sale:
	Fixed maturity securities
		U.S. government and agencies		$	1,048.7	$	—	$	1,048.7	$	—
		Obligations of state and political subdivisions			4,814.2		—		4,814.2		—
		Corporate securities			642.6		—		642.6		—
		Mortgage-backed securities:
			Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,466.6		—		1,387.3		79.3
			Commercial mortgage-backed securities		247.6		—		247.6		—
		Asset-backed securities			501.9		—		279.2		222.7
		Foreign government securities			335.7		—		335.7		—

			Total fixed maturity securities		9,057.3		—		8,755.3		302.0
	Short-term investments				1,421.4		722.4		699.0		—
	Assets acquired in refinancing transactions(1)				31.9		—		21.3		10.6
	Credit derivative assets				537.1		—		—		537.1
	Committed capital securities, at fair value				8.3		—		8.3		—
	Financial guaranty VIE assets				1,868.6		—		—		1,868.6
	Other assets				24.2		19.8		—		4.4

		Total assets		$	12,948.8	$	742.2	$	9,483.9	$	2,722.7

Liabilities:
	Credit derivative liabilities			$	1,822.0	$	—	$	—	$	1,822.0
	Financial guaranty VIE liabilities with recourse				2,067.2		—		—		2,067.2
	Financial guaranty VIE liabilities without recourse				205.7		—		—		205.7
	Other liabilities				0.1		—		0.1		—

		Total liabilities		$	4,095.0	$	—	$	0.1	$	4,094.9

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Fair Value Hierarchy of Financial Instruments
As of December 31, 2009

						Fair Value Measurements Using

				Fair Value		Level 1		Level 2		Level 3
				(in millions)
Assets:
Investment portfolio, available-for-sale:
	Fixed maturity securities
		U.S. government and agencies		$	1,037.6	$	—	$	1,037.6	$	—
		Obligations of state and political subdivisions			5,039.5		—		5,039.5		—
		Corporate securities			625.5		—		625.5
		Mortgage-backed securities:									—
			Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,464.6		—		1,464.6		—
			Commercial mortgage-backed securities		227.2		—		227.2		—
		Asset-backed securities			388.9		—		185.0		203.9
		Foreign government securities			356.6		—		356.6		—

			Total fixed maturity securities		9,139.9		—		8,936.0		203.9
	Short-term investments				1,668.3		437.2		1,231.1		—
	Assets acquired in refinancing transactions(1)				32.4		—		21.3		11.1
	Credit derivative assets				492.5		—		—		492.5
	Committed capital securities, at fair value				9.5		—		9.5		—
	Other assets				18.5		18.3		—		0.2

		Total assets		$	11,361.1	$	455.5	$	10,197.9	$	707.7

Liabilities:
	Credit derivative liabilities			$	2,034.6	$	—	$	—	$	2,034.6
	Other liabilities				0.1		—		0.1		—

		Total liabilities		$	2,034.7	$	—	$	0.1	$	2,034.6

(1): Includes mortgage loans that are fair valued on a non-recurring basis. At March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, such investments were carried at their market value of $10.6 million and $11.1 million, respectively. The mortgage loans are classified as Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy as there are significant unobservable inputs used in the valuation of such loans. An indicative dealer quote is used to price the non-performing portion of these mortgage loans. The performing loans are valued using management's determination of future cash flows arising from these loans, discounted at the rate of return that would be required by a market participant. This rate of return is based on indicative dealer quotes.

Fixed Maturity Securities and Short-term Investments

The fair value of bonds in the Investment Portfolio is generally based on quoted market prices received from third party pricing services or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price

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transparency. Such quotes generally consider a variety of factors, including recent trades of the same and similar securities. If quoted market prices are not available, the valuation is based on pricing models that use dealer price quotations, price activity for traded securities with similar attributes and other relevant market factors as inputs, including security type, rating, vintage, tenor and its position in the capital structure of the issuer. The Company considers securities prices from pricing services, index providers or broker-dealers to be Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy. Prices determined based upon model processes are considered to be Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. The Company used model processes to price 21 fixed maturity securities as of March 31, 2010 and these securities were classified as Level 3.

Broker-dealer quotations obtained to price securities are generally considered to be indicative and are nonactionable (i.e. non-binding).

The Company did not make any internal adjustments to prices provided by its third party pricing service.

Committed Capital Securities

The fair value of committed capital securities ("CCS") represents the difference between the present value of remaining expected put option premium payments under the AGC's CCS (the "AGC CCS Securities") and AGM Committed Preferred Trust Securities (the "AGM CPS Securities") agreements and the value of such estimated payments based upon the quoted price for such premium payments as of the reporting dates (see Note 17). Changes in fair value of the AGM CPS and AGC CCS securities are included in the consolidated statement of operations. The significant market inputs used are observable, therefore, the Company classified this fair value measurement as Level 2.

Financial Guaranty Credit Derivatives Accounted for as Derivatives

The Company's credit derivatives consist primarily of insured CDS contracts, and also include NIM securitizations and interest rate swaps (see Note 8) most of which fall under derivative accounting guidance requiring fair value accounting through the statement of operations. The Company does not typically exit its credit derivative contracts, and there are no quoted prices for its instruments or for similar instruments. Observable inputs other than quoted market prices exist; however, these inputs reflect contracts that do not contain terms and conditions similar to the credit derivative contracts issued by the Company. Therefore, the valuation of credit derivative contracts requires the use of models that contain significant, unobservable inputs. The Company accordingly believes the credit derivative valuations are in Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy discussed above.

The fair value of the Company's credit derivative contracts represents the difference between the present value of remaining expected net premiums the Company receives for the credit protection and the estimated present value of premiums that a comparable credit-worthy financial guarantor would hypothetically charge the Company for the same protection at the balance sheet date. The fair value of the Company's credit derivatives depends on a number of factors, including notional amount of the contract, expected term, credit spreads, changes in interest rates, the credit ratings of referenced entities, the Company's own credit risk and remaining contractual cash flows.

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Market conditions at March 31, 2010 were such that market prices of the Company's CDS contracts were not generally available. Where market prices were not available, the Company used proprietary valuation models that used both unobservable and observable market data inputs such as various market indices, credit spreads, the Company's own credit spread, and estimated contractual payments to estimate the portion of the fair value of its credit derivatives. These models are primarily developed internally based on market conventions for similar transactions.

Management considers the non-standard terms of its credit derivative contracts in determining the fair value of these contracts. These terms differ from more standardized credit derivative contracts sold by companies outside the financial guaranty industry. The non-standard terms include the absence of collateral support agreements or immediate settlement provisions. In addition, the Company employs relatively high attachment points and does not exit derivatives it sells for credit protection purposes, except under specific circumstances such as novations upon exiting a line of business. Because of these terms and conditions, the fair value of the Company's credit derivatives may not reflect the same prices observed in an actively traded market of credit derivatives that do not contain terms and conditions similar to those observed in the financial guaranty market. The Company's models and the related assumptions are continuously reevaluated by management and enhanced, as appropriate, based upon improvements in modeling techniques and availability of more timely and relevant market information.

Remaining contractual cash flows are the most readily observable variables since they are based on the CDS contractual terms. These variables include i) net premiums received and receivable on written credit derivative contracts, ii) net premiums paid and payable on purchased contracts, iii) losses paid and payable to credit derivative contract counterparties and iv) losses recovered and recoverable on purchased contracts.

Valuation models include management estimates and current market information. Management is also required to make assumptions on how the fair value of credit derivative instruments is affected by current market conditions. Management considers factors such as current prices charged for similar agreements, performance of underlying assets, life of the instrument, and the nature and extent of activity in the financial guaranty credit derivative marketplace. The assumptions that management uses to determine its fair value may change in the future due to market conditions. Due to the inherent uncertainties of the assumptions used in the valuation models to determine the fair value of these credit derivative products, actual experience may differ from the estimates reflected in the Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and the differences may be material.

Assumptions and Inputs

Listed below are various inputs and assumptions that are key to the establishment of the Company's fair value for CDS contracts.

The key assumptions of the Company's internally developed model include the following:

•: Gross spread is the difference between the yield of a security paid by an issuer on an insured versus uninsured basis or, in the case of a CDS transaction, the difference between the yield and an index such as the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"). Such pricing is well established by historical financial guaranty fees relative to capital market spreads as observed

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and executed in competitive markets, including in financial guaranty reinsurance and secondary market transactions.

•

Gross spread on a financial guaranty written in CDS form is allocated among:

1.: the profit the originator, usually an investment bank, realizes for putting the deal together and funding the transaction ("bank profit");
2.: premiums paid to the Company for the Company's credit protection provided ("net spread"); and
3.: the cost of CDS protection purchased on the Company by the originator to hedge their counterparty credit risk exposure to the Company ("hedge cost").

The premium the Company receives is referred to as the "net spread." The Company's own credit risk is factored into the determination of net spread based on the impact of changes in the quoted market price for credit protection bought on the Company, as reflected by quoted market prices on CDS referencing AGC or AGM. The cost to acquire CDS protection referencing AGC or AGM affects the amount of spread on CDS deals that the Company retains and, hence, their fair value. As the cost to acquire CDS protection referencing AGC or AGM increases, the amount of premium the Company retains on a deal generally decreases. As the cost to acquire CDS protection referencing AGC or AGM decreases, the amount of premium the Company retains on a deal generally increases. In the Company's valuation model, the premium the Company captures is not permitted to go below the minimum rate that the Company would currently charge to assume similar risks. This assumption can have the effect of mitigating the amount of unrealized gains that are recognized on certain CDS contracts.

The Company determines the fair value of its CDS contracts by applying the net spread for the remaining duration of each contract to the notional value of its CDS contracts. To the extent available actual transactions executed in the accounting period are used to validate the model results and to explain the correlation between various market indices and indicative CDS market prices.

The Company's fair value model inputs are gross spread, credit spreads on risks assumed and credit spreads on the Company's name.

Gross spread is an input into the Company's fair value model that is used to ultimately determine the net spread a comparable financial guarantor would charge the Company to transfer risk at the reporting date. The Company's estimate of the fair value adjustment represents the difference between the estimated present value of premiums that a comparable financial guarantor would accept to assume the risk from the Company on the current reporting date, on terms identical to the original contracts written by the Company and at the contractual premium for each individual credit derivative contract. This is an observable input that the Company obtains for deals it has closed or bid on in the market place.

The Company obtains credit spreads on risks assumed from market data sources published by third parties (e.g. dealer spread tables for the collateral similar to assets within the Company's transactions) as well as collateral-specific spreads provided by trustees or obtained from market sources. If observable market credit spreads are not available or reliable for the underlying reference obligations,

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then market indices are used that most closely resembles the underlying reference obligations, considering asset class, credit quality rating and maturity of the underlying reference obligations. As discussed previously, these indices are adjusted to reflect the non-standard terms of the Company's CDS contracts. Market sources determine credit spreads by reviewing new issuance pricing for specific asset classes and receiving price quotes from their trading desks for the specific asset in question. Management validates these quotes by cross-referencing quotes received from one market source against quotes received from another market source to ensure reasonableness. In addition, the Company compares the relative change in price quotes received from one quarter to another, with the relative change experienced by published market indices for a specific asset class. Collateral specific spreads obtained from third-party, independent market sources are un-published spread quotes from market participants and or market traders whom are not trustees. Management obtains this information as the result of direct communication with these sources as part of the valuation process.

For credit spreads on the Company's name the Company obtains the quoted price of CDS contracts traded on AGC and AGM from market data sources published by third parties.

Example

The following is an example of how changes in gross spreads, the Company's own credit spread and the cost to buy protection on the Company affect the amount of premium the Company can demand for its credit protection. Scenario 1 represents the market conditions in effect on the transaction date and Scenario 2 represents market conditions at a subsequent reporting date.

	Scenario 1					Scenario 2

	bps		% of Total			bps		% of Total
Original gross spread/cash bond price (in bps)		185					500
Bank profit (in bps)		115		62	%		50		10	%
Hedge cost (in bps)		30		16			440		88
The Company premium received per annum (in bps)		40		22			10		2

In Scenario 1, the gross spread is 185 basis points. The bank or deal originator captures 115 basis points of the original gross spread and hedges 10% of its exposure to AGC, when the CDS spread on AGC was 300 basis points (300 basis points × 10% = 30 basis points). Under this scenario the Company received premium of 40 basis points, or 22% of the gross spread.

In Scenario 2, the gross spread is 500 basis points. The bank or deal originator captures 50 basis points of the original gross spread and hedges 25% of its exposure to AGC, when the CDS spread on AGC was 1,760 basis points (1,760 basis points × 25% = 440 basis points). Under this scenario the Company would receive premium of 10 basis points, or 2% of the gross spread.

In this example, the contractual cash flows (the Company premium received per annum above) exceed the amount a market participant would require the Company to pay in today's market to accept its obligations under the CDS contract, thus resulting in an asset. This credit derivative asset is equal to the difference in premium rate discounted at the corresponding LIBOR over the weighted average remaining life of the contract. The expected future cash flows for the Company's credit derivatives were

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discounted at rates ranging from 0.25% to 4.6% at March 31, 2010. The expected future cash flows for the Company's credit derivatives were discounted at rates ranging from 0.25% to 4.5% at December 31, 2009.

The Company corroborates the assumptions in its fair value model, including the amount of exposure to AGC and AGM hedged by its counterparties, with independent third parties each reporting period. The current level of AGC's and AGM's own credit spread has resulted in the bank or deal originator hedging a significant portion of its exposure to AGC and AGM. This reduces the amount of contractual cash flows AGC and AGM can capture for selling its protection.

The amount of premium a financial guaranty insurance market participant can demand is inversely related to the cost of credit protection on the insurance company as measured by market credit spreads. This is because the buyers of credit protection typically hedge a portion of their risk to the financial guarantor, due to the fact that contractual terms of financial guaranty insurance contracts typically do not require the posting of collateral by the guarantor. The widening of a financial guarantor's own credit spread increases the cost to buy credit protection on the guarantor, thereby reducing the amount of premium the guarantor can capture out of the gross spread on the deal. The extent of the hedge depends on the types of instruments insured and the current market conditions.

A credit derivative asset on protection sold is the result of contractual cash flows on in-force deals in excess of what a hypothetical financial guarantor could receive if it sold protection on the same risk as of the current reporting date. If the Company were able to freely exchange these contracts (i.e., assuming its contracts did not contain proscriptions on transfer and there was a viable exchange market), it would be able to realize an asset representing the difference between the higher contractual premiums to which it is entitled and the current market premiums for a similar contract.

Management does not believe there is an established market where financial guaranty insured credit derivatives are actively traded. The terms of the protection under an insured financial guaranty credit derivative do not, except for certain rare circumstances, allow the Company to exit its contracts. Management has determined that the exit market for the Company's credit derivatives is a hypothetical one based on its entry market. Management has tracked the historical pricing of the Company's deals to establish historical price points in the hypothetical market that are used in the fair value calculation.

The following spread hierarchy is utilized in determining which source of spread to use, with the rule being to use CDS spreads where available. If not available, the Company either interpolates or extrapolates CDS spreads based on similar transactions or market indices.

•: Actual collateral specific credit spreads (if up-to-date and reliable market-based spreads are available, they are used).
•: Credit spreads are interpolated based upon market indices or deals priced or closed during a specific quarter within a specific asset class and specific rating.
•: Credit spreads provided by the counterparty of the CDS.
•: Credit spreads are extrapolated based upon transactions of similar asset classes, similar ratings, and similar time to maturity.

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Over time the data inputs can change as new sources become available or existing sources are discontinued or are no longer considered to be the most appropriate. It is the Company's objective to move to higher levels on the hierarchy whenever possible, but it is sometimes necessary to move to lower priority inputs because of discontinued data sources or management's assessment that the higher priority inputs are no longer considered to be representative of market spreads for a given type of collateral. This can happen, for example, if transaction volume changes such that a previously used spread index is no longer viewed as being reflective of current market levels.

Information by Credit Spread Type



Based on actual collateral specific spreads		5	%	5	%
Based on market indices		91	%	90	%
Provided by the CDS counterparty		4	%	5	%

	Total	100	%	100	%

The Company interpolates a curve based on the historical relationship between premium the Company receives when a financial guaranty contract written in CDS form is closed to the daily closing price of the market index related to the specific asset class and rating of the deal. This curve indicates expected credit spreads at each indicative level on the related market index. For specific transactions where no price quotes are available and credit spreads need to be extrapolated, an alternative transaction for which the Company has received a spread quote from one of the first three sources within the Company's spread hierarchy is chosen. This alternative transaction will be within the same asset class, have similar underlying assets, similar credit ratings, and similar time to maturity. The Company then calculates the percentage of relative spread change quarter over quarter for the alternative transaction. This percentage change is then applied to the historical credit spread of the transaction for which no price quote was received in order to calculate the transactions current spread. Counterparties determine credit spreads by reviewing new issuance pricing for specific asset classes and receiving price quotes from their trading desks for the specific asset in question. These quotes are validated by cross-referencing quotes received from one market source with those quotes received from another market source to ensure reasonableness. In addition, management compares the relative change experienced on published market indices for a specific asset class for reasonableness and accuracy.

Strengths and Weaknesses of Model

The Company's credit derivative valuation model, like any financial model, has certain strengths and weaknesses.

The primary strengths of the Company's CDS modeling techniques are:

•: The model takes account of transaction structure and the key drivers of market value. The transaction structure includes par insured, weighted average life, level of subordination and composition of collateral.

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•: The model maximizes the use of market-driven inputs whenever they are available. The key inputs to the model are market-based spreads for the collateral, and the credit rating of referenced entities. These are viewed by the Company to be the key parameters that affect fair value of the transaction.
•: The Company is able to use actual transactions to validate its model results and to explain the correlation between various market indices and indicative CDS market prices. Management first attempts to compare modeled values to premiums on deals the Company received on new deals written within the reporting period. If no new transactions were written for a particular asset type in the period or if the number of transactions is not reflective of a representative sample, management compares modeled results to premium bids offered by the Company to provide credit protection on new transactions within the reporting period, the premium the Company has received on historical transactions to provide credit protection in net tight and wide credit environments and/or the premium on transactions closed by other financial guaranty insurance companies during the reporting period.
•: The model is a well-documented, consistent approach to valuing positions that minimizes subjectivity. The Company has developed a hierarchy for market-based spread inputs that helps mitigate the degree of subjectivity during periods of high illiquidity.

The primary weaknesses of the Company's CDS modeling techniques are:

•: There is no exit market or actual exit transactions. Therefore the Company's exit market is a hypothetical one based on the Company's entry market.
•: There is a very limited market in which to verify the fair values developed by the Company's model.
•: At March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the markets for the inputs to the model were highly illiquid, which impacts their reliability. However, the Company employs various procedures to corroborate the reasonableness of quotes received and calculated by the Company's internal valuation model, including comparing to other quotes received on similarly structured transactions, observed spreads on structured products with comparable underlying assets and, on a selective basis when possible, through second independent quotes on the same reference obligation.
•: Due to the non-standard terms under which the Company enters into derivative contracts, the fair value of its credit derivatives may not reflect the same prices observed in an actively traded market of credit derivatives that do not contain terms and conditions similar to those observed in the financial guaranty market.

Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 these contracts are classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy since there is reliance on at least one unobservable input deemed significant to the valuation model, most significantly the Company's estimate of the value of the non-standard terms and conditions of its credit derivative contracts and of the Company's current credit standing.

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Fair Value Option on Financial Guaranty VIE Assets and Liabilities

The Company elected the Fair Value Option for financial guaranty VIE assets and liabilities upon adopting the new accounting guidance on accounting for VIEs (see Note 23).

The Company's financial guaranty VIEs issued securities collateralized by HELOCs, first lien RMBS, Alt-A first and second lien RMBS, subprime automobile loans, and other loans and receivables. As the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement of these securities in its entirety was a Level 3 input, we classified all such securities as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. The securities were priced with the assistance of an independent third-party using a discounted cash flow approach and the third-party's proprietary pricing models. The models to price the VIEs liabilities used, where appropriate, inputs such as estimated prepayment speeds; losses; recoveries; market values of the assets that collateralize the securities; estimated default rates (determined on the basis of an analysis of collateral attributes, historical collateral performance, borrower profiles and other features relevant to the evaluation of collateral credit quality); discount rates implied by market prices for similar securities; house price depreciation/appreciation rates based on macroeconomic forecasts and benefit from the Company's insurance policy guaranteeing the timely payment of principal and interest for the VIE tranches insured by the Company. Those VIE liabilities insured by the Company are considered to be with recourse, since the Company guarantees the payment of principal and interest regardless of the performance of the related VIE assets. Those VIE liabilities not insured by the Company are considered to be non-recourse, since the payment of principal and interest of these liabilities is wholly dependent on the performance of the VIE assets.

The Company is not primarily liable for the debt obligations issued by the VIEs and would only be required to make payments on these debt obligations in the event that the issuer of such debt obligations defaults on any principal or interest due. The Company's creditors do not have any rights with regard to the assets of the VIEs.

The Company determined the fair value of the VIE assets to using a similar methodology as described above with the exception that there was no benefit assigned to the value of the Company's financial guarantee since the Company does not guarantee the performance of the underlying assets of the VIE.

Changes in fair value of the financial guaranty VIE assets and liabilities are included in the consolidated statement of operations. Interest income on VIE assets is recognized when received and recorded in "variable interest entities' revenues" in the consolidated statements of operations. Except for credit impairment, the unrealized fair value adjustments related to the consolidated VIEs will reverse to zero over the terms of these financial instruments.

The total unpaid principal balance for the VIE assets that were over 90 days or more past due was approximately $258.0 million. The change in the instrument-specific credit risk of the VIE assets was a loss of approximately $49.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. The difference between the aggregate unpaid principal and aggregate fair value of the VIE liabilities was approximately $750.3 million at March 31, 2010.

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Level 3 Instruments

The table below presents a rollforward of the Company's financial instruments whose fair value included significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) during the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009. There were no significant transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 financial assets during the period.

Fair Value Level 3 Rollforward

										Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

										Total Pre-tax Realized/ Unrealized Gains/ (Losses)(1) Recorded in:														Change in Unrealized Gains/ (Losses) Related to Financial Instruments Held at March 31, 2010
	Fair Value at December 31, 2009			Adoption of New Accounting Guidance			Fair Value at January 1, 2010									Purchases, Issuances, Settlements, net			Transfers in and/or out of Level 3		Fair Value at March 31, 2010
	Fair Value at December 31, 2009			Adoption of New Accounting Guidance			Fair Value at January 1, 2010			Net Income (Loss)			Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)			Purchases, Issuances, Settlements, net			Transfers in and/or out of Level 3		Fair Value at March 31, 2010
	(in thousands)
Investment portfolio	$	203,914		$	—		$	203,914		$	(160	)(2)	$	(17,615	)	$	41,952		$	73,893	$	301,984		$	(17,615	)
Assets acquired in refinancing transactions		16			—			16			—			—			—			—		16			—
Financial guaranty VIE assets		—			1,925,286			1,925,286			4,188	(3)					(60,878	)				1,868,596			63,997
Other assets		167			—			167			78	(4)		—			4,169			—		4,414			78
Credit derivative asset (liability), net(5)		(1,542,103	)		—			(1,542,103	)		278,801	(6)		—			(21,609	)		—		(1,284,911	)		257,848
Financial guaranty VIE liabilities with recourse		—			(2,110,852	)		(2,110,852	)		(9,625)	(3)		—			53,262			—		(2,067,215	)		(58,537	)
Financial guaranty VIE liabilities without recourse		—			(225,976	)		(225,976	)		(5,153)	(3)		—			25,405			—		(205,724	)		(3,379	)

				Three Months Ended March 31, 2009

				Total Pre-tax Realized/ Unrealized Gains/ (Losses)(1) Recorded in:													Change in Unrealized Gains/ (Losses) Related to Financial Instruments Held at March 31, 2009
	Fair Value at December 31, 2008								Purchases, Issuances, Settlements, net			Transfers in and/or out of Level 3		Fair Value at March 31, 2009
	Fair Value at December 31, 2008			Net Income (Loss)			Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)		Purchases, Issuances, Settlements, net			Transfers in and/or out of Level 3		Fair Value at March 31, 2009
	(in thousands)
Credit derivative asset (liability), net(5)	$	(586,807	)	$	47,561	(6)	$	—	$	(17,724	)	$	—	$	(556,970	)	$	27,182

(1): Realized and unrealized gains (losses) from changes in values of Level 3 financial instruments represent gains (losses) from changes in values of those financial instruments only for the periods in which the instruments were classified as Level 3.
(2): Included in net realized investment gains (losses).
(3): Included in financial guaranty variable interest entities revenues or expenses.
(4): Recorded in other income.
(5): Represents net position of credit derivatives. The consolidated balance sheet presents gross assets and liabilities based on net counterparty exposure.
(6): Reported in net change in fair value of credit derivatives.

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Unearned Premium Reserves

The fair value of the Company's unearned premium reserves was based on management's estimate of what a similarly rated financial guaranty insurance company would demand to acquire the Company's in-force book of financial guaranty insurance business. This amount was based on the pricing assumptions management has observed in recent portfolio transfers that have occurred in the financial guaranty market and included adjustments to the carrying value of unearned premium reserves for stressed losses and ceding commissions. The significant inputs for stressed losses and ceding commissions were not readily observable inputs. The Company accordingly classified this fair value measurement as Level 3.

Long-Term Debt and Notes Payable

The Company's long-term debt is valued by broker-dealers using third party independent pricing sources and standard market conventions. The market conventions utilize market quotations, market transactions in comparable instruments, and various relationships between instruments, such as yield to maturity.

The fair value of the notes payable was determined by calculating the present value of the expected cash flows.

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Investment Portfolio

The following tables summarize the Company's aggregate investment portfolio:

Investment Portfolio by Security Type

		As of March 31, 2010

Investments Category		Percent of Total(1)			Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses			Estimated Fair Value		AOCI on Securities with OTTI(2)		Weighted Average Credit Quality
		(dollars in thousands)
Fixed maturity securities:
U.S. government and agencies			10	%	$	1,019,411	$	30,308	$	(1,015	)	$	1,048,704	$	—		AAA
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			45			4,663,030		155,895		(4,727	)		4,814,198				AA
Corporate securities			6			628,497		15,064		(980	)		642,581		29		AA-
Mortgage-backed securities(3):
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		14			1,460,513		41,097		(35,003	)		1,466,607		8,987		AA
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		2			240,360		7,720		(480	)		247,600		297		AA+
Asset-backed securities			5			505,770		2,729		(6,661	)		501,838		—		BIG
Foreign government securities			4			348,278		4,000		(16,576	)		335,702		—		AA+

	Total fixed maturity securities		86			8,865,859		256,813		(65,442	)		9,057,230		9,313		AA
Short-term investments			14			1,422,018		—		(597	)		1,421,421		—		AAA

	Total investment portfolio		100	%	$	10,287,877	$	256,813	$	(66,039	)	$	10,478,651	$	9,313		AA

		As of December 31, 2009

Investments Category		Percent of Total(1)			Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses			Estimated Fair Value		AOCI on Securities with OTTI(2)		Weighted Average Credit Quality
		(dollars in thousands)
Fixed maturity securities:
U.S. government and agencies			9	%	$	1,014,254	$	26,048	$	(2,755	)	$	1,037,547	$	—		AAA
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			46			4,881,542		164,700		(6,772	)		5,039,470		—		AA
Corporate securities			6			617,117		12,854		(4,362	)		625,609		—		AA-
Mortgage-backed securities(3):
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		14			1,449,443		39,489		(24,328	)		1,464,604		9,804		AA+
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		2			229,841		3,431		(6,101	)		227,171		2,418		AA+
Asset-backed securities			4			395,255		1,495		(7,869	)		388,881		—		BIG
Foreign government securities			3			356,457		3,570		(3,409	)		356,618		—		AA+

	Total fixed maturity securities		84			8,943,909		251,587		(55,596	)		9,139,900		12,222		AA
Short-term investments			16			1,668,185		649		(555	)		1,668,279		—		AAA

	Total investment portfolio		100	%	$	10,612,094	$	252,236	$	(56,151	)	$	10,808,179	$	12,222		AA

(1): Based on amortized cost.

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(2): Accumulated other comprehensive income ("AOCI").
(3): As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively, approximately 76% and 80% of the Company's total mortgage backed securities were government agency obligations.

Ratings in the table above represent the lower of the Moody's and S&P classifications. The Company's portfolio is comprised primarily of high-quality, liquid instruments. The Company continues to receive sufficient information to value its investments and has not had to modify its valuation approach due to the current market conditions.

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities by contractual maturity as of March 31, 2010 are shown below. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.

Distribution of Fixed-Maturity Securities in the Investment Portfolio
by Contractual Maturity

		As of March 31, 2010

		Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value
		(in thousands)
Due within one year		$	56,372	$	57,662
Due after one year through five years			1,889,853		1,905,531
Due after five years through ten years			1,728,156		1,768,470
Due after ten years			3,490,605		3,611,360
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,460,513		1,466,607
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		240,360		247,600

Total		$	8,865,859	$	9,057,230

Proceeds from the sale of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities were $187.8 million and $274.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

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10. Investment Portfolio (Continued)

Net Investment Income

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
Income from fixed maturity securities		$	87,140		$	43,479
Income from short-term investments			(368	)		1,075

	Gross investment income		86,772			44,554
Investment expenses			(2,470	)		(953	)

	Net investment income(1)	$	84,302		$	43,601

(1): 2010 amounts include $17.6 million of amortization of premium, which is mainly comprised of amortization of premium on the acquired AGMH investment portfolio.

Under agreements with its cedants and in accordance with statutory requirements, the Company maintains fixed maturity securities in trust accounts of $344.3 million and $345.7 million as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively, for the benefit of reinsured companies and for the protection of policyholders, generally in states in which the Company or its subsidiaries, as applicable, are not licensed or accredited.

Under certain derivative contracts, the Company is required to post eligible securities as collateral, generally cash or U.S. government or agency securities. The need to post collateral under these transactions is generally based on mark-to-market valuation in excess of contractual thresholds. The fair market value of the Company's pledged securities totaled $649.3 million and $649.6 million as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 respectively.

The Company is not exposed to significant concentrations of credit risk within its investment portfolio.

No material investments of the Company were non-income producing for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

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10. Investment Portfolio (Continued)

Other-Than Temporary Impairment

The following tables present the roll-forward of the credit loss component of the amortized cost of fixed maturity securities for which the Company has recognized OTTI and where the portion of the fair value adjustment related to other factors was recognized in other comprehensive income ("OCI").

Rollfoward of Credit Losses in the Investment Portfolio

		Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

		(in thousands)
Balance, beginning of period		$	19,948
Additions for credit losses on securities for which an OTTI was previously recognized			86

	Balance, end of period	$	20,034

As of March 31, 2010, amounts, net of tax, in accumulated OCI included an unrealized loss of $8.1 million for securities for which the Company had recognized OTTI and an unrealized gain of $150.5 million for securities for which the Company had not recognized OTTI. As of December 31, 2009, amounts, net of tax, in accumulated OCI included an unrealized loss of $11.4 million for securities for which the Company had recognized OTTI and an unrealized gain of $160.6 million for securities for which the Company had not recognized OTTI.

The following tables summarize, for all securities in an unrealized loss position as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 and, the aggregate fair value and gross unrealized loss by length of time the amounts have continuously been in an unrealized loss position.

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Gross Unrealized Loss by Length of Time

		As of March 31, 2010

		Less than 12 months					12 months or more					Total
		Fair value		Unrealized loss			Fair value		Unrealized loss			Fair value		Unrealized loss
		(dollars in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	163.8	$	(1.0	)	$	—	$	—		$	163.8	$	(1.0	)
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			381.3		(2.9	)		43.0		(1.8	)		424.3		(4.7	)
Corporate securities			137.6		(0.7	)		4.1		(0.3	)		141.7		(1.0	)
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		400.6		(32.3	)		18.5		(2.7	)		419.1		(35.0	)
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		21.2		(0.3	)		7.7		(0.2	)		28.9		(0.5	)
Asset-backed securities			30.0		(6.6	)		1.9		(0.1	)		31.9		(6.7	)
Foreign government securities			263.2		(16.5	)		—		—			263.2		(16.5	)

	Total	$	1,397.7	$	(60.3	)	$	75.2	$	(5.1	)	$	1,472.9	$	(65.4	)

	Number of securities				199					20					219

	Number of securities with OTTI				12					1					13

		As of December 31, 2009

		Less than 12 months					12 months or more					Total
		Fair value		Unrealized loss			Fair value		Unrealized loss			Fair value		Unrealized loss
		(dollars in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	292.5	$	(2.7	)	$	—	$	—		$	292.5	$	(2.7	)
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			407.4		(4.1	)		56.9		(2.7	)		464.3		(6.8	)
Corporate securities			287.0		(3.9	)		8.2		(0.5	)		295.2		(4.4	)
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		361.4		(21.6	)		20.5		(2.7	)		381.9		(24.3	)
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		49.5		(2.4	)		56.4		(3.7	)		105.9		(6.1	)
Asset-backed securities			126.1		(7.8	)		2.0		(0.1	)		128.1		(7.9	)
Foreign government securities			270.4		(3.4	)		—		—			270.4		(3.4	)

	Total	$	1,794.3	$	(45.9	)	$	144.0	$	(9.7	)	$	1,938.3	$	(55.6	)

	Number of securities				259					33					292

	Number of securities with OTTI				13					2					15

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10. Investment Portfolio (Continued)

Of the securities in an unrealized loss position for 12 months or more as of March 31, 2010, one security had an unrealized loss greater than 10% of book value. The total unrealized loss for this security as of March 31, 2010 was $2.2 million.

Net Realized Investment Gains (Losses)

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
Realized gains on investment portfolio		$	12,618		$	9,268
Realized losses on investment portfolio			(662	)		(7,932	)
OTTI			(456	)		(18,446	)

Net realized investment (losses) gains on investment portfolio			11,500			(17,110	)
Assets acquired in refinancing transactions			(2,087	)		—

	Net realized investment (losses) gains on investment portfolio and assets acquired in refinancing transactions	$	9,413		$	(17,110	)

11. Income Taxes

The Company and its Bermuda Subsidiaries are not subject to any income, withholding or capital gains taxes under current Bermuda law. The Company has received an assurance from the Minister of Finance in Bermuda that, in the event of any taxes being imposed, the Company and its Bermuda Subsidiaries will be exempt from taxation in Bermuda until March 28, 2016. The Company's U.S. subsidiaries are subject to income taxes imposed by U.S. authorities and file U.S. tax returns.

In conjunction with the AGMH Acquisition on July 1, 2009, AGMH has joined the consolidated federal tax group of AGUS, AGC, and AG Financial Products Inc. ("AGFP"). For the periods beginning on July 1, 2009 and forward AGMH will file a consolidated federal income tax return with AGUS, AGC, and AGFP ("AGUS consolidated tax group"). In addition a new tax sharing agreement was entered into effective July 1, 2009 whereby each company in the AGUS consolidated tax group will pay or receive its proportionate share of taxable expense or benefit as if it filed on a separate return basis. Assured Guaranty Overseas US Holdings Inc. ("AGOUS") and its subsidiaries AGRO, Assured Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company and AG Intermediary Inc., have historically filed a consolidated federal income tax return. AGRO, a Bermuda domiciled company, have elected under Section 953(d) of the Internal Revenue Code to be taxed as a U.S. domestic corporation. Each such company, as a member of its respective consolidated tax return group, has paid its proportionate share of the consolidated federal tax burden for its group as if each company filed on a separate return basis with current period credit for net losses.

The effective rate for First Quarter 2010 and First Quarter 2009 was 26.3% and 14.6%, respectively. The change in the effective tax rate from year to year is primarily due to changes in the proportion of pre-tax income earned in different tax jurisdictions at varying statutory rates.

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11. Income Taxes (Continued)

A reconciliation of the difference between the provision for income taxes and the expected tax provision at statutory rates in taxable jurisdictions is presented below:

Effective Tax Rate Reconciliation

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
Expected tax provision at statutory rates in taxable jurisdictions		$	127,671		$	15,444
Tax-exempt interest			(14,151	)		(4,213	)
Valuation allowance			—			3,386
Change in FIN 48 liability			517			—
Other			908			(9	)

	Total provision (benefit) for income taxes	$	114,945		$	14,608

Taxation of Subsidiaries

The Company and its Bermuda subsidiaries are not subject to any income, withholding or capital gains taxes under current Bermuda law. The Company's U.S. and U.K. subsidiaries are subject to income taxes imposed by U.S. and U.K. authorities and file applicable tax returns. The Company's UK subsidiaries are currently not under exam. In addition, AGRO, a Bermuda domiciled company and Assured Guaranty Europe, a UK domiciled company, have elected under Section 953(d) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to be taxed as a U.S. domestic corporation.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") has completed audits of all of the Company's U.S. subsidiaries' federal income tax returns for taxable years through 2001 except for AGMH, which has been audited through 2006. In September 2007, the IRS completed its audit of tax years 2002 through 2004 for AGOUS, which includes Assured Guaranty Overseas US Holdings Inc., AGRO, AGMIC and AG Intermediary Inc. As a result of the audit there were no significant findings and no cash settlements with the IRS. In addition AGUS is under IRS audit for tax years 2002 through the date of the IPO as part of an audit of ACE Limited ("ACE"), which had been the parent company of certain subsidiaries of the Company prior to the IPO. AGUS includes Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc., AGC and AG Financial Products and were part of the consolidated tax return of a subsidiary of ACE, for years prior to the IPO as part of the audit for ACE. The Company is indemnified by ACE for any potential tax liability associated with the tax examination of AGUS as it relates to years prior to the IPO. AGUS is currently under audit by the IRS for the 2006 through 2008 tax years.

Tax Treatment of CDS

The Company treats the guaranty it provides on CDS as insurance contracts for tax purposes and as such a taxable loss does not occur until the Company expects to make a loss payment to the buyer of credit protection based upon the occurrence of one or more specified credit events with respect to the contractually referenced obligation or entity. The Company holds its CDS to maturity, at which time any unrealized mark to market loss in excess of credit- related losses would revert to zero.

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11. Income Taxes (Continued)

The tax treatment of CDS is an unsettled area of the law. The uncertainty relates to the IRS determination of the income or potential loss associated with CDS as either subject to capital gain (loss) or ordinary income (loss) treatment. In treating CDS as insurance contracts the Company treats both the receipt of premium and payment of losses as ordinary income and believes it is more likely than not that any CDS credit related losses will be treated as ordinary by the IRS. To the extent the IRS takes the view that the losses are capital losses in the future and the Company incurred actual losses associated with the CDS, the Company would need sufficient taxable income of the same character within the carryback and carryforward period available under the tax law.

Valuation Allowance

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, net deferred tax assets, net of valuation allowance of $7.0 million for each period presented, were $1,132.1 million and $1,158.2 million, respectively. The March 31, 2010 deferred tax asset of $1,132.1 million consists primarily of $701.7 million in unearned premium reserves and $139.0 million in mark to market adjustments for CDS, offset by net liabilities. The December 31, 2009 deferred tax asset of $1,158.2 million consisted primarily of $883.5 million in unearned premium reserves and $336.9 million in mark to market adjustment for CDS, offset by net deferred tax liabilities.

The Company came to the conclusion that it is more likely than not that its net deferred tax asset will be fully realized after weighing all positive and negative evidence available as required under GAAP. The evidence that was considered included the following:

Negative Evidence

•: Although the Company believes that income or losses for these CDSs are properly characterized for tax purposes as ordinary, the federal tax treatment is an unsettled area of tax law, as noted above.
•: Changes in the fair value of CDS have resulted in significant swings in the Company's net income in recent periods. Changes in the fair value of CDS in future periods could result in the U.S. consolidated tax group having a pre-tax loss under GAAP. Although not recognized for tax, this loss could result in a cumulative three year pre-tax loss, which is considered significant negative evidence for the recoverability of a deferred tax asset under GAAP.

Positive Evidence

•: The deferred tax asset on unearned premium reserves resulted primarily from the increase in unearned premium reserves from purchase accounting adjustments. As the unearned premiums get amortized into income, the deferred tax asset will be released.
•: The mark-to-market loss on CDS is not considered a tax event, and therefore no taxable loss has occurred.
•: After analysis of the current tax law on CDS the Company believes it is more likely than not that the CDS will be treated as ordinary income or loss for tax purposes.

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•

Assuming a hypothetical loss was triggered for the amount of deferred tax asset, there would be enough taxable income in the future to offset it as follows:

(a): The amortization of the tax-basis unearned premium reserve of $2.9 billion as of March 31, 2010 as well as the collection of future installment premiums on contracts already written, the Company believes, will result in significant taxable income in the future.
(b): Although the Company has a significant tax exempt portfolio, this can be converted to taxable securities as permitted as a tax planning strategy under GAAP.
(c): The mark-to-market loss is reflective of market valuations and will change from quarter to quarter. It is not indicative of the Company's ability to enter new business. The Company writes and continues to write new business which will increase the amortization of unearned premium and investment portfolio resulting in expected taxable income in future periods.

After examining all of the available positive and negative evidence, the Company believes that no additional valuation allowance is necessary in connection with this deferred tax asset. The Company will continue to analyze the need for a valuation allowance on a quarter-to-quarter basis.

As of March 31, 2010, the Company expects net operating loss carry forward ("NOL") of $231.1 million, which expires in 2029, and alternative minimum tax ("AMT") credits of $27.2 million, which never expire, from its AGMH Acquisition. These amounts are calculated based on projections of taxable losses expected to be filed by Dexia for the period ended June 30, 2009. Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code limits the amounts of NOL and AMT credits the Company may utilize each year. Management believes sufficient future taxable income exists to realize the full benefit of these NOL and AMT amounts.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, AGRO had a standalone NOL of $49.9 million, which is available to offset its future U.S. taxable income. The Company has $29.2 million of this NOL available through 2017 and $20.7 million available through 2023. AGRO's stand alone NOL is not permitted to offset the income of any other members of AGRO's consolidated group. Under applicable accounting standards, the Company is required to establish a valuation allowance for NOLs that the Company believes are more likely than not to expire before being utilized. Management has assessed the likelihood of realization of all of its deferred tax assets. Based on this analysis, management believes it is more likely than not that $20.0 million of AGRO's $49.9 million NOL will not be utilized before it expires and has established a $7.0 million valuation allowance related to the NOL deferred tax asset. Management believes that all other deferred income taxes are more-likely-than-not to be realized. The valuation allowance is subject to considerable judgment, is reviewed quarterly and will be adjusted to the extent actual taxable income differs from estimates of future taxable income that may be used to realize NOLs or capital losses.

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12. Reinsurance

The Company assumes and cedes portions of its exposure on insured obligations in exchange for premiums, net of ceding commissions. Assumed business is included in the reinsurance segment, net of retrocessions (i.e. the ceded portion of assumed risks). The direct segment is reported net of third party cessions of its direct financial guaranty business.

The Company enters into ceded reinsurance agreements with non-affiliated companies to limit its exposure to risk on an on-going basis. In the event that any of the reinsurers are unable to meet their obligations, the Company would be liable for such defaulted amounts.

With respect to a significant portion of the Company's in-force financial guaranty reinsurance business, due to the downgrade of AG Re to A1, subject to the terms of each reinsurance agreement, the ceding company may have the right to recapture business ceded to AG Re and assets representing substantially all of the statutory unearned premium and loss reserves (if any) associated with that business. As of March 31, 2010, the statutory unearned premium, which represents deferred revenue to the Company, subject to recapture was approximately $152.1 million. If this entire amount were recaptured, it would result in a corresponding one-time reduction to net income of approximately $16.7 million.

Direct, assumed, and ceded premium and loss and LAE amounts for three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009(1)
		(in thousands)
Premiums Written:
	Direct	$	93,804		$	140,080
	Assumed		(1,715	)		94,678
	Ceded(2)		51,602			38

	Net	$	143,691		$	234,796

Premiums Earned:
	Direct	$	331,571		$	106,463
	Assumed		19,025			46,928
	Ceded		(31,036	)		(4,945	)

	Net	$	319,560		$	148,446

Loss and LAE:
	Direct	$	163,306		$	15,066
	Assumed		28,145			67,228
	Ceded		(60,950	)		(2,540	)

	Net	$	130,501		$	79,754

(1): Amounts assumed by AG Re and AGC from AGMH in periods prior to the AGMH Acquisition are included in the assumed premiums written, premiums earned and loss and LAE amounts above reflecting the separate organizational structures in effect at the time.

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(2): Positive ceded premiums written were due to commutations and changes in expected debt service schedules.

The insured financial guaranty portfolio of the Acquired Companies uses ceded reinsurance to a greater extent than Assured Guaranty has historically used. While certain ceded portfolios have been re-assumed, the Company still has significant ceded reinsurance with third parties.

The Company's reinsurance contracts generally allow the Company to recapture ceded business after certain triggering events, such as reinsurer downgrades.

Ceded Par Outstanding by Reinsurer and Ratings

		Ratings at April 30, 2010

		Ratings at April 30, 2010				Ceded Par Outstanding as a % of Total
Reinsurer		Moody's Reinsurer Rating	S&P Reinsurer Rating	Ceded Par Outstanding(4)		Ceded Par Outstanding as a % of Total
		(dollars in millions)
Radian Asset Assurance Inc. ("Radian")		Ba1	BB-	$	23,452		30.7	%
Tokio Marine and Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. ("Tokio")		Aa2(1)	AA(1)		21,113		27.7
RAM Reinsurance Co. Ltd. ("RAM Re")		WR(2)	WR(2)		14,221		18.6
R.V.I. Guaranty Co., Ltd.		WR(2)	BBB		4,132		5.4
Syncora Guarantee Inc. ("Syncora")		Ca	R(3)		4,127		5.4
Swiss Reinsurance Company ("Swiss Re")		A1	A+		3,985		5.2
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd.		Aa3	AA-		2,508		3.3
Other		Various	Various		2,733		3.7

	Total			$	76,271		100.0	%

(1): The Company has structural collateral agreements satisfying the triple-A credit requirement of S&P and/or Moody's.
(2): Represents "Withdrawn Rating."
(3): Represents "Regulatory Action. Placed under an order of rehabilitation and liquidation."
(4): Includes $11,787 million in ceded par outstanding related to insured credit derivatives.

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Ceded Par Outstanding by Reinsurer and Credit Rating
As of March 31, 2010

		Credit Rating

Reinsurer		Super Senior		AAA		AA		A		BBB		BIG		Total
		(dollars in millions)
Radian		$	235	$	1,075	$	10,467	$	8,599	$	2,807	$	269	$	23,452
Tokio			640		1,868		6,772		7,539		3,512		782		21,113
RAM Re			492		2,291		5,068		3,900		1,991		479		14,221
R.V.I. Guaranty Co., Ltd.			3,227		674		—		231		—		—		4,132
Syncora			—		—		407		761		2,938		21		4,127
Swiss Re			—		26		1,697		1,198		995		69		3,985
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co. Ltd.			14		151		894		987		410		52		2,508
Other			—		1		1,051		1,458		150		73		2,733

	Total	$	4,608	$	6,086	$	26,356	$	24,673	$	12,803	$	1,745	$	76,271

In accordance with statutory accounting requirements and U.S. insurance laws and regulations, in order for the Company to receive credit for liabilities ceded to reinsurers domiciled outside of the U.S., such reinsurers must secure their liabilities to the Company. Except for R.V.I. Guaranty Co., Ltd., which does not secure its ceded contingency reserves, all of the unauthorized reinsurers in the table above post collateral for the benefit of the Company in an amount at least equal to the sum of their ceded unearned premiums reserve, loss reserves and contingency reserves calculated on a statutory basis of accounting. In the case of CIFG Assurance North America Inc. ("CIFG"), included in "Other," and Radian, which are authorized reinsurers and, therefore, are not required to post security, their collateral equals or exceeds their ceded statutory loss reserves. Collateral may be in the form of letters of credit or trust accounts. The total collateral posted by all non-affiliated reinsurers as of March 31, 2010 exceeds $1.17 billion.

Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid losses and LAE as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 were $17.8 million and $14.1 million, respectively. In the event that any or all of the reinsurers are unable to meet their obligations, the Company would be liable for such defaulted amounts.

Agreements with CIFG Assurance North America, Inc.

AGC entered into an agreement with CIFG to assume a diversified portfolio of financial guaranty contracts totaling approximately $13.3 billion of net par outstanding. The Company closed the transaction in January 2009 and received $75.6 million, which included $85.7 million of upfront premiums net of ceding commissions, and approximately $12.2 million of future installments related to this transaction.

In August 2009, AGM and AGE re-assumed approximately $1.8 billion of par outstanding from CIFG, which represented all AGM and AGE business ceded to CIFG, except for one risk which remained with CIFG and which exposure CIFG collateralized. CIFG paid AGM and AGE a total of $31 million in net unearned premiums and paid losses and LAE.

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Agreements with Ambac Assurance Corporation

In October 2009, AGM and AGE and Ambac Assurance Corporation ("Ambac") re-assumed the mutual business ceded between Ambac, on the one hand, and AGM and AGE, on the other. AGM and AGE re-assumed approximately $1 billion of par outstanding from Ambac, and Ambac re-assumed approximately $900 million of outstanding par from AGM and AGE. As compensation for the re-assumptions, Ambac transferred to AGM and AGE AGM-insured bonds with a then outstanding par value of $17.4 million and a then estimated market value of $6.6 million, not taking into account the AGM insurance, and AGM transferred to Ambac Ambac-insured bonds with a then outstanding par value of $8.5 million and a then estimated market value of $1 million, not taking into account the Ambac insurance.

Tokio Marine Agreement

On December 24, 2009, AGM and Tokio entered into a Commitment and Understanding whereby AGM re-assumed during the first quarter 2010 a portfolio of public finance exposures ceded to Tokio and the parties agree to consider a re-assumption during the second quarter 2010 of a second portfolio of public finance exposures. The two portfolios consist in total of approximately $16.2 billion principal amount outstanding as of September 30, 2009. The total re-assumption and commutation amount to be paid by Tokio to AGM if a portfolio is re-assumed in full shall be the statutory unearned premium as of the end of the month prior to the date of the re-assumption (net of ceding commission) plus an additional commutation premium plus any statutory case-basis loss and loss adjustment reserves with respect to the re-assumed business outstanding as of effective date of the re-assumption and commutation. Until a re-assumption and commutation becomes effective under a commutation, re-assumption and release agreement, Tokio shall remain on risk and liable to AGM for all Policy Payments (as defined in the applicable reinsurance agreements), and AGM shall remain liable to Tokio for all premiums, with respect to the cessions to be re-assumed under the respective commutation, re-assumption and release agreement.

Effective as of February 1, 2010, AGM and Tokio entered into a Commutation, Reassumption and Release Agreement for the first portfolio, which consisted of approximately $7.8 billion principal amount outstanding as of January 31, 2010 and represented approximately one-half of the total exposures identified in the Commitment and Understanding. Tokio paid AGM the statutory unearned premium outstanding as of January 31, 2010 plus a commutation premium.

Swiss Re Agreement

Effective as of April 1, 2010, AGM and Swiss Re entered into a Commutation, Reassumption and Release Agreement with respect to $992 million principal amount outstanding as of March 31, 2010 of public finance exposures. Swiss Re paid AGM the statutory unearned premium outstanding as of March 31, 2010 plus a commutation premium.

13. Dividends and Capital Requirements

Each operating company's ability to pay dividends depends, among other things, upon their financial condition, results of operations, cash requirements and compliance with rating agency

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requirements, and is also subject to restrictions contained in the insurance laws and related regulations of their state of domicile and other states.

AGC is a Maryland domiciled insurance company. Under Maryland's 1993 revised insurance law, AGC may pay dividends out of earned surplus in any twelve-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding the lesser of (a) 10% of surplus to policyholders or (b) net investment income at the preceding December 31 (including net investment income which has not already been paid out as dividends for the three calendar years prior to the preceding calendar year) without prior approval of the Maryland Commissioner of Insurance. As of March 31, 2010, the amount available for distribution from the Company during 2010 with notice to, but without prior approval of, the Maryland Commissioner of Insurance under the Maryland insurance law is approximately $108.0 million. During the three months ended March 31, 2010, AGC declared and paid $15.0 million in dividends to AGUS. AGC did not declare or pay dividends during three months ended March 31, 2009. Under Maryland insurance regulations, AGC is required at all times to maintain a minimum surplus of $750,000.

AGM is a New York domiciled insurance company and a subsidiary of the Company. Under the insurance laws of the State of New York (the "New York Insurance Law") and related requirements, AGM may pay dividends out of earned surplus, provided that, together with all dividends declared or distributed by AGM during the preceding 12 months, the dividends do not exceed the lesser of (a) 10% of policyholders' surplus as of its last statement filed with the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York (the "New York Superintendent") or (b) adjusted net investment income (net investment income at the preceding December 31 plus net investment income which has not already been paid out as dividends for the three calendar years prior to the preceding calendar year) during this period. Based on AGM's statutory statements for the three months ended March 31, 2010, the maximum amount available for payment of dividends by AGM without regulatory approval over the 12 months following March 31, 2010 was approximately $81.0 million. Furthermore, in connection with the AGMH Acquisition, the Company has committed to the New York Insurance Department that AGM will not pay any dividends for a period of two years from the Acquisition Date without the written approval of the New York Insurance Department. Under New York insurance regulations, AGM is required at all times to maintain a minimum surplus of $66.5 million.

AG Re's and AGRO's dividend distribution are governed by Bermuda law. Under Bermuda law, dividends may only be paid if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the Company is, or would after the payment be, able to pay its liabilities as they become due and if the realizable value of its assets would thereby not be less than the aggregate of its liabilities and issued share capital and share premium accounts. Distributions to shareholders may also be paid out of statutory capital, but are subject to a 15% limitation without prior approval of the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Dividends are limited by requirements that the subject company must at all times (i) maintain the minimum solvency margin required under the Insurance Act of 1978 and (ii) have relevant assets in an amount at least equal to 75% of relevant liabilities, both as defined under the Insurance Act of 1978. AG Re, as a Class 3B insurer, is prohibited from declaring or paying in any financial year dividends of more than 25% of its total statutory capital and surplus (as shown on its previous financial year's statutory balance sheet) unless it files (at least seven days before payment of such dividends) with the Authority an affidavit stating that it will continue to meet the required margins. The amount available at AG Re to pay dividends in 2010 in compliance with Bermuda law is $1,084.8 million. However, any distribution

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which results in a reduction of 15% of more of AG Re's total statutory capital, as set out in its previous year's financial statements, would require the prior approval of the Bermuda Monetary Authority. During First Quarter 2009, AG Re declared $12.9 million and paid $16.6 million to its parent, AGL. AG Re did not declare or pay any dividends during First Quarter 2010.

14. Related Party Transactions

Each of ACE and Dexia had previously been related parties of the Company.

ACE had been the parent company of certain of the Company's subsidiaries prior to the IPO in 2004 and received approximately 26.0 million AGL common shares in connection with the IPO transactions. During 2009, as a result of AGL's equity offerings in June and December, AGL's issuance of common shares to Dexia for the AGMH Acquisition and sale by ACE of some of its AGL common shares, ACE's ownership of AGL was significantly reduced such that, as of January 31, 2010, it owned approximately 3.1% of AGL's outstanding common shares.

Dexia received approximately 22.3 million AGL common shares as part of the purchase price for the AGMH Acquisition. On March 16, 2010, Dexia sold all of such AGL common shares in a secondary public offering.

As a result of these transactions, ACE and Dexia are not considered related parties of the Company as of March 31, 2010.

15. Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

Litigation

Lawsuits arise in the ordinary course of the Company's business. It is the opinion of the Company's management, based upon the information available, that the expected outcome of litigation against the Company, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial position or liquidity, although an adverse resolution of litigation against the Company could have a material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations in a particular quarter or fiscal year. In addition, in the ordinary course of their respective businesses, certain of the Company's subsidiaries assert claims in legal proceedings against third parties to recover losses paid in prior periods. The amounts, if any, the Company will recover in these proceedings are uncertain, although recoveries, or failure to obtain recoveries, in any one or more of these proceedings during any quarter or fiscal year could be material to the Company's results of operations in that particular quarter or fiscal year.

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Proceedings Related to AGMH's Former Financial Products Business

The following is a description of legal proceedings involving AGMH's former Financial Products Business. Although the Company did not acquire AGMH's former Financial Products Business, which included AGMH's former GICs business, MTN business and portions of the leveraged lease businesses, certain legal proceedings relating to those businesses are against entities which the Company did acquire. While Dexia SA and DCL, jointly and severally, have agreed to indemnify the Company against liability arising out of the proceedings described below in this "—Proceedings Related to AGMH's Former Financial Products Business" section, such indemnification might not be sufficient to fully hold the Company harmless against any injunctive relief or criminal sanction that is imposed against AGMH or its subsidiaries.

Governmental Investigations into Former Financial Products Business

AGMH and AGM have received subpoenas duces tecum and interrogatories or civil investigative demands from the Attorney General of the States of Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Texas and West Virginia relating to their investigations of alleged bid rigging of municipal GICs. AGMH is responding to such requests. AGMH may receive additional inquiries from these or other regulators and expects to provide additional information to such regulators regarding their inquiries in the future. In addition,

•: AGMH received a subpoena from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in November 2006 issued in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation of bid rigging of awards of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives;
•: AGM received a subpoena from the SEC in November 2006 related to an ongoing industry-wide investigation concerning the bidding of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives; and
•: AGMH received a "Wells Notice" from the staff of the Philadelphia Regional Office of the SEC in February 2008 relating to the investigation concerning the bidding of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives. The Wells Notice indicates that the SEC staff is considering recommending that the SEC authorize the staff to bring a civil injunctive action and/or institute administrative proceedings against AGMH, alleging violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act.

Pursuant to the subpoenas, AGMH has furnished to the Department of Justice and SEC records and other information with respect to AGMH's municipal GIC business. The ultimate loss that may arise from these investigations remains uncertain.

Lawsuits Relating to Former Financial Products Business

During 2008, nine putative class action lawsuits were filed in federal court alleging federal antitrust violations in the municipal derivatives industry, seeking damages and alleging, among other things, a conspiracy to fix the pricing of, and manipulate bids for, municipal derivatives, including GICs. These cases have been coordinated and consolidated for pretrial proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York as MDL 1950, In re Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 1:08-cv-2516 ("MDL 1950").

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Five of these cases named both AGMH and AGM: (a) Hinds County, Mississippi v. Wachovia Bank, N.A. (filed on or about March 13, 2008); (b) Fairfax County, Virginia v. Wachovia Bank, N.A. (filed on or about March 12, 2008); (c) Central Bucks School District, Pennsylvania v. Wachovia Bank N.A. (filed on or about June 4, 2008); (d) Mayor & City Council of Baltimore, Maryland v. Wachovia Bank N.A. (filed on or about July 3, 2008); and (e) Washington County, Tennessee v. Wachovia Bank N.A. (filed on or about July 14, 2008). In April 2009, the MDL 1950 court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss on the federal claims, but granted leave for the plaintiffs to file a second amended complaint. On June 18, 2009, interim lead plaintiffs' counsel filed a Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint. The complaints in these lawsuits generally seek unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees and other costs. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits; although the Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint currently describes some of AGMH's and AGM's activities, it does not name those entities as defendants. On March 25, 2010, the MDL 1950 court denied the named defendants' motions to dismiss the Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint.

Four of the cases named only AGMH and also alleged that the defendants violated California state antitrust law and common law by engaging in illegal bid-rigging and market allocation, thereby depriving the cities of competition in the awarding of GICs and ultimately resulting in the cities paying higher fees for these products: (a) City of Oakland, California, v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about April 23, 2008); (b) County of Alameda, California v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about July 8, 2008); (c) City of Fresno, California v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about July 17, 2008); and (d) Fresno County Financing Authority v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about December 24, 2008). When the four plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint in September 2009, the plaintiffs did not name AGMH as a defendant. However, the complaint does describe some of AGMH's and AGM's activities. The consolidated complaint generally seeks unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees and other costs. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits. Motions to dismiss the consolidated complaint filed by these California municipalities were filed on February 9, 2010.

AGMH and AGM also were named in five non-class action lawsuits originally filed in the California Superior Courts alleging violations of California law related to the municipal derivatives industry: (a) City of Los Angeles v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about July 23, 2008 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles, Case No. BC 394944, removed to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ("C.D. Cal.") as Case No. 2:08-cv-5574, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:08-cv-10351); (b) City of Stockton v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about July 23, 2008 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of San Francisco, Case No. CGC-08-477851, removed to the N.D. Cal. as Case No. 3:08-cv-4060, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:08-cv-10350); (c) County of San Diego v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about August 28, 2008 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles, Case No. SC 99566, removed to C.D. Cal. as Case No. 2:08-cv-6283, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:09-cv-1195); (d) County of San Mateo v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about October 7, 2008 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of San Francisco, Case No. CGC-08-480664, removed to N.D. Cal. as Case No. 3:08-cv-4751, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:09-cv-1196); and (e) County of Contra Costa v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about October 8, 2008 in the Superior Court of the State of

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California in and for the County of San Francisco, Case No. CGC-08-480733, removed to N.D. Cal. as Case No. 3:08-cv-4752, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:09-cv-1197). Amended complaints in these actions were filed on September 15, 2009, adding a federal antitrust claim and naming AGM (but not AGMH), among other defendants including AGUS. These cases have been transferred to the S.D.N.Y. and consolidated with MDL 1950 for pretrial proceedings.

In late 2009 the same California plaintiffs' counsel named AGM as well as AGUS in six additional non-class action cases filed in federal court, which also have been coordinated and consolidated for pretrial proceedings with MDL 1950: (f) City of Riverside v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about November 12, 2009 in the C.D. Cal., Case No. 2:09-cv-8284, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:09-cv-10102); (g) Sacramento Municipal Utility District v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about November 12, 2009 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ("E.D. Cal."), Case No. 2:09-cv-3133, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:09-cv-10103; (h) Los Angeles World Airports v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about December 10, 2009 in C.D. Cal., Case No. 2:09-cv-9069, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:10-cv-627; (i) Redevelopment Agency of the City of Stockton v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about December 10, 2009 in E.D. Cal., Case No. 2:09-cv-3437, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:10-cv-630; (j) Sacramento Suburban Water District v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about December 10, 2009 in E.D. Cal., Case No. 2:09-cv-3433, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:10-cv-629; and (k) County of Tulare v. Bank of America, N.A. (filed on or about December 10, 2009 in E.D. Cal., Case No. 1:09-cv-02155, transferred to S.D.N.Y. as Case No. 1:10-cv-628.

Motions to dismiss these eleven complaints, all of which include a federal antitrust claim as well as California state law claims, were filed on February 9, 2010. The complaints in these lawsuits generally seek unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees, costs and other expenses. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits.

Proceedings Relating to the Company's Financial Guaranty Business

The Company has received subpoenas duces tecum and interrogatories from the State of Connecticut Attorney General and the Attorney General of the State of California related to antitrust concerns associated with the methodologies used by rating agencies for determining the credit rating of municipal debt, including a proposal by Moody's to assign corporate equivalent ratings to municipal obligations, and the Company's communications with rating agencies. The Company has satisfied or is in the process of satisfying such requests. It may receive additional inquiries from these or other regulators and expects to provide additional information to such regulators regarding their inquiries in the future.

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five of which were amended complaints and three of which were new complaints: (a) City of Los Angeles v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-394943; (b) City of Oakland v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-479241; (c) City of Riverside v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-09-492059; (d) City of Stockton v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al. , Case No. CGC-08-477848; (e) County of Alameda v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-481447; (f) County of Contra Costa v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al , Case No. CGC-09-492055; (g) County of San Mateo v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-080481223; and (h) Los Angeles World Airports v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-09-492057.

These complaints allege (i) participation in a conspiracy in violation of California's antitrust laws to maintain a dual credit rating scale that misstated the credit default risk of municipal bond issuers and created market demand for municipal bond insurance, (ii) participation in risky financial transactions in other lines of business that damaged each bond insurer's financial condition (thereby undermining the value of each of their guaranties), and (iii) a failure to adequately disclose the impact of those transactions on their financial condition. These latter allegations form the predicate for five separate causes of action against AGC: breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, fraud, negligence, and negligent misrepresentation. The complaints in these lawsuits generally seek unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees, costs and other expenses. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits.

In August 2008 a number of financial institutions and other parties, including AGM, were named as defendants in a civil action brought in the circuit court of Jefferson County, Alabama relating to the County's problems meeting its debt obligations on its $3.2 billion sewer debt: Charles E. Wilson vs. JPMorgan Chase & Co et al (filed on or about August 8, 2008 in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama), Case No. 01-CV-2008-901907.00, a putative class action. The action was brought on behalf of rate payers, tax payers and citizens residing in Jefferson County, and alleges conspiracy and fraud in connection with the issuance of the County's debt. The complaint in this lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees and other costs. At a hearing on March 1, 2010, the court on its own motion struck all of the plaintiffs' complaints with leave to amend. The court instructed plaintiffs to file one consolidated complaint on May 7, 2010. On May 6, 2010, plaintiffs requested and received an extension until May 28, 2010 to file the consolidated complaint. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from this lawsuit.

Reinsurance

The Company is party to reinsurance agreements with other monoline financial guaranty insurance companies. The Company's facultative and treaty agreements are generally subject to termination:

(a): upon written notice (ranging from 90 to 120 days) prior to the specified deadline for renewal,
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insurance laws and to maintain a specified financial strength rating for the particular insurance subsidiary, or

(c): upon certain changes of control of the Company.

Upon termination under the conditions set forth in (b) and (c) above, the Company may be required (under some of its reinsurance agreements) to return to the primary insurer all statutory unearned premiums, less ceding commissions, attributable to reinsurance ceded pursuant to such agreements after which the Company would be released from liability with respect to the ceded business. Upon the occurrence of the conditions set forth in (b) above, whether or not an agreement is terminated, the Company may be required to obtain a letter of credit or alternative form of security to collateralize its obligation to perform under such agreement or it may be obligated to increase the level of ceding commission paid. See Note 12.

16. Summary of Relationships with Monolines

The tables below summarize the exposure to each financial guaranty monoline insurer by exposure category and the underlying ratings of the Company's insured risks.

Summary of Relationships With Monolines

		As of March 31, 2010

		Insured Portfolios
		Assumed Par Outstanding		Second-to-Pay Insured Par Outstanding		Ceded Par Outstanding		Investment Portfolio
		(in millions)
Radian		$	—	$	85	$	23,452	$	1.5
RAM Re			24		—		14,221		—
Syncora			947		2,904		4,127		15.8
ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation			2		19		971		—
Financial Guaranty Insurance Company ("FGIC")			3,895		3,627		256		21.9
MBIA Insurance Corporation ("MBIA")			13,972		12,487		211		1,036.1
Ambac			29,653		8,784		110		759.8
CIFG			12,734		265		73		22.3
Multiple owner			1,754		2,829		—		—

	Total	$	62,981	$	31,000	$	43,421	$	1,857.4

Assumed par outstanding represents the amount of par assumed by the Company from other monolines. Under these relationships, the Company assumes a portion of the ceding company's insured risk in exchange for a premium. The Company may be exposed to risk in this portfolio in that the Company may be required to pay losses without a corresponding premium in circumstances where the ceding company is experiencing financial distress and is unable to pay premiums.

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Second-to-pay insured par outstanding represents transactions the Company has insured on a second-to-pay basis that were previously insured by other monolines. The Company underwrites such transactions based on the underlying insured obligation without regard to the primary insurer.

Ceded par outstanding represents the portion of insured risk ceded to other reinsurers. Under these relationships, the Company cedes a portion of its insured risk in exchange for a premium paid to the reinsurer. The Company remains primarily liable for all risks it directly underwrites and is required to pay all gross claims. It then seeks reimbursement from the reinsurer for its proportionate share of claims. The Company may be exposed to risk for this exposure if were required to pay the gross claims and not be able to collect ceded claims from an assuming company experiencing financial distress. A number of the financial guaranty insurers to which the Company has ceded par has experienced financial distress and been downgraded by the rating agencies as a result. In addition, state insurance regulators have intervened with respect to some of these insurers. For example, Syncora was ordered by the New York Insurance Department in April 2009 to suspend payment of claims and undertake a comprehensive restructuring to remediate its policyholders' surplus deficit and restore its minimum surplus to policyholders. On April 12, 2010, Syncora announced that although it had closed the outstanding transaction that formed part of the restructuring, it was still prohibited by the New York Insurance Department from paying claims because it is currently faced with significant short-term liquidity and surplus issues. More recently, Ambac announced that at the request of the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Wisconsin, it had established a segregated account for certain of its liabilities related to credit derivatives, RMBS and other structured finance and public finance transactions and that in conjunction therewith, the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Wisconsin has commenced rehabilitation proceedings with respect to liabilities contained in the segregated account in order to facilitate an orderly run-off and/or settlement of those liabilities. In accordance with statutory accounting requirements and U.S. insurance laws and regulations, in order for the Company to receive credit for liabilities ceded to reinsurers domiciled outside of the U.S., such reinsurers must secure their liabilities to the Company. Most of the unauthorized reinsurers in the table above post collateral for the benefit of the Company in an amount at least equal to the sum of their ceded unearned premiums reserve, loss reserves and contingency reserves calculated on a statutory basis of accounting. In the case of CIFG, included in "Other," and Radian, which are authorized reinsurers and, therefore, are not required to post security, their collateral equals or exceeds their ceded statutory loss reserves. Collateral may be in the form of letters of credit or trust accounts. The total collateral posted by all non-affiliated reinsurers as of March 31, 2010 exceeds $1.17 billion.

Securities within the investment portfolio that are wrapped by monolines may decline in value based on the rating of the monoline.

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The table below presents the insured par outstanding categorized by rating as of March 31, 2010:

Insured Par Outstanding
As of March 31, 2010(1)

		Public Finance										Structured Finance

		AAA		AA		A		BBB		BIG		AAA		AA		A		BBB		BIG		Total
		(in millions)
Radian		$	—	$	—	$	14	$	49	$	20	$	2	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	85
Syncora			—		—		448		964		—		312		347		125		329		379		2,904
ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation			—		13		—		3		3		—		—		—		—		—		19
FGIC			—		171		1,172		879		—		911		200		178		28		88		3,627
MBIA			77		3,147		5,468		1,522		30		—		1,524		42		672		5		12,487
Ambac			18		2,641		3,155		1,220		252		352		63		318		345		420		8,784
CIFG			—		11		69		140		45		—		—		—		—		—		265
Multiple owner			864		2		1,963		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		2,829

	Total	$	959	$	5,985	$	12,289	$	4,777	$	350	$	1,577	$	2,134	$	663	$	1,374	$	892	$	31,000

(1): Assured Guaranty's internal rating.

17. Long-Term Debt, Notes Payable and Credit Facilities

In evaluating transactions in which another monoline has provided financial guaranty insurance and the Company would be obligated to pay upon its financial guaranty policies on a second-to-pay basis, the Company evaluates the underlying transactions in accordance with its underwriting guidelines.

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The principal and carrying values of the Company's long-term debt issued by AGUS and AGMH and notes payable issued by AGM were as follows:

				As of March 31, 2010				As of December 31, 2009

				Principal		Carrying Value		Principal		Carrying Value
				(in thousands)
AGUS:
	7.0% Senior Notes			$	200,000	$	197,491	$	200,000	$	197,481
	8.50% Senior Notes				172,500		170,356		172,500		170,137
	Series A Enhanced Junior Subordinated Debentures				150,000		149,803		150,000		149,796

		Total AGUS			522,500		517,650		522,500		517,414
AGMH:
	6⁷/8% QUIBS				100,000		66,752		100,000		66,661
	6.25% Notes				230,000		134,176		230,000		133,917
	5.60% Notes				100,000		52,660		100,000		52,534
	Junior Subordinated Debentures				300,000		148,255		300,000		146,836

		Total AGMH			730,000		401,843		730,000		399,948

			Total long-term debt		1,252,500		919,493		1,252,500		917,362
Notes Payable					133,782		142,403		140,145		149,051

		Total		$	1,386,252	$	1,061,896	$	1,392,645	$	1,066,413

Credit Facilities

2006 Credit Facility

On November 6, 2006, AGL and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a $300.0 million five-year unsecured revolving credit facility (the "2006 Credit Facility") with a syndicate of banks. Under the 2006 Credit Facility, each of AGC, AGUK, AG Re, AGRO and AGL are entitled to request the banks to make loans to such borrower or to request that letters of credit be issued for the account of such borrower. Of the $300.0 million available to be borrowed, no more than $100.0 million may be borrowed by AGL, AG Re or AGRO, individually or in the aggregate, and no more than $20.0 million may be borrowed by AGUK. The stated amount of all outstanding letters of credit and the amount of all unpaid drawings in respect of all letters of credit cannot, in the aggregate, exceed $100.0 million. The 2006 Credit Facility also provides that Assured Guaranty may request that the commitment of the banks be increased an additional $100.0 million up to a maximum aggregate amount of $400.0 million. Any such incremental commitment increase is subject to certain conditions provided in the agreement and must be for at least $25.0 million.

The proceeds of the loans and letters of credit are to be used for the working capital and other general corporate purposes of the borrowers and to support reinsurance transactions.

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At the closing of the 2006 Credit Facility, AGC guaranteed the obligations of AGUK under the facility and AGL guaranteed the obligations of AG Re and AGRO under the facility and agreed that, if the Company consolidated assets (as defined in the related credit agreement) of AGC and its subsidiaries were to fall below $1.2 billion, it would, within 15 days, guarantee the obligations of AGC and AGUK under the facility. At the same time, AGOUS guaranteed the obligations of AGL, AG Re and AGRO under the facility, and each of AG Re and AGRO guaranteed the other as well as AGL.

The 2006 Credit Facility's financial covenants require that AGL:

(a): maintain a minimum net worth of 75% of the Consolidated Net Worth of Assured Guaranty as of the June 30, 2009 (calculated as if the AGMH Acquisition had been consummated on such date); and
(b): maintain a maximum debt-to-capital ratio of 30%.

In addition, the 2006 Credit Facility requires that AGC maintain qualified statutory capital of at least 75% of its statutory capital as of the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2006. Furthermore, the 2006 Credit Facility contains restrictions on AGL and its subsidiaries, including, among other things, in respect of their ability to incur debt, permit liens, become liable in respect of guaranties, make loans or investments, pay dividends or make distributions, dissolve or become party to a merger, consolidation or acquisition, dispose of assets or enter into affiliate transactions. Most of these restrictions are subject to certain minimum thresholds and exceptions. The 2006 Credit Facility has customary events of default, including (subject to certain materiality thresholds and grace periods) payment default, failure to comply with covenants, material inaccuracy of representation or warranty, bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, change of control and cross-default to other debt agreements. A default by one borrower will give rise to a right of the lenders to terminate the facility and accelerate all amounts then outstanding. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, Assured Guaranty was in compliance with all of the financial covenants.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility. There have not been any borrowings under the 2006 Credit Facility.

Letters of credit totaling approximately $2.9 million remained outstanding as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009. The Company obtained the letters of credit in connection with entering into a lease for new office space in 2008, which space was subsequently sublet.

2009 Strip Coverage Liquidity Agreement

In connection with the AGMH Acquisition, AGM agreed to retain the risks relating to the debt and strip policy portions of the leveraged lease business. The liquidity risk to AGM related to the strip policy portion of the leveraged lease business is mitigated by the strip coverage facility described below.

In a leveraged lease transaction, a tax-exempt entity (such as a transit agency) transfers tax benefits to a tax-paying entity by transferring ownership of a depreciable asset, such as subway cars. The tax-exempt entity then leases the asset back from its new owner.

If the lease is terminated early, the tax-exempt entity must make an early termination payment to the lessor. A portion of this early termination payment is funded from monies that were pre-funded

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and invested at the closing of the leveraged lease transaction (along with earnings on those invested funds); the tax-exempt entity is obligated to pay the remaining, unfunded portion of this early termination payment (known as the "strip coverage") from its own sources. AGM issued financial guaranty insurance policies (known as "strip policies") that guaranteed the payment of these unfunded strip coverage amounts to the lessor, in the event that a tax-exempt entity defaulted on its obligation to pay this portion of its early termination payment. AGM can then seek reimbursement of its strip policy payments from the tax-exempt entity, and can also sell the transferred depreciable asset and reimburse itself from the sale proceeds.

On July 1, 2009, AGM and DCL, acting through its New York Branch ("Dexia Crédit Local (NY)"), entered into a credit facility (the "Strip Coverage Facility"). DCL is a subsidiary of Dexia. Under the Strip Coverage Facility, Dexia Crédit Local (NY) agreed to make loans to AGM to finance all draws made by lessors on AGM strip policies that were outstanding as of November 13, 2008, up to the commitment amount. The commitment amount of the Strip Coverage Facility was $1 billion at closing of the AGMH Acquisition but is scheduled to amortize over time; it may also be reduced in 2014 to $750 million, if AGM does not have a specified consolidated net worth at that time.

Fundings under this facility are subject to certain conditions precedent, and their repayment is collateralized by a security interest that AGM granted to Dexia Crédit Local (NY) in amounts that AGM recovers—from the tax-exempt entity, or from asset sale proceeds—following its payment of strip policy claims. The Strip Coverage Facility will terminate upon the earliest to occur of an AGM change of control, the reduction of the commitment amount to $0, and January 31, 2042.

The Strip Coverage Facility's financial covenants require that AGM and its subsidiaries maintain a maximum debt-to-capital ratio of 30% and maintain a minimum net worth of (a) 75% of consolidated net worth as of July 1, 2009, plus (b) 25% of the aggregate consolidated net income (or loss) for the period beginning July 1, 2009 and ending on June 30, 2014 or, if the commitment amount has been reduced to $750 million as described above, zero. The Company is in compliance with all covenants as of the date of this filing.

The Strip Coverage Facility contains restrictions on AGM, including, among other things, in respect of its ability to incur debt, permit liens, pay dividends or make distributions, dissolve or become party to a merger or consolidation. Most of these restrictions are subject to exceptions. The Strip Coverage Facility has customary events of default, including (subject to certain materiality thresholds and grace periods) payment default, bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings and cross-default to other debt agreements.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 no amounts were outstanding under this facility, nor have there been any borrowings during the life of this facility.

Limited Recourse Credit Facilities

AG Re Credit Facility

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AG Re has incurred, during the term of the facility, cumulative municipal losses (net of any recoveries) in excess of the greater of $260 million or the average annual debt service of the covered portfolio multiplied by 4.5%. The obligation to repay loans under this agreement is a limited recourse obligation payable solely from, and collateralized by, a pledge of recoveries realized on defaulted insured obligations in the covered portfolio, including certain installment premiums and other collateral.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility nor have there been any borrowings during the life of this facility.

AGM Credit Facility

On April 30, 2005, AGM entered into a limited recourse credit facility ("AGM Credit Facility") with a syndicate of international banks which provides up to $297.5 million for the payment of losses in respect of the covered portfolio. The AGM Credit Facility expires April 30, 2015. The facility can be utilized after AGM has incurred, during the term of the facility, cumulative municipal losses (net of any recoveries) in excess of the greater of $297.5 million or the average annual debt service of the covered portfolio multiplied by 5.0%. The obligation to repay loans under this agreement is a limited recourse obligation payable solely from, and collateralized by, a pledge of recoveries realized on defaulted insured obligations in the covered portfolio, including certain installment premiums and other collateral. The ratings downgrade of AGM by Moody's to Aa3 in November 2008 resulted in an increase to the commitment fee.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility nor have there been any borrowings during the life of this facility.

Committed Capital Securities

Committed Capital Securities

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
AGC CCS:
	Put option premium (expense)	$	(1,478	)	$	(1,400	)
	Change in fair value		1,421			19,666
AGM CPS:
	Put option premium (expense)		(1,075	)		—
	Change in fair value		(2,696	)		—

AGC CCS Securities

On April 8, 2005, AGC entered into separate agreements (the "Put Agreements") with four custodial trusts (each, a "Custodial Trust") pursuant to which AGC may, at its option, cause each of the Custodial Trusts to purchase up to $50.0 million of perpetual preferred stock of AGC (the "AGC Preferred Stock"). The custodial trusts were created as a vehicle for providing capital support to AGC by allowing AGC to obtain immediate access to new capital at its sole discretion at any time through

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the exercise of the put option. If the put options were exercised, AGC would receive $200.0 million in return for the issuance of its own perpetual preferred stock, the proceeds of which may be used for any purpose, including the payment of claims. The put options have not been exercised through the date of this filing. Initially, all of AGC CCS Securities were issued to a special purpose pass-through trust (the "Pass-Through Trust"). The Pass-Through Trust was dissolved in April 2008 and the AGC CCS Securities were distributed to the holders of the Pass-Through Trust's securities. Neither the Pass-Through Trust nor the custodial trusts are consolidated in the Company's financial statements.

Income distributions on the Pass-Through Trust Securities and AGC CCS Securities were equal to an annualized rate of one-month LIBOR plus 110 basis points for all periods ending on or prior to April 8, 2008. Following dissolution of the Pass-Through Trust, distributions on the AGC CCS Securities are determined pursuant to an auction process. On April 7, 2008 this auction process failed, thereby increasing the annualized rate on the AGC CCS Securities to One-Month LIBOR plus 250 basis points. Distributions on the AGC preferred stock will be determined pursuant to the same process.

The increase in First Quarter 2010 compared with First Quarter 2009 was due to the increase in annualized rates from One-Month LIBOR plus 110 basis points to One-Month LIBOR plus 250 basis points as a result of the failed auction process in April 2008. These expenses are recorded in the Company's consolidated statements of operations under "other operating expenses".

Fair value of AGC CCS Securities was $5.4 million and $4.0 million as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively.

AGM CPS Securities

In June 2003, $200.0 million of "AGM CPS Securities," money market preferred trust securities, were issued by trusts created for the primary purpose of issuing the AGM CPS Securities, investing the proceeds in high-quality commercial paper and selling put options to AGM, allowing AGM to issue the trusts non-cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred stock (the "AGM Preferred Stock") of AGM in exchange for cash. There are four trusts, each with an initial aggregate face amount of $50 million. These trusts hold auctions every 28 days, at which time investors submit bid orders to purchase AGM CPS Securities. If AGM were to exercise a put option, the applicable trust would transfer the portion of the proceeds attributable to principal received upon maturity of its assets, net of expenses, to AGM in exchange for AGM Preferred Stock. AGM pays a floating put premium to the trusts, which represents the difference between the commercial paper yield and the winning auction rate (plus all fees and expenses of the trust). If an auction does not attract sufficient clearing bids, however, the auction rate is subject to a maximum rate of one-month LIBOR plus 200 basis points for the next succeeding distribution period. Beginning in August 2007, the AGM CPS Securities required the maximum rate for each of the relevant trusts. AGM continues to have the ability to exercise its put option and cause the related trusts to purchase AGM Preferred Stock. The trusts provide AGM access to new capital at its sole discretion through the exercise of the put options. The Company does not consider itself to be the primary beneficiary of the trusts because it does not retain the majority of the residual benefits or expected losses.

Fair value of AGM CPS Securities was $2.9 million and $5.5 million as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively.

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18. Employee Benefit Plans

Share-Based Compensation

Share-Based Compensation Summary

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010		2009
	(in millions)
Share-based compensation cost, before the effects of deferred acquisition costs, pre tax	$	7.0	$	4.3
Share-based compensation cost, before the effects of deferred acquisition costs, after-tax		5.6		3.5
Share based compensation expense for retirement-eligible employees, pre-tax		4.6		2.0
Share based compensation expense for retirement-eligible employees, after-tax		3.8		1.8

Cash-Based Compensation

Performance Retention Plan

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010		2009
	(in millions)
Performance Retention Plan expense, pre-tax	$	8.0	$	5.2
Performance Retention Plan expense, after-tax		5.5		4.4
Performance Retention Plan expense for retirement-eligible employees, pre-tax		6.0		4.3

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19. Earnings Per Share

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Basic earnings per share:
Net income (loss) attributable to AGL		$	321,975	$	85,489
Less: Distributed and undistributed income (loss) available to nonvested shareholders			480		501

Distributed and undistributed income (loss) available to common shareholders of AGL and subsidiaries		$	321,495	$	84,988

Basic shares			184,265		90,811
Basic EPS		$	1.74	$	0.94
Diluted earnings per share:
Distributed and undistributed income (loss) available to common shareholders of AGL and subsidiaries		$	321,495	$	84,988
Plus: Re-allocation of undistributed income (loss) available to nonvested shareholders of AGL and subsidiaries			16		—

Distributed and undistributed income (loss) available to common shareholders of AGL and subsidiaries		$	321,511	$	84,988

Basic shares			184,265		90,811
Effect of dilutive securities:
	Options and restricted stock awards		971		364
	Equity units		5,383		—

Diluted shares			190,619		91,175

Diluted EPS		$	1.69	$	0.93

Potentially dilutive securities representing approximately 2.2 million and 4.8 million common shares for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share for these periods because their effect would have been antidilutive.

20. Other Income and Other Operating Expenses

The following tables show the components of "other income" and segregate the components of operating expenses not considered in underwriting gains (losses) in segment disclosures in Note 21.

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Other Income

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
Foreign exchange gain on revaluation of premium receivable (See Note 7)		$	(31,136	)	$	—
Other			18,210			902

	Other income included in underwriting gain (loss)		(12,926	)		902
SERP(1)			1,822			—

	Other income	$	(11,104	)	$	902

Other Operating Expenses

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in thousands)
Other operating expenses		$	64,358	$	29,352
Less: CCS premium expense			2,553		1,400
Less: SERP			1,825		—

	Other operating expenses included in underwriting gain (loss)	$	59,980	$	27,952

(1): Supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP") assets are held to defease the Company's plan obligations. The changes in fair value may vary significantly from period to period. Increases or decreases in the fair value of the assets are recorded in "other income" and are primarily offset by like changes in the fair value of the related liability, which are recorded in "other operating expenses".

The increase in other operating expenses for First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 was mainly due to the addition of other operating expenses of AGMH. The CCS Premium expense reflects the put option premiums associated with AGC's CCS and the AGM CPS Securities. The increase in First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 was due to the inclusion in 2009 of put option premiums on AGM CPS Securities of $1.1 million. Variances in expenses other than those related to AGMH were not significant.

21. Segment Reporting

The Company has two principal business segments:

(1): financial guaranty direct, which includes transactions whereby the Company provides an unconditional and irrevocable guaranty that indemnifies the holder of a financial obligation against non-payment of principal and interest when due, and may take the form of a credit

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derivative. This segment includes the results of operations for AGMH as of the Acquisition Date forward, including business these entities have ceded to AG Re, which was included in the Company's financial guaranty reinsurance business prior to the Acquisition Date;

(2): financial guaranty reinsurance, which includes agreements whereby the Company is a reinsurer and agrees to indemnify a primary insurance company against part or all of the loss which the latter may sustain under a financial guaranty policy it has issued; and

Other includes mortgage guaranty insurance whereby the Company provides protection against the default of borrowers on mortgage loans, and lines of business (including equity layer credit protection, trade credit reinsurance, title reinsurance and auto residual value reinsurance) in which the Company is no longer active.

The Company does not segregate assets and liabilities at a segment level since management reviews and controls these assets and liabilities on a consolidated basis. The Company allocates operating expenses to each segment based on a comprehensive cost study and is based on departmental time estimates and headcount.

The Company manages its business without regard to accounting requirements to consolidate certain VIEs. As a result, underwriting gain or loss includes results of operations as if consolidated VIEs were accounted for as insurance.

The following table summarizes the components of underwriting gain (loss) for each reporting segment:

Underwriting Gain (Loss) by Segment

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

	Financial Guaranty Direct			Financial Guaranty Reinsurance			Other			Underwriting Gain (Loss)			Consolidation of VIEs			Total
	(in millions)
Net earned premiums	$	306.6		$	18.4		$	0.6		$	325.6		$	(6.0	)	$	319.6
Realized gains on credit derivatives(1)		55.0			(0.3	)		—			54.7			—			54.7
Other income		(5.1	)		(7.8	)		—			(12.9	)		—			(12.9	)
Loss and loss adjustment (expenses) recoveries		(112.3	)		(28.2	)		—			(140.5	)		10.0			(130.5	)
Incurred losses on credit derivatives		(74.6	)		(1.8	)		—			(76.4	)		—			(76.4	)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs		(3.8	)		(4.3	)		(0.1	)		(8.2	)		—			(8.2	)
Other operating expenses		(49.7	)		(9.4	)		(0.9	)		(60.0	)		—			(60.0	)

Underwriting gain (loss)	$	116.1		$	(33.4	)	$	(0.4	)	$	82.3

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	Three Months Ended March 31, 2009

	Financial Guaranty Direct			Financial Guaranty Reinsurance			Other			Total
	(in millions)
Net earned premiums	$	101.5		$	46.2		$	0.7		$	148.4
Realized gains on credit derivatives(1)		28.8			0.9			—			29.7
Other income		0.8			0.1			—			0.9
Loss and loss adjustment (expenses) recoveries		(11.7	)		(36.8	)		(31.3	)		(79.8	)
Incurred losses on credit derivatives		(1.4	)		0.4			—			(1.0	)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs		(6.2	)		(17.1	)		(0.1	)		(23.4	)
Other operating expenses		(20.6	)		(6.7	)		(0.7	)		(28.0	)

Underwriting gain (loss)	$	91.2		$	(13.0	)	$	(31.4	)	$	46.8

(1): Comprised of premiums and ceding commissions.

Reconciliation of Underwriting Gain (Loss)
to Income (Loss) before Income Taxes

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010			2009
	(in millions)
Total underwriting gain	$	82.3		$	46.8
Net investment income		84.3			43.6
Net realized investment gains (losses)		9.4			(17.1	)
Unrealized gains on credit derivatives, excluding incurred losses on credit derivatives		300.5			18.9
Fair value gain (loss) on committed capital securities		(1.3	)		19.7
Financial guaranty VIE net revenues and expenses		(10.6	)		—
Other income		1.8			—
AGMH acquisition-related expenses		(4.0	)		(4.6	)
Interest expense		(25.1	)		(5.8	)
Other operating expenses		(4.4	)		(1.4	)
Elimination of insurance accounts for VIE		4.0			—

Income before provision for income taxes	$	436.9		$	100.1

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21. Segment Reporting (Continued)

The following table provides the source from which each of the Company's segments derive their net earned premiums:

Net Earned Premiums By Segment

			Three Months Ended March 31,

			2010			2009
			(in millions)
Financial guaranty direct:
	Public finance		$	95.1		$	85.5
	Structured finance			211.5			16.0

		Total		306.6			101.5
Financial guaranty reinsurance:
	Public finance			10.0			34.8
	Structured finance			8.4			11.4

		Total		18.4			46.2
Other				0.6			0.7

Subtotal				325.6			148.4
Consolidation of VIEs				(6.0	)		—

Total net earned premiums				319.6			148.4
Net credit derivative premiums received and receivable				53.7			29.5

	Total net earned premiums and credit derivative premiums received and receivable		$	373.3		$	177.9

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22. Subsidiary Information

The following tables present the condensed consolidated financial information for AGL, AGUS, of which AGC, AGMH and AGM are subsidiaries, and other subsidiaries of Assured Guaranty as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 and for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009.

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING BALANCE SHEET
AS OF MARCH 31, 2010
(in thousands)

				Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.

		Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Parent)		AGUS (Parent)			AGMH (Consolidated)			AGC and Other Subsidiaries		Consolidating Adjustments			AGUS (Consolidated)			AG Re and Other Subsidiaries		Consolidating Adjustments			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)
ASSETS
Total investment portfolio and cash		$	43,714	$	15,139		$	5,585,312		$	2,766,390	$	—		$	8,366,841		$	2,158,568	$	—		$	10,569,123
Investment in subsidiaries			3,570,119		2,845,357			—			—		(2,845,357	)		—			—		(3,570,119	)		—
Premiums receivable, net of ceding commissions payable			—		—			757,054			338,818		(1,181	)		1,094,691			568,932		(292,041	)		1,371,582
Ceded unearned premium reserve			—		—			1,573,176			430,713		—			2,003,889			449		(1,078,111	)		926,227
Deferred acquisition costs			—		(2	)		(88,574	)		45,571		—			(43,005	)		402,671		(115,642	)		244,024
Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid losses			—		—			17,497			54,604		—			72,101			803		(55,070	)		17,834
Credit derivative assets			—		—			213,562			302,568		(914	)		515,216			82,107		(60,273	)		537,050
Deferred tax asset, net			—		(287	)		921,366			180,067		—			1,101,146			7,287		23,626			1,132,059
Intercompany receivable			—		—			300,000			—		(300,000	)		—			—		—			—
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' assets			—		—			1,498,725			369,871		—			1,868,596			—		—			1,868,596
Other assets			15,241		4,603			377,116			351,813		(33,784	)		699,748			97,476		(90,506	)		721,959

	TOTAL ASSETS	$	3,629,074	$	2,864,810		$	11,155,234		$	4,840,415	$	(3,181,236	)	$	15,679,223		$	3,318,293	$	(5,238,136	)	$	17,388,454

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Unearned premium reserves		$	—	$	—		$	5,811,992		$	1,439,529	$	—		$	7,251,521		$	1,487,752	$	(1,018,331	)	$	7,720,942
Loss and loss adjustment expense reserve			—		—			100,647			201,102		—			301,749			141,873		(82,350	)		361,272
Long-term debt			—		517,650			401,843			—		—			919,493			—		—			919,493
Notes payable			—		—			142,403			—		—			142,403			—		—			142,403
Intercompany payable			—		—			—			300,000		(300,000	)		—			—		—			—
Credit derivative liabilities			—		213			657,355			921,184		(1,355	)		1,577,397			305,609		(61,045	)		1,821,961
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities			—		—			1,854,577			418,362		—			2,272,939			—		—			2,272,939
Other liabilities			10,039		(9,442	)		649,490			251,792		(34,508	)		857,332			24,551		(361,513	)		530,409

	TOTAL LIABILITIES		10,039		508,421			9,618,307			3,531,969		(335,863	)		13,322,834			1,959,785		(1,523,239	)		13,769,419

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY ATTRIBUTBLE TO ASSURED GUARANTY LTD.		3,619,035		2,356,389			1,536,927			1,308,446		(2,845,373	)		2,356,389			1,358,508		(3,714,897	)		3,619,035
Noncontrolling interest of financial guaranty variable interest entities			—		—			—			—		—			—			—		—			—

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY		3,619,035		2,356,389			1,536,927			1,308,446		(2,845,373	)		2,356,389			1,358,508		(3,714,897	)		3,619,035

	TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY	$	3,629,074	$	2,864,810		$	11,155,234		$	4,840,415	$	(3,181,236	)	$	15,679,223		$	3,318,293	$	(5,238,136	)	$	17,388,454

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22. Subsidiary Information (Continued)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING BALANCE SHEET
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2009
(in thousands)

				Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.

		Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Parent)		AGUS (Parent)			AGMH (Consolidated)			AGC and Other Subsidiaries		Consolidating Adjustments			AGUS (Consolidated)			AG Re and Other Subsidiaries		Consolidating Adjustments			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)
ASSETS
Total investment portfolio and cash		$	52,533	$	3,675		$	5,797,355		$	2,867,182	$	—		$	8,668,212		$	2,131,567	$	—		$	10,852,312
Investment in subsidiaries			3,457,144		2,851,994			—			—		(2,851,994	)		—			—		(3,457,144	)		—
Premiums receivable, net of ceding commissions payable			—		—			787,425			349,673		(1,181	)		1,135,917			446,245		(163,930	)		1,418,232
Ceded unearned premium reserve			—		—			1,508,643			435,268		—			1,943,911			514		(892,454	)		1,051,971
Deferred acquisition costs			—		(2	)		(26,972	)		45,162		—			18,188			342,013		(118,240	)		241,961
Reinsurance recoverable on unpaid losses			—		—			13,745			50,707		—			64,452			886		(51,216	)		14,122
Credit derivative assets			—		—			226,958			244,561		—			471,519			68,440		(47,428	)		492,531
Deferred tax asset, net			—		(366	)		879,243			242,007		—			1,120,884			9,661		27,660			1,158,205
Intercompany receivable			—		—			300,000			—		(300,000	)		—			—		—			—
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' assets			—		—			762,303			—		—			762,303			—		—			762,303
Other assets			22,600		1,306			377,276			203,001		(542	)		581,041			83,365		(85,207	)		601,799

	TOTAL ASSETS	$	3,532,277	$	2,856,607		$	10,625,976		$	4,437,561	$	(3,153,717	)	$	14,766,427		$	3,082,691	$	(4,787,959	)	$	16,593,436

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
Unearned premium reserves		$	—	$	—		$	6,287,552		$	1,451,576	$	—		$	7,739,128		$	1,301,472	$	(821,210	)	$	8,219,390
Loss and loss adjustment expense reserve			—		—			55,285			191,211		—			246,496			122,265		(79,291	)		289,470
Long-term debt			—		517,414			399,948			—		—			917,362			—		—			917,362
Notes payable			—		—			149,051			—		—			149,051			—		—			149,051
Intercompany payable			—		—			—			300,000		(300,000	)		—			—		—			—
Credit derivative liabilities			—		213			625,765			1,076,727		—			1,702,705			379,358		(47,429	)		2,034,634
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities			—		—			762,652			—		—			762,652			—		—			762,652
Other liabilities			11,769		(15,583	)		725,065			187,060		(1,723	)		894,819			25,384		(231,254	)		700,718

	TOTAL LIABILITIES		11,769		502,044			9,005,318			3,206,574		(301,723	)		12,412,213			1,828,479		(1,179,184	)		13,073,277

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY ATTRIBUTBLE TO ASSURED GUARANTY LTD.		3,520,508		2,354,563			1,621,007			1,230,987		(2,851,994	)		2,354,563			1,254,212		(3,608,775	)		3,520,508
Noncontrolling interest of financial guaranty variable interest entities			—		—			(349	)		—		—			(349	)		—		—			(349	)

	TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY		3,520,508		2,354,563			1,620,658			1,230,987		(2,851,994	)		2,354,214			1,254,212		(3,608,775	)		3,520,159

	TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY	$	3,532,277	$	2,856,607		$	10,625,976		$	4,437,561	$	(3,153,717	)	$	14,766,427		$	3,082,691	$	(4,787,959	)	$	16,593,436

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22. Subsidiary Information (Continued)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2010
(in thousands)

					Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.

			Assured Guaranty Ltd (Parent)		AGUS (Parent)			AGMH (Consolidated)			AGC and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments			AGUS (Consolidated)		AG Re and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)
REVENUES
Net earned premiums			$	—	$	—		$	249,952		$	29,490		$	—		$	279,442	$	34,510		$	5,608		$	319,560
Net investment income				11		1			47,929			19,566			(3,750	)		63,746		20,545			—			84,302
Net realized investment gains (losses)				—		—			5,330			2,841			—			8,171		1,242			—			9,413
Net change in fair value of credit derivatives:
	Realized gains and other settlements			—		—			27,745			(5,459	)		(1	)		22,285		4,417			1			26,703
	Net unrealized gains (losses)			—		—			(45,749	)		209,491			—			163,742		88,356			—			252,098

		Net change in fair value of credit derivatives		—		—			(18,004	)		204,032			(1	)		186,027		92,773			1			278,801
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries				332,542		247,509			—			—			(247,509	)		—		—			(332,542	)		—
Other income(1)				75		—			(25,282	)		26,613			—			1,331		(9,793	)		196			(8,191	)

	TOTAL REVENUES			332,628		247,510			259,925			282,542			(251,260	)		538,717		139,277			(326,737	)		683,885

EXPENSES
Loss and loss adjustment expenses				—		—			59,046			34,524			—			93,570		39,446			(2,515	)		130,501
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and other operating expenses				9,277		133			20,526			31,525			—			52,184		13,681			(2,611	)		72,531
Other(2)				1,376		9,816			14,684			20,989			(3,750	)		41,739		818			—			43,933

	TOTAL EXPENSES			10,653		9,949			94,256			87,038			(3,750	)		187,493		53,945			(5,126	)		246,965

INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES				321,975		237,561			165,669			195,504			(247,510	)		351,224		85,332			(321,611	)		436,920
Total provision (benefit) for income taxes				—		(3,478	)		48,269			65,395			(1	)		110,185		694			4,066			114,945

NET INCOME (LOSS)				321,975		241,039			117,400			130,109			(247,509	)		241,039		84,638			(325,677	)		321,975
Less: Noncontrolling interest of variable interest entities				—		—			—			—			—			—		—			—			—

NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO ASSURED GUARANTY LTD			$	321,975	$	241,039		$	117,400		$	130,109		$	(247,509	)	$	241,039	$	84,638		$	(325,677	)	$	321,975

(1): Includes fair value gain (loss) on CCS, financial guaranty VIEs' revenues and other income.
(2): Includes AGMH acquisition related expenses, interest expense and financial guaranty VIEs' expenses.

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22. Subsidiary Information (Continued)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2009
(in thousands)

			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Parent Company)		Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.			AG Re and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)

REVENUES
Net earned premiums			$	—	$	67,725		$	80,721		$	—		$	148,446
Net investment income				1		19,313			24,367			(80	)		43,601
Net realized investment gains (losses)				—		238			(17,348	)		—			(17,110	)
Net change in fair value of credit derivatives:
	Realized gains and other settlements			—		24,363			(3,763	)		(21	)		20,579
	Net unrealized gains (losses)			—		(23,147	)		50,108			21			26,982

		Net change in fair value of credit derivatives		—		1,216			46,345			—			47,561
Equity in earnings of subsidiaries				96,726		—			—			(96,726	)		—
Other income(1)				—		20,809			—			(241	)		20,568

	TOTAL REVENUES			96,727		109,301			134,085			(97,047	)		243,066

EXPENSES
Loss and loss adjustment expenses				—		21,382			58,372			—			79,754
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs and other operating expenses				6,617		17,638			28,518			—			52,773
Other(2)				4,621		5,821			—			—			10,442

	TOTAL EXPENSES			11,238		44,841			86,890			—			142,969

INCOME (LOSS) BEFORE INCOME TAXES				85,489		64,460			47,195			(97,047	)		100,097
Total provision (benefit) for income taxes				—		18,781			(4,173	)		—			14,608

NET INCOME (LOSS)				85,489		45,679			51,368			(97,047	)		85,489
Less: Noncontrolling interest of variable interest entities				—		—			—			—			—

NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO ASSURED GUARANTY LTD.			$	85,489	$	45,679		$	51,368		$	(97,047	)	$	85,489

(1): Includes fair value gain (loss) on CCS and other income.
(2): Includes AGMH acquisition-related expenses and interest expense.

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22. Subsidiary Information (Continued)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2010
(in thousands)

					Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.

		Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Parent)			AGUS (Parent)			AGMH (Consolidated)			AGC and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments			(Consolidated)			AG Re and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments		Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)
Dividends received from subsidiaries		$	—		$	15,000		$	—		$	—		$	(15,000	)	$	—		$	—		$	—	$	—
Other operating activities			2,069			(3,535	)		(163,482	)		(78,755	)		—			(245,772	)		7,113			—		(236,590	)

Net cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities			2,069			11,465			(163,482	)		(78,755	)		(15,000	)		(245,772	)		7,113			—		(236,590	)

Cash flows from investing activities
Fixed maturity securities:
	Purchases		—			—			(130,360	)		(194,221	)		4,299			(320,282	)		(97,750	)		—		(418,032	)
	Sales		—			—			111,988			54,067			(4,299	)		161,756			26,044			—		187,800
	Maturities		—			—			151,033			38,985			—			190,018			75,250			—		265,268
Purchases of short-term investments, net			8,819			(11,349	)		29,139			226,103			—			243,893			(6,711	)		—		246,001
Proceeds from financial guaranty variable entities assets			—			—			56,037			4,650			—			60,687			—			—		60,687
Other			—			—			4,867			—			—			4,867			—			—		4,867

Net cash flows used in investing activities			8,819			(11,349	)		222,704			129,584			—			340,939			(3,167	)		—		346,591

Cash flows from financing activities
Dividends paid			(8,305	)		—			—			(15,000	)		15,000			—			—			—		(8,305	)
Share activity under option and incentive plans			(2,583	)		—			—			—			—			—			—			—		(2,583	)
Paydown of financial guaranty variable entities liabilities			—			—			(41,507	)		(4,650	)		—			(46,157	)		—			—		(46,157	)
Payment of notes payable			—			—			(6,363	)		—			—			(6,363	)		—			—		(6,363	)

Net cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities			(10,888	)		—			(47,870	)		(19,650	)		15,000			(52,520	)		—			—		(63,408	)
Effect of exchange rate changes			—			—			(440	)		196			—			(244	)		(10	)		—		(254	)

(Decrease) increase in cash			—			116			10,912			31,375			—			42,403			3,936			—		46,339
Cash at beginning of year			—			76			26,144			6,243			—			32,463			11,670			—		44,133

Cash at end of period		$	—		$	192		$	37,056		$	37,618		$	—		$	74,866		$	15,606		$	—	$	90,472

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March 31, 2010

22. Subsidiary Information (Continued)

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATING STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2009
(in thousands)

		Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Parent Company)			Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc.			AG Re and Other Subsidiaries			Consolidating Adjustments			Assured Guaranty Ltd. (Consolidated)

Dividends received from subsidiaries		$	16,576		$	241		$	—		$	(16,817	)	$	—
Other operating activities			(3,364	)		123,162			47,219			—			167,017

Net cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities			13,212			123,403			47,219			(16,817	)		167,017

Cash flows from investing activities
Fixed maturity securities:
	Purchases		—			(140,300	)		(148,919	)		—			(289,219	)
	Sales		—			135,380			138,880			—			274,260
	Maturities		—			—			3,500			—			3,500
Sales (purchases) of short-term investments, net			(4,231	)		(111,330	)		(24,061	)		—			(139,622	)

Net cash flows used in investing activities			(4,231	)		(116,250	)		(30,600	)		—			(151,081	)

Cash flows from financing activities
Dividends paid			(4,363	)		—			(16,576	)		16,817			(4,122	)
Repurchases of common stock			(3,676	)		—			—			—			(3,676	)
Share activity under option and incentive plans			(942	)		—			—			—			(942	)

Net cash flows provided by (used in) financing activities			(8,981	)		—			(16,576	)		16,817			(8,740	)
Effect of exchange rate changes			—			(142	)		(31	)		—			(173	)

Increase (decrease) in cash			—			7,011			12			—			7,023
Cash at beginning of year			—			10,226			2,079			—			12,305

Cash at end of year		$	—		$	17,237		$	2,091		$	—		$	19,328

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23. Consolidation of VIEs

The Company has exposure to VIEs through the issuance of financial guaranty insurance contracts that typically ensure for the timely payment of principal and interest to the holders of VIE debt. As part of the terms of its insurance contracts, at the outset of a contract the Company obtains certain protective rights over the control of a VIE based upon the occurrence of certain trigger events, such as deal performance or servicer or collateral manager financial health. At deal inception, the Company typically is not deemed to be have control of a VIE, however, once a trigger event occurs the Company's control of the VIE typically increases.

Under accounting rules previously in effect, the Company determined whether it is the primary beneficiary (i.e., the variable interest holder required to consolidate a VIE) of a VIE by first performing a qualitative analysis of the VIE that includes, among other factors, its capital structure, contractual terms, which variable interests create or absorb variability, related party relationships and the design of the VIE. The Company performed a quantitative analysis when qualitative analysis was not conclusive.

The new accounting guidance requires the Company to perform an analysis to determine whether its variable interests give it a controlling financial interest in a VIE. This analysis identifies the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity as the enterprise that has both 1) the power to direct the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance; and 2) the obligation to absorb losses of the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity. Additionally, this new accounting guidance requires an ongoing reassessment of whether the Company is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. The adoption of this new accounting guidance resulted in no greater rights or benefits to the Company.

Pursuant to the new accounting guidance, the Company evaluated its power to direct the significant activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of VIEs that have debt obligations insured by the Company and, accordingly, where the Company is obligated to absorb VIE losses that could potentially be significant to the VIE. The Company determined that it is the primary beneficiary of 21 VIEs based on the assessment of its control rights over servicer or collateral manager replacement, given that servicing/managing collateral were deemed to be the VIEs' most significant activities. The Company is not primarily liable for the debt obligations issued by the VIEs and would only be required to make payments on these debt obligations in the event that the issuer of such debt obligations defaults on any principal or interest due. The Company's creditors do not have any rights with regard to the assets of the VIEs.

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March 31, 2010

23. Consolidation of VIEs (Continued)

The table below shows the carrying value of the consolidated VIE assets and liabilities in the Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements, segregated by the types of assets held by VIEs that collateralize their respective debt obligations:

Consolidated VIEs

		As of March 31, 2010				As of December 31, 2009

		Assets		Liabilities		Assets		Liabilities
		(in thousands)
HELOCs		$	293,345	$	530,684	$	—	$	—
First liens			337,915		448,370		—		—
Alt-A Second liens			83,176		131,667		—		—
Automobile loans			668,578		668,578		—		—
Manufactured housing loans			82,650		90,708		—		—
Life insurance			286,695		286,695		—		—
Credit card loans			116,237		116,237		233,419		233,129
Health care receivables			—		—		211,808		212,484
Consumer loans			—		—		199,189		199,178
Gas pipeline tariffs			—		—		117,887		117,861

	Total	$	1,868,596	$	2,272,939	$	762,303	$	762,652

The table below shows the revenues and expenses of the consolidated VIEs:

			Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

			(in thousands)
Revenues:
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' revenues:
	Interest income		$	60,878
	Net realized and unrealized gains (losses) on assets			(56,690	)

		Financial guaranty variable interest entities' revenues	$	4,188

Expenses:
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' expenses:
	Interest expense		$	24,053
	Net realized and unrealized (gains) losses on liabilities with recourse			(25,654	)
	Net realized and unrealized (gains) losses on liabilities without recourse			(5,754	)
	Other expenses			22,133

		Financial guaranty variable interest entities' expenses	$	14,778

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March 31, 2010

23. Consolidation of VIEs (Continued)

The financial reports of the consolidated VIEs are prepared by outside parties and are not available within the time constraints that the Company requires to ensure the financial accuracy of the operating results. As such, the financial results of the 21 VIEs are consolidated on a one quarter lag.

The new accounting guidance mandates the accounting changes prescribed by the statement to be recognized by the Company as a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings as of January 1, 2010. The cumulative effect of adopting the new accounting guidance was a $218.1 million after-tax decrease to the opening retained earnings balance due to the consolidation of 21 VIEs at fair value. The impact of adopting the new accounting guidance on the Company's balance sheet was as follows:

	As of December 31, 2009			Transition Adjustment			As of January 1, 2010

	(in thousands)
ASSETS:
Premiums receivable, net of ceding commissions payable	$	1,418,232		$	(3,469	)	$	1,414,763
Deferred tax asset, net		1,158,205			117,462			1,275,667
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' assets		762,303			1,162,983			1,925,286
Total assets		16,593,436			1,276,976			17,870,412
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY:
Unearned premium reserves		8,219,390			(79,402	)		8,139,988
Loss and loss adjustment expense reserve		289,470			(3	)		289,467
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities with recourse		762,652			1,348,200			2,110,852
Financial guaranty variable interest entities' liabilities without recourse		—			225,976			225,976
Total liabilities		13,073,277			1,494,771			14,568,048
Retained earnings		789,869			(218,144	)		571,725
Total shareholders' equity attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		3,520,508			(218,144	)		3,302,364
Noncontrolling interest of financial guaranty variable interest entities		(349	)		349			—
Total shareholders' equity		3,520,159			(217,795	)		3,302,364
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity		16,593,436			1,276,976			17,870,412

At December 31, 2009, the Company consolidated four VIEs that had debt obligations insured by the Company. Under the new accounting guidance, consolidation was no longer required and, accordingly, the four VIEs were deconsolidated at fair value, which approximated $791.9 million in VIE assets and $788.7 million in VIE liabilities at the date of adoption. The impact of this deconsolidation is included in the above "Transition Adjustment" amounts.

Non-Consolidated VIEs

To date, the results of qualitative and quantitative analyses have indicated that the Company does not have a majority of the variability in any other VIEs and, as a result, are not consolidated in the Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements. The Company's exposure provided through its financial guaranties with respect to debt obligations of non-consolidated SPEs is included within net par outstanding in Note 5.

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Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

Forward-Looking Statements

This Form 10-Q contains information that includes or is based upon forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements give the expectations or forecasts of future events of Assured Guaranty Ltd. ("AGL" and, together with its subsidiaries, "Assured Guaranty" or the "Company"). These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts and relate to future operating or financial performance.

Any or all of Assured Guaranty's forward-looking statements herein are based on current expectations and the current economic environment and may turn out to be wrong. Assured Guaranty's actual results may vary materially. Among factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are:

•: rating agency action, including a ratings downgrade at any time of AGL or any of its subsidiaries and/or of transactions that AGL's subsidiaries have insured, both of which have occurred in the past;
•: developments in the world's financial and capital markets that adversely affect issuers' payment rates, the Company's loss experience, its ability to cede exposure to reinsurers, its access to capital, its unrealized (losses) gains on derivative financial instruments or its investment returns;
•: changes in the world's credit markets, segments thereof or general economic conditions;
•: more severe or frequent losses implicating the adequacy of the Company's loss reserve;
•: the impact of market volatility on the mark-to-market of the Company's contracts written in credit default swap form;
•: reduction in the amount of reinsurance portfolio opportunities available to the Company;
•: decreased demand or increased competition;
•: changes in applicable accounting policies or practices;
•: changes in applicable laws or regulations, including insurance and tax laws;
•: other governmental actions;
•: difficulties with the execution of the Company's business strategy;
•: contract cancellations;
•: the Company's dependence on customers;
•: loss of key personnel;
•: adverse technological developments;
•: the effects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
•: natural or man-made catastrophes;
•: other risks and uncertainties that have not been identified at this time;
•: management's response to these factors; and
•: other risk factors identified in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").

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The foregoing review of important factors should not be construed as exhaustive, and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this Form 10-Q. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or review any forward looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by law. Investors are advised, however, to consult any further disclosures the Company makes on related subjects in the Company's periodic reports filed with the SEC.

If one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if the Company's underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may vary materially from what the Company projected. Any forward looking statements in this Form 10-Q reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to its operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity.

For these statements, the Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act").

Website Information

The Company routinely posts important information for investors on its website (www.assuredguaranty.com), under the "Investor Information" tab. The Company uses this website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under SEC Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure). Accordingly, investors should monitor the Investor Information portion of the Company's website, in addition to following the Company's press releases, SEC filings, public conference calls, presentations and webcasts. The information contained on, or that may be accessed through, the Company's website is not incorporated by reference into, and is not a part of, this report.

Executive Summary

Background

AGL is a Bermuda-based holding company that provides, through its operating subsidiaries, credit protection products to the public finance, infrastructure and structured finance markets in the U.S. as well as internationally. The Company applies its credit underwriting expertise, risk management skills and capital markets experience to develop insurance, reinsurance and credit derivative products. The Company's primary product is a guaranty of principal and interest payments on debt securities. These securities include municipal finance obligations issued by U.S. state or municipal governmental authorities, utility districts or facilities; notes or bonds issued for international infrastructure projects; and asset-backed securities ("ABS") issued by special purpose entities ("SPEs"). The Company markets its credit protection products directly to issuers and underwriters of public finance, infrastructure and structured finance securities as well as to investors in such debt obligations. The Company guarantees debt obligations issued in many countries, although its principal focus is on the U.S. and Europe.

On July 1, 2009 (the "Acquisition Date"), the Company acquired Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. (renamed Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc., ("AGMH")), and AGMH's subsidiaries, including Financial Security Assurance Inc. (renamed Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp., ("AGM")), from Dexia Holdings, Inc. ("Dexia Holdings"). The acquired companies are collectively referred to as the "Acquired Companies". The purchase price paid by the Company was $546 million in cash and 22.3 million common shares of AGL at $12.38 per share. A portion of the purchase price was financed through a public offering of 44,275,000 AGL common shares (raising gross proceeds of $487.0 million) and 3,450,000 equity units (raising gross proceeds of $172.5 million).

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The AGMH Acquisition did not include the acquisition of AGMH's former financial products business, which was comprised of its guaranteed investment contracts ("GICs") business, its medium term notes ("MTNs") business and the equity payment agreements associated with AGMH's leveraged lease business (the "Financial Products Business"). The AGMH subsidiaries that conducted AGMH's former Financial Products Business (the "Financial Products Companies") were transferred to Dexia Holdings prior to completion of the AGMH Acquisition. In addition, as further described under "—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Liquidity Arrangements with respect to AGMH's former Financial Products Business," the Company has entered into various agreements with Dexia in order to transfer to Dexia the credit and liquidity risks associated with AGMH's former Financial Products Business.

Since 2008, the Company has been the leading provider of financial guaranty credit protection products. This achievement resulted from a combination of factors, including AGL's acquisition of AGMH in 2009, the Company's ability to achieve and maintain high investment-grade financial strength ratings, and the significant financial distress faced by many of the Company's competitors since 2007, which has impaired their ability to underwrite new business.

Since July 1, 2009, when the AGMH Acquisition closed, the Company has conducted its financial guaranty business on a direct basis from two distinct platforms. AGM, focuses exclusively on the U.S. public finance and global infrastructure business. AGM ceased underwriting structured finance business in September 2008 and has decided not to currently underwrite any new structured finance business in the future. The second company, Assured Guaranty Corp. ("AGC"), will consider underwriting global structured finance transactions as well as U.S. public finance and global infrastructure obligations.

Business Environment and Market Trends

The global financial crisis that began in 2007 and created one of the worst recessions the U.S. has experienced since 1980 has caused a material change in the financial guaranty industry with respect to financial strength, market opportunities and competition. The financial guaranty industry, along with many other financial institutions, has experienced significant levels of credit and market losses on U.S. residential mortgage backed securities ("RMBS") securities, particularly for those institutions that invested in or insured collateralized debt obligations ("CDOs") backed by ABS containing significant residential mortgage collateral ("CDOs of ABS"). These losses and the ensuing erosion of liquidity in global capital markets which began in 2007 and continued through 2009 has resulted in a significantly different business environment and market opportunity for the Company.

In particular, since year-end 2007, every monoline guarantor rated triple-A when the crisis began has been downgraded by at least two of the three major credit rating agencies due to increased actual and forecasted credit losses and the individual company's ability or inability to raise capital in order to maintain their ratings. Furthermore, most of the Company's competitors have ceased to write new business, including former market leaders MBIA Insurance Corporation ("MBIA"), Ambac Assurance Corporation ("Ambac") and Financial Guaranty Insurance Company ("FGIC"), as well as smaller companies such as ACA Financial Guaranty Corporation ("ACA"), Syncora Guarantee Inc. ("Syncora"), CIFG Assurance North America Inc. ("CIFG"), RAM Reinsurance Co. Ltd. ("RAM Re") and BluePoint Re Limited. Several companies, have suffered such significant financial losses that their respective insurance regulators have intervened, including by issuing orders prohibiting the companies from conducting normal operations, including, in many instances, making claims payments.

Unlike their former competitors, only AGC, AGM and Assured Guaranty Re Ltd. ("AG Re") have remained active providers of financial guaranty insurance and reinsurance through the past three years, largely because they have retained sufficiently high financial strength ratings. Their relative ratings strength is largely due to the decision by both AGL and AGM, to decline to insure CDOs of ABS. However, AGL and its subsidiaries have been downgraded by two of the credit rating agencies, principally due to the increased capital requirements by the rating agencies resulting from their concern

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about the risk of significant adverse loss development on U.S. RMBS exposures insured by the Company. AGL raised additional capital in order to address these capital requirements by the rating agencies, AGL from external investors and AGM from its former parent. The most recent capital raise by AGL was in December 2009 for net proceeds of approximately $574 million. See "—Financial Strength Ratings" for the current ratings of the Company's insurance subsidiaries.

The Company's public finance business benefits in part due to the lack of financially strong competitors. The competitive environment for the financial guaranty industry has changed substantially over the last two years, principally due to the downgrades of virtually all other competing financial guarantors and the relatively limited activity of new financial guaranty companies. Since the credit crisis, only one new financial guarantor, Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation, has underwritten any financial guaranty contracts on new issue municipal bonds, but only a limited amount. Another potential start-up financial guarantor, Municipal and Infrastructure Assurance Corporation, was formed in October 2008 but has not written any business. MBIA launched a new municipal finance-only company, National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation; however, it has yet to write any significant new business, possibly because of its comparatively low financial strength ratings and pending litigation surrounding its organization. In addition, Ambac has terminated its effort to launch a municipal-only company. Other potential competitors, such as a federally chartered bond insurer or one funded by states and pension funds, remain in the discussion stage.

Although U.S. economic statistics show some indication that the recession may be over and that housing prices are stabilizing, the financial guaranty market continues to face significant economic uncertainty with respect to credit performance. Unemployment remains high and may take years to return to pre-recession levels, which may adversely affect loss experience on RMBS as well as Assured Guaranty's willingness to consider underwriting new RMBS transactions.

In addition, the sustained economic recession has also affected the credit performance of other markets, including corporate credits included in many of the pooled corporate obligations insured by the Company and, more specifically, of trust preferred securities ("TruPS") that include subordinated capital and notes issued by banks, mortgage real estate investment trusts and insurance companies. Municipal credits have also experienced increased budgetary stress, as the amount of sales, income and real estate tax-related revenues collected by most states and municipalities have declined over the last two years and may decline in the future as well. The Company continues to monitor all of its insured exposures for credit deterioration and its expected losses will change for a variety of factors that depend on, among other items: actual or projected performance; revised assumptions or modeling techniques used in setting loss reserves; economic, fiscal and monetary conditions; and other factors. Additionally, regulations, legislation or actions by state and federal regulatory agencies or non-U.S. governments could result in changes that limit the Company's business opportunities.

The current economic environment has also had a significant impact on the demand in both the global structured finance and international infrastructure finance markets for financial guaranties, and it is uncertain when or if demand for financial guaranties will return. The Company has witnessed limited new issuance activity in many markets in which the Company was previously active. As a result, near-term opportunities for financial guaranties are largely in secondary markets. In addition, the Company currently has decided not to underwrite structured finance transactions at AGM or to underwrite any U.S. RMBS transactions for the foreseeable future. These decisions further reduce the amount of new business available to the Company in the current environment.

The Company expects that global structured finance issuance will increase in the future as the global economy recovers. Much asset-based lending, such as for auto loans and leases and equipment financings, has been financed by banks rather than in the capital markets due to the limited demand for these types of structured financings by investors in the face of the credit crisis. As liquidity and investor demand increases for structured financings, the Company expects to find more opportunities to

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guaranty transactions that meet the Company's current credit underwriting and risk management guidelines. Management believes market participants value the Company's underwriting skills and surveillance functions as well as the value of its financial guaranties.

The Company expects that its international infrastructure opportunities will increase as the global economic environment stabilizes and issuers return to the public markets for financings and that institutional investors will utilize financial guaranties again. Financial guaranties had been an essential component of capital markets financings for international infrastructure projects, but these financings have been largely financed with relatively short-term bank loans since the onset of the credit crisis.

Unlike the structured finance and international infrastructure markets, however, new issue activity has remained strong in the U.S. public finance market. According to The Bond Buyer, new issue activity totaled $409.7 billion in 2009, up 5.2% from $389.6 billion in 2008. During 2009, the Company insured 8.5% of all new U.S. municipal issuance based on par issued. According to the SDC Thomson municipal database, during the three months ended March 31, 2010 ("First Quarter 2010"), the new issue municipal bond activity has remained robust, with new issuance rising 21% to $103.4 billion, including $33.7 billion of taxable municipal bonds, almost entirely associated with the federal government's Build America Bonds ("BABs") program, which launched in April 2009. AGM and AGC insured 6.3% of all new U.S. municipal issuance based on par issued, or 8.8% of all tax-exempt municipal issuance during First Quarter 2010, compared to 11.1% in the three months ended March 31, 2009 ("First Quarter 2009"). Management attributes the decline in First Quarter 2010 production to both limited demand for insurance in the BABs market to date as well as the November 2009 downgrade of AGC's financial strength ratings by Moody's.

Management believes that the U.S. public finance market will continue to need high-quality bond insurance, given the structure of the municipal market and its reliance, directly and indirectly, on individual rather than institutional investors. Few individual or even institutional investors have the analytic resources to cover all the varied municipal credits in the market, which are estimated to number more than 30,000. By guaranteeing principal and interest, the Company effectively consolidates the tasks of credit selection, analysis, structuring, monitoring and, if necessary, remediation of credit issues that may arise. Management believes this allows retail investors to participate more widely, institutional investors to operate more efficiently and smaller, less well-known issuers to gain market access. Management believes these features of financial guaranty insurance are an important part of the Company's value proposition, in addition to the Company's ability to reduce interest costs by enhancing each issue's credit rating.

Despite the lack of active financial guarantor competitors, the Company faces competition for credit enhancement on municipal bonds from other types of competition and changes in market factors. For instance, letters of credit provided by banks has historically competed with bond insurance for credit enhancement of municipal bonds. The introduction of the BABs program has also affected recent new municipal business production for AGM and AGC, which declined compared to First Quarter 2009. Approximately $90.9 billion of new issue municipal bonds were sold through March 31, 2010, under the BABs program since its introduction, but only $2.1 billion or 2.3% were insured by AGM or AGC. The BABs program, as currently structured, does not encourage issuers to employ bond insurance since the inherent cost savings for using bond insurance is diminished by a reduction in the BABs subsidy. The Company is seeking to eliminate this disincentive. The Company believes that the taxable buyers of the BABs bonds are also generally less likely to purchase insured bonds than the traditional municipal bond investors due to the higher average rating and size of bonds issued under the BABs programs. However, guaranties may be used more frequently in the BABs program as it expands to include smaller and lower rated issuers in 2010. For instance, while AGC and AGM's utilization by BABs issuers on a par basis has been low to date, its utilization based on the number of transactions has been 10.1%, or 113 out of a total of 1,123 transactions.

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Financial Performance

Financial Performance

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010			2009
	(dollars in millions, except per share amounts)
Net earned premiums	$	319.6		$	148.4
Net investment income		84.3			43.6
Net unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives		252.1			27.0
Loss and loss adjustment expenses		(130.5	)		(79.8	)
Other operating expenses		(64.4	)		(29.4	)
Net income attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		322.0			85.5
Diluted EPS		1.69			0.93

The Company's reported net income includes unrealized gains on credit derivatives of $252.1 million in First Quarter 2010 and $27.0 million in First Quarter 2009 and unrealized gains (losses) on committed capital securities ("CCS"), which cause volatility in reported net income due to changes in interest rates, credit spreads and other market factors. In the First Quarter 2010, the Company noted tightening of general market spreads and AGM's credit spreads, while AGC's slightly widened. The unrealized gains on credit derivatives take into account the Company's estimates of expected credit impairment as well, which is discussed in the non-GAAP measure, "operating income," below. Realized gains and other settlements on credit derivatives includes premiums received or receivable on credit derivatives, which are up significantly from First Quarter 2009 due to the AGMH Acquisition, but are generally declining from quarter to quarter due to the runoff of AGM's structured finance portfolio and low new issue volume in AGC in this market. Premiums earned and net investment income have increased due primarily to the AGMH Acquisition. These revenue increases were, in part, offset by higher losses generated primarily from the insured U.S. RMBS portfolio. As of March 31, 2010, shareholders equity increased to $3.6 billion compared with $3.5 billion due to net income of $322.0 million offset in part by the cumulative effect of a change in accounting for variable interest entities ("VIEs") of $218.1 million.

Key Measures

To more accurately reflect the key measures management analyzes in evaluating the Company's operations and progress towards long-term goals, the Company discusses both measures promulgated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and measures not promulgated in accordance with GAAP ("non-GAAP measures"). Although the measures identified as non-GAAP should not be considered substitutes for GAAP measures, management considers them key performance indicators and employs them as well as other factors in determining compensation. Non-GAAP measures, therefore, provide investors with important information about the key measures management utilizes in measuring its business. The three primary non-GAAP measures analyzed by the Company's senior management are: operating income, adjusted book value ("ABV") and present value of new business production ("PVP").

Operating income

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the intent or the ability to realize such gains or losses. Operating income is also adjusted for realized gains or losses on its investment portfolio, goodwill and settlement of pre-existing relationship resulting from the AGMH Acquisition. See "—Non-GAAP Measures."

The comparability of operating income between years is affected by the AGMH Acquisition on July 1, 2009. In First Quarter 2010, operating income benefited from the addition of the premium earnings stream of the AGMH book of business. Although the AGMH book of business has embedded expected losses, such losses will not emerge in income as loss expense until they exceed the deferred premium revenue.

Reconciliation of Net Income Attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd. to Operating Income

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
Net income attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		$	322.0		$	85.5
Less after-tax adjustments:
	Realized gains (losses) on investments		6.7			(17.1	)
	Non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains on credit derivatives		230.8			26.4
	Fair value gains (losses) on committed capital securities		(0.8	)		12.8
	Non-economic fair value adjustments and net interest margin of consolidated VIEs		(4.3	)		—

Operating income		$	89.6		$	63.4

Adjusted book value

Management also uses ABV to measure the intrinsic value of the Company, excluding franchise value. One of the key measures used in determining the amount of certain long term compensation to management and employees and used by rating agencies and investors to assess the value of the Company is growth in ABV (as defined). Similar to operating income, ABV adjusts shareholders' equity to exclude the effects of certain fair value adjustments deemed to represent dislocations in market values for credit derivatives and CCS which management does not have the intent and/or ability to trade. Additional adjustments are made for unrealized gains and losses on the investment portfolio recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income ("OCI"), deferred acquisition cost ("DAC") and for the addition of estimated future installment revenues on credit derivatives not recorded on the consolidated balance sheets. See "—Non-GAAP Measures."

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Reconciliation of Adjusted Book Value to Shareholders' Equity Attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.

			As of March 31, 2010			As of December 31, 2009

			(dollars in millions, except share and per share amounts)
Adjusted book value reconciliation:
	Book value attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		$	3,619.0		$	3,520.5
	Less after-tax adjustments:
		Non-economic fair value adjustments of consolidated variable interest entities		(222.4	)		—
		Non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains (losses) on credit derivatives		(536.1	)		(767.6	)
		Fair value gains (losses) on committed capital securities		5.4			6.2
		Unrealized gain (loss) on investment portfolio excluding foreign exchange effect		127.6			139.7

	Operating shareholders' equity			4,244.5			4,142.2
	After-tax adjustments:
		Less: DAC		258.8			235.3
		Plus: Net present value of estimated net future credit derivative revenue		499.6			520.0
		Plus: Net unearned premium reserve on financial guaranty contracts in excess of expected loss to be expensed		4,362.6			4,486.8

Adjusted book value			$	8,847.9		$	8,913.7

Adjusted book value per share reconciliation:
	Book value attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.		$	19.63		$	19.12
	Less after-tax adjustments:
		Non-economic fair value adjustments of consolidated variable interest entities		(1.21	)		—
		Non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains (losses) on credit derivatives		(2.91	)		(4.17	)
		Fair value gains (losses) on committed capital securities		0.03			0.03
		Unrealized gain (loss) on investment portfolio excluding foreign exchange effect		0.69			0.76

	Operating shareholders' equity per share			23.02			22.49
		Less: DAC		1.40			1.28
		Plus: Net present value of estimated net future credit derivative revenue		2.71			2.82
		Plus: Net unearned premium reserve on financial guaranty contracts in excess of expected loss to be expensed		23.67			24.36

Adjusted book value			$	48.00		$	48.40

Shares outstanding				184,345,013			184,162,896

New Business Production

The tables below present the PVP and par amount written in the period. The gross PVP represents the present value of estimated future earnings on new financial guaranty insurance and credit derivative contracts written in the period, before consideration of cessions to reinsurers. See "—Non-GAAP Measures."

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Present Value of New Business Production

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in millions)
Public finance—U.S.		$	74.3	$	217.5
Public finance—non-U.S.			—		1.8
Structured finance—U.S.			4.5		2.4
Structured finance—non-U.S.			—		—

	Total	$	78.8	$	221.7

Financial Guaranty Gross Par Written

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in millions)
Public finance—U.S.		$	6,188	$	21,629
Public finance—non-U.S.			—		555
Structured finance—U.S.			1,000		92
Structured finance—non-U.S.			—		—

	Total	$	7,188	$	22,276

For the three months ended March 31, 2010, all par written was in the direct segment and was primarily U.S. public finance business. The reinsurance segment comprised 62.5% of the total gross par written for the three months ended March 31, 2009. In the financial guaranty reinsurance segment, the Company focused on portfolio acquisitions during 2009. In January 2009, AGC finalized an agreement with CIFG to assume a diversified portfolio of financial guaranty contracts totaling approximately $13.3 billion of net par outstanding. AGC received $75.6 million, which included $85.7 million of upfront premiums net of ceding commissions and approximately $12.2 million of future installments related to this transaction. The Company wrote no new non-affiliated quota share reinsurance during First Quarter 2009 and limited facultative reinsurance.

Reconciliation of PVP to Gross Written Premium

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in millions)
Total PVP		$	78.8	$	221.7
	Less: PVP of credit derivatives		—		2.4

PVP of financial guaranty insurance			78.8		219.3
	Less: Financial guaranty installment premium PVP		4.5		11.6

Total: Financial guaranty upfront gross written premiums ("GWP")			74.3		207.7
	Plus: Financial guaranty installment adjustment		17.8		27.1

Total GWP		$	92.1	$	234.8

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Financial Strength Ratings

•: AGC
•: Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd. ("AGUK")
•: AGM
•: Assured Guaranty (Europe) Ltd. (formerly Financial Security Assurance (U.K.) Limited, "AGE")
•: FSA Insurance Company ("FSAIC")
•: Financial Security Assurance International Ltd. ("FSA International").

AG Re and its subsidiaries Assured Guaranty Re Overseas Ltd. ("AGRO") and Assured Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company ("AGMIC") were each rated AA (stable) by S&P and A1 (negative outlook) by Moody's. AAA (Extremely Strong) rating is the highest ranking and AA (Very Strong) is the third highest ranking of the 22 ratings categories used by S&P. Aa3 (Excellent) is the fourth highest ranking and A1 (Good) is the fifth highest ranking of 21 ratings categories used by Moody's.

Major securities rating agencies generally assign ratings to obligations insured by AGC or AGM on the basis of the financial strength ratings assigned to the applicable insurer. Investors frequently rely on rating agency ratings because ratings influence the trading value of securities and form the basis for many institutions' investment guidelines. Therefore, the Company manages its business with the goal of achieving high financial strength ratings, preferably the highest that an agency will assign to any guarantor. However, the models used by rating agencies differ, presenting conflicting goals that sometimes make it inefficient or impractical to reach the highest rating level. The models are not fully transparent, contain subjective data (such as assumptions about future market demand for the Company's products) and change frequently.

Historically, an insurance financial strength rating was an opinion with respect to an insurer's ability to pay under its insurance policies and contracts in accordance with their terms. The opinion is not specific to any particular policy or contract. Insurance financial strength ratings do not refer to an insurer's ability to meet non-insurance obligations and are not a recommendation to purchase any policy or contract issued by an insurer or to buy, hold, or sell any security insured by an insurer. More recently, the ratings also reflect qualitative factors, such as the rating agencies' opinion of an insurer's business strategy and franchise value, the anticipated future demand for its product, the composition of its portfolio, and its capital adequacy, profitability and financial flexibility.

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toward the protection of investors in AGL's common shares. The rating criteria used by the rating agencies in establishing these ratings include consideration of the sufficiency of capital resources to meet projected growth (as well as access to such additional capital as may be necessary to continue to meet applicable capital adequacy standards), a company's overall financial strength, and demonstrated management expertise in financial guaranty and traditional reinsurance, credit analysis, systems development, marketing, capital markets and investment operations. Obligations insured by AGC and AGM generally are rated AAA by S&P and Aa3 by Moody's by virtue of such insurance. These ratings reflect only the views of the respective rating agencies and are subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.

The ratings of AGRO, AGMIC, AG UK and AGE are dependent upon support arrangements such as reinsurance and keepwell agreements. AG Re provides support to its subsidiary AGRO. AGRO provides support to its subsidiary AGMIC. AGC provides support to its subsidiary AGUK. AGM provides support to its subsidiary AGE. Pursuant to the terms of these agreements, each of AG Re, AGRO, AGC and AGM agrees to assume exposure from their respective subsidiaries and to provide funds to such subsidiaries sufficient for them to meet their obligations.

On December 18, 2009, Moody's concluded the ratings review of AGC and AG Re that it had initiated on November 12, 2009 (when it downgraded the insurance financial strength ratings of AGC and AG UK from Aa2 to Aa3 and of AG Re, AGRO and AGMIC from Aa3 to A1, and placed all such ratings on review for possible downgrade) by confirming the Aa3 insurance financial strength rating of AGC and AG UK, and the A1 insurance financial strength rating of AG Re, AGRO and AGMIC. At the same time, Moody's affirmed the Aa3 insurance financial strength rating of AGM. Moody's stated that it believed the Company's capital support transactions, including AGL's issuance of common shares in December 2009 that resulted in net proceeds of approximately $573.8 million, $500.0 million of which was downstreamed to AGC, increased AGC's capital to a level consistent with Moody's expectations for a Aa3 rating, while leaving its affiliates with capital structures that Moody's believes is appropriate for their own ratings. However, Moody's ratings outlook for each such rating is negative because Moody's believes there is meaningful remaining uncertainty about the Company's ultimate credit losses and the demand for the Company's financial guaranty insurance and its competitive position once the municipal finance market normalizes. There can be no assurance that Moody's will not take further action on the Company's ratings.

On October 12, 2009, Fitch downgraded the debt and insurer financial strength ratings of several of the Company's subsidiaries. Until February 24, 2010, when Fitch, at the request of the Company, withdrew the insurer financial strength and debt ratings of all of the Company's rated subsidiaries at their then current levels, Fitch's insurer financial strength ratings for AGC, AGUK, AG Re, AGRO and AGMIC were AA-, and for AGM, FSAIC, FSA International and AGE AA. All of such ratings had been assigned a negative outlook.

On July 1, 2009, S&P published a Research Update in which it affirmed its "AAA" counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on AGC and AGM. At the same time, S&P revised its outlook on AGC and AGUK to negative from stable and continued its negative outlook on AGM. S&P cited as a rationale for its actions the large single risk concentration exposure that the Company and AGM retain to Belgium and France prior to the posting of collateral by Dexia Holdings in October 2011, all in connection with the AGMH Acquisition. In addition, the outlook also reflected S&P's view that the change in the competitive dynamics of the industry—with the potential entrance of new competitors, alternative forms of credit enhancement and limited insurance penetration in the U.S. public finance market—could hurt the companies' business prospects. There can be no assurance that S&P will not take further action on the Company's ratings.

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and its prospects for new business opportunities. A downgrade may also reduce the value of the reinsurance the Company offers, which may no longer be of sufficient economic value for the Company's customers to continue to cede to the Company's subsidiaries at economically viable rates. See "—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Sensitivity to Rating Agency Actions in Reinsurance Business and Insured CDS Portfolio."

AGMH Acquisition

On July 1, 2009, the Company completed the AGMH Acquisition. The total purchase price paid by the Company was $546 million in cash and 22.3 million AGL common shares. AGL issued approximately 21.8 million common shares to Dexia, all of which Dexia subsequently sold in a secondary offering that closed in March 2010.

The AGMH Acquisition excluded AGMH's former financial products segment, which was comprised of its GIC business, its MTN business and the equity payment undertaking agreement in the leveraged lease business. The AGMH subsidiaries that conducted AGMH's financial products business were transferred to Dexia Holdings prior to completion of the AGMH Acquisition. In addition, as further described under "—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Liquidity Arrangements with respect to AGMH's former Financial Products Business," the Company has entered into various agreements with Dexia pursuant to which it has assumed the credit and liquidity risks associated with AGMH's former financial products business.

The Company has agreed with Dexia Holdings to operate the business of AGM in accordance with the key parameters described. These restrictions will limit the Company's operating and financial flexibility.

Generally, for three years after the closing of the AGMH Acquisition:

•

Unless AGM is rated below A1 by Moody's and AA- by S&P, it will only insure public finance and infrastructure obligations. An exception applies in connection with the recapture of business ceded by AGM to a third party reinsurer under certain circumstances.

•

AGM will continue to be domiciled in New York and be treated as a monoline bond insurer for regulatory purposes.

•

AGM will not take any of the following actions unless it receives prior rating agency confirmation that such action would not cause any rating currently assigned to AGM to be downgraded immediately following such action:

(a): merger;
(b): issuance of debt or other borrowing exceeding $250 million;
(c): issuance of equity or other capital instruments exceeding $250 million;
(d): entry into new reinsurance arrangements involving more than 10% of the portfolio as measured by either unearned premium reserves or net par outstanding; or
(e): any waiver, amendment or modification of any agreement relating to capital or liquidity support of AGM exceeding $250 million.

•

AGM will not repurchase, redeem or pay any dividends in relation to any class of equity interests, unless:

(a): at such time AGM is rated at least AA- by S&P and Aa3 by Moody's (if such rating agencies still rate financial guaranty insurers generally) and the aggregate amount of such dividends in any year does not exceed 125% of AGMH's debt service for that year; or

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(b): AGM receives prior rating agency confirmation that such action would not cause any rating currently assigned to AGM to be downgraded immediately following such action.

•

AGM will not enter into:

(a): commutation or novation agreements with respect to its insured public finance portfolio involving a payment by AGM exceeding $250 million; or
(b): any "cut-through" reinsurance, pledge of collateral security or similar arrangement involving a payment by AGM whereby the benefits of reinsurance purchased by AGM or of other assets of AGM would be available on a preferred or priority basis to a particular class or subset of policyholders of AGM relative to the position of Dexia as policyholder upon the default or insolvency of AGM (whether or not with the consent of any relevant insurance regulatory authority).

This provision does not limit: (x) collateral arrangements between AGM and its subsidiaries in support of intercompany reinsurance obligations; or (y) statutory deposits or other collateral arrangements required by law in connection with the conduct of business in any jurisdiction; or (z) pledges of recoveries or other amounts to secure repayment of amounts borrowed under AGM's "soft capital" facilities or its $1 billion strip liquidity facility with DCL. See "—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Liquidity Arrangements with Respect to the Leveraged Lease Business."

Furthermore, until the date on which (a) a credit rating has been assigned by S&P and Moody's to the GIC issuers (and/or the liabilities of the GIC issuers under the relevant GICs have been separately rated by S&P and Moody's) which is independent of the financial strength rating of AGM and (b) the principal amount of GICs in relation to which a downgrade of AGM may result in a requirement to post collateral or terminate such GIC, notwithstanding the existence of a separate rating referred to in (a) of at least AA or higher is below $1.0 billion (the "AGM De-Linkage Date"):

•: AGM will restrict its liquidity exposure such that no GIC contracts or similar liabilities insured by AGM after the closing shall have terms that require acceleration, termination or prepayment based on a downgrade or withdrawal of any rating assigned to AGM's financial strength, a downgrade of the issuer or obligor under the agreement, or a downgrade of any third party; and
•: AGM will continue to be rated by each of Moody's and S&P, if such rating agencies still rate financial guaranty insurers generally.

Notwithstanding the above, all such restrictions will terminate on any date after the AGM De-Linkage Date that the aggregate principal amount or notional amount of exposure of Dexia Holdings and any of its affiliates (excluding the exposures relating to the financial products business) to any transactions insured by AGM or any of its affiliates prior to November 14, 2008 is less than $1 billion. Breach of any of these restrictions not remedied within 30 days of notice by Dexia Holdings entitles Dexia Holdings to payment of damages, injunctive relief or other remedies available under applicable law.

On July 1, 2009, consolidated premiums receivable and reinsurance balances payable were recorded at historical value (i.e., the carrying amount on the AGMH balance sheet at June 30, 2009, the date prior to the AGMH Acquisition) in the Company's consolidated balance sheet. Gross and ceded deferred premium revenue represents the stand ready obligation. The carrying value recorded on July 1, 2009 takes into account the total fair value of each financial guaranty contract, including expected losses, on a contract by contract basis, less premiums receivable or premiums payable.

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deferred premium revenue liability and becomes recognized in the consolidated statements of operations only when the sum of such claim payments and the present value of future expected losses exceeds deferred premium revenue. See "—Losses and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserve."

This treatment results in a "gross-up" of the Company's consolidated statements of operations in the "net earned premiums" and "loss and loss adjustment expenses" line items because the inception to date expected losses for the AGMH insured portfolio will be earned through premiums earnings, while those same losses will be recognized in loss and loss adjustment expenses ("LAE") over time as the accumulated paid losses in the contra liability account plus future expected losses begin to exceed the deferred premium revenue.

Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

The Company has prepared unaudited proforma information which presents the combined results of operations of Assured Guaranty and the Acquired Companies. See Note 2 in "Item 1. Financial Statements". The unaudited pro forma combined financial information is presented for illustrative purposes only and does not indicate the financial results of the combined company had the Companies actually been combined as of January 1, 2009, nor is it indicative of the results of operations in future periods.

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Insured Portfolio Profile

The following table presents the insured portfolio by asset class. It includes all financial guaranty contracts outstanding as of the dates presented, regardless of the form written (i.e. credit derivative form or traditional financial guaranty form).

				As of March 31, 2010			As of December 31, 2009

Sector				Net Par Outstanding		Avg. Rating(1)	Net Par Outstanding		Avg. Rating(1)
				(dollars in millions)
Public Finance:
	U.S.:
		General obligation		$	181,262	A+	$	178,384	A+
		Tax backed			84,411	A+		83,029	A+
		Municipal utilities			71,326	A		69,578	A
		Transportation			36,371	A		35,297	A
		Healthcare			22,542	A		22,009	A
		Higher education			15,209	A+		15,132	A+
		Housing			7,506	AA-		8,524	AA-
		Infrastructure finance			4,215	BBB+		3,553	BBB
		Investor-owned utilities			1,732	BBB+		1,690	BBB+
		Other public finance—U.S.			5,538	A		5,882	A

			Total public finance—U.S.		430,112	A+		423,078	A+
	Non-U.S.:
		Infrastructure finance			15,747	BBB		16,344	BBB
		Regulated utilities			13,465	BBB+		13,851	BBB+
		Pooled infrastructure			4,140	AA		4,404	AA
		Other public finance—non-U.S.			8,054	AA-		8,176	AA-

			Total public finance—non-U.S.		41,406	A-		42,775	A-

Total public finance					471,518	A		465,853	A
Structured Finance:
	U.S.:
		Pooled corporate obligations			72,886	AAA		74,333	AAA
		Residential mortgage-backed and home equity			28,290	BB		29,176	BB+
		Financial products			9,653	AA-		10,251	AA-
		Consumer receivables			7,367	A+		8,873	A+
		Commercial mortgage-backed securities			7,358	AAA		7,410	AAA
		Structured credit			2,547	A-		2,607	A-
		Commercial receivables			2,392	BBB+		2,482	BBB+
		Insurance securitizations			1,651	A+		1,651	A+
		Other structured finance—U.S.			1,400	A+		1,518	A+

			Total structured finance—U.S.		133,544	AA-		138,301	AA-
	Non-U.S.:
		Pooled corporate obligations			23,659	AAA		24,697	AAA
		Residential mortgage-backed and home equity			4,898	AAA		5,227	AAA
		Structured credit			1,921	BBB		2,069	BBB
		Commercial receivables			1,623	A-		1,872	A-
		Insurance securitizations			980	CCC-		981	CCC-
		Commercial mortgage-backed securities			696	AA		752	AA
		Consumer receivables			161	AAA		—	—
		Other structured finance—non-U.S.			465	AA+		670	AAA

			Total structured finance—non-U.S.		34,403	AA+		36,268	AA+

Total structured finance					167,947	AA-		174,569	AA-

Total net par outstanding				$	639,465	A+	$	640,422	A+

(1): Represents the Company's internal rating. The Company's ratings scale is similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies.

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The March 31, 2010 amounts above include $87.5 billion of AGM structured finance net par outstanding. AGM has not insured a mortgage-backed transaction since January 2008 and announced its complete withdrawal from the structured finance market in August 2008. The structured finance transactions that remain in AGM's insured portfolio are of double-A average underlying credit quality. Management expects AGM's structured finance portfolio to run-off rapidly: 18% by year-end 2010, 50% by year end 2012, and 83% by year-end 2015.

The following table presents the insured portfolio by rating:

		As of March 31, 2010					As of December 31, 2009

Ratings(1)		Net Par Outstanding		% of Net Par Outstanding			Net Par Outstanding		% of Net Par Outstanding
		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	34,830		5.4	%	$	43,353		6.8	%
AAA			64,226		10.0			59,786		9.3
AA			198,699		31.1			196,859		30.7
A			236,950		37.1			233,200		36.4
BBB			79,222		12.4			82,059		12.8
Below investment grade ("BIG")			25,538		4.0			25,165		4.0

	Total exposures	$	639,465		100.0	%	$	640,422		100.0	%

(1): Represents the Company's internal rating. The Company's ratings scale is similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies. The super senior category, which is not generally used by rating agencies, is used by the Company in instances where the Company's triple-A rated exposure has additional credit enhancement due to either (1) the existence of another security rated triple-A that is subordinated to the Company's exposure or (2) the Company's exposure benefits from a different form of credit enhancement that would pay any claims first in the event that any of the exposures incurs a loss, and such credit enhancement, in management's opinion, causes the Company's attachment point to be materially above the triple-A attachment point.

The table above presents par outstanding net of cessions to reinsurers. See Note 12 in "Item 1. Financial Statements" for information related to reinsurers.

Significant Risk Management Activities

The Company's policies and procedures relating to risk assessment and risk management are overseen by its Board of Directors. The Board takes an enterprise-wide approach to risk management that is designed to support the Company's business plans at a reasonable level of risk. A fundamental part of risk assessment and risk management is not only understanding the risks a company faces and what steps management is taking to manage those risks, but also understanding what level of risk is appropriate for the Company. The Board of Directors annually approves the Company's business plan, factoring risk management into account. The involvement of the Board in setting the Company's business strategy is a key part of its assessment of management's risk tolerance and also a determination of what constitutes an appropriate level of risk for the Company.

While the Board of Directors has the ultimate oversight responsibility for the risk management process, various committees of the Board also have responsibility for risk assessment and risk management. The Risk Oversight Committee of the Board of Directors oversees the standards, controls, limits, guidelines and policies that the Company establishes and implements in respect of credit underwriting and risk management. It focuses on management's assessment and management of both (i) credit risks and (ii) other risks, including, but not limited to, financial, legal and operational risks, and risks relating to the Company's reputation and ethical standards. In addition, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors is responsible for, among other matters, reviewing policies and

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processes related to the evaluation of risk assessment and risk management, including the Company's major financial risk exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor and control such exposures. It also reviews compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

The Company has established a number of management committees to develop underwriting and risk management guidelines, policies and procedures for the Company's insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries that are tailored to their respective businesses, providing multiple levels of credit review and analysis.

•: Portfolio Risk Management Committee—This committee establishes company-wide credit policy for all segments of the Company's business. It implements specific underwriting procedures and limits for the Company and allocates underwriting capacity among the Company's subsidiaries. The Portfolio Risk Management Committee focuses on measuring and managing credit, market and liquidity risk for the overall company. All transactions in new asset classes or new jurisdictions must be approved by this committee.
•: U.S. Management Committee—This committee establishes strategic policy and reviews the implementation of strategic initiatives and general business progress in the U.S. The U.S. Management Committee approves risk policy at the U.S. operating company level.
•: U.S. Risk Management Committee—This committee conducts an in-depth review of the insured portfolios of the U.S. subsidiaries, focusing on varying portions of the portfolio at each meeting. It assigns internal ratings of the insured transactions and reviews sector reports, monthly product line surveillance reports and compliance reports.
•: Workout Committee—This committee receives reports from Surveillance and Workout personnel on transactions that might benefit from active loss mitigation and develops and approves loss mitigation strategies for such transactions.
•: Reserve Committee—This committee is composed of the US Reserve Committee and the AG Re Reserve Committee. Both committees review the reserve methodology and assumptions for each major asset class or significant BIG deal, as well as the loss projection scenarios used and the probability weights assigned to those scenarios. The US Reserve Committee establishes reserves for AGC and AGM, taking into consideration the supporting information provided by Surveillance personnel. It is composed of the President and Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel, Chief Accounting Officer and Chief Surveillance Officer and Chief Actuary of AGC and AGM. The AG Re Reserve Committee is composed of the President, Chief Credit Officer and Financial Controller of AG Re. The AG Re Reserve Committee reviews its reserving methodology with the AG Re board of directors.

Work-out personnel are responsible for managing work-out and loss situations. They develop strategies designed to enhance the ability of the Company to enforce its contractual rights and remedies and to mitigate its losses, engage in negotiation discussions with transaction participants and, when necessary, manage the Company's litigation proceedings.

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The Company segregates its insured portfolio of investment grade ("IG") and BIG risks into surveillance categories to facilitate the appropriate allocation of resources to monitoring and loss mitigation efforts and to aid in establishing the appropriate cycle for periodic review for each exposure. BIG credits include all credits internally rated lower than BBB-. The Company's internal credit ratings are based on the Company's internal assessment of the likelihood of default. The Company's internal credit ratings are expressed on a ratings scale similar to that used by the rating agencies and are generally reflective of an approach similar to that employed by the rating agencies.

The Company monitors its IG credits to determine whether any new credits need to be internally downgraded to BIG. Quarterly procedures include qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Company's insured portfolio to identify potential new BIG credits. The Company refreshes its internal credit ratings on individual credits in cycles based on the Company's view of the credit's quality, loss potential, volatility and sector. Ratings on credits and in sectors identified as under the most stress or with the most potential volatility are reviewed every quarter. Credits identified through this process as BIG are subjected to further review by Surveillance personnel to determine the various probabilities of a loss. Surveillance personnel present analysis related to potential loss scenarios to the reserve committee.

Within the BIG category, the Company assigns each credit to one of three surveillance categories:

•: BIG Category 1: BIG transactions showing sufficient deterioration to make material losses possible, but for which expected losses do not exceed deferred premium revenue. Non-investment grade transactions on which liquidity claims have been paid are in this category. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.
•: BIG Category 2: BIG transactions for which expected losses have been established but for which no unreimbursed claims have yet been paid. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.
•: BIG Category 3: BIG transactions for which expected losses have been established and on which unreimbursed claims have been paid. Transactions remain in this category when claims have been paid and only a recoverable remains. Intense monitoring and intervention is employed, with internal credit ratings reviewed quarterly.

Net Par Outstanding for Below Investment Grade Credits

		As of March 31, 2010

		Net Par Outstanding
Description		Financial Guaranty		Credit Derivatives		Total		% of Total Net Par Outstanding			Number of Credits in Category
		(dollars in millions)
BIG:
	Category 1	$	4,226	$	1,926	$	6,152		1.0	%		106
	Category 2		6,748		4,654		11,402		1.8			232
	Category 3		6,615		1,369		7,984		1.2			48

Total BIG		$	17,589	$	7,949	$	25,538		4.0	%		386

Results of Operations

Estimates and Assumptions

The Company's consolidated financial statements include amounts that, either by their nature or due to GAAP requirements, are determined using estimates and assumptions. The actual amounts realized could ultimately be materially different from the amounts currently provided for in the

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Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements. Management believes the items requiring the most inherently subjective and complex estimates to be

•: reserves for losses and LAE including assumptions for breaches of representations and warranties,
•: fair value of credit derivatives,
•: fair value of CCS,
•: valuation of investments,
•: other-than-temporary impairment ("OTTI") of investments,
•: DAC,
•: deferred income taxes,
•: share based compensation, and
•: premium revenue recognition and premiums receivable.

An understanding of the Company's accounting policies for these items is of critical importance to understanding its consolidated financial statements. See Note 3 in "Item 1. Financial Statements" for a discussion of significant accounting policies and fair value methodologies. The following discussion of the consolidated and segment results of operations includes information regarding the estimates and assumptions used for these items and should be read in conjunction with the notes to the Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements.

Analysis of Consolidated Statements of Operations

The following table presents summary consolidated results of operations data for the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009. Comparability of periods presented is affected by the inclusion of AGMH results in 2010 and the adoption of new accounting guidance requiring the consolidation of certain VIEs previously accounted for as financial guaranty insurance.

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Summary Consolidated Results

		Three Months Ended December 31

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
Revenues:
Net earned premiums		$	319.6		$	148.4
Net investment income			84.3			43.6
Net realized investment gains (losses)			9.4			(17.1	)
Change in fair value of credit derivatives:
	Realized gains and other settlements		26.7			20.6
	Net unrealized gains		252.1			27.0

Net change in fair value of credit derivatives			278.8			47.6
Fair value gain (loss) on committed capital securities			(1.3	)		19.7
Financial guaranty variable interest entities revenues			4.2			—
Other income			(11.1	)		0.9

	Total revenues		683.9			243.1

Expenses:
Loss and loss adjustment expenses			130.5			79.8
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs			8.2			23.4
AGMH acquisition-related expenses			4.0			4.6
Interest expense			25.1			5.8
Financial guaranty variable interest entities expenses			14.8			—
Other operating expenses			64.4			29.4

	Total expenses		247.0			143.0

Income before provision for income taxes			436.9			100.1
Provision for income taxes			114.9			14.6

	Net income		322.0			85.5
Less: Noncontrolling interest of variable interest entities			—			—

	Net income attributable to Assured Guaranty Ltd.	$	322.0		$	85.5

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Net Earned Premiums

Net Earned Premiums

				Three Months Ended March 31

				2010			2009
				(in millions)
Financial guaranty direct:
	Public finance
		Scheduled premiums		$	80.6		$	11.9
		Refundings and accelerations, net			14.5			73.6

			Total public finance		95.1			85.5
	Structured Finance
		Scheduled premiums(1)			206.4			16.0
		Refundings and accelerations, net			(0.9	)		—

			Total structured finance		205.5			16.0

		Total financial guaranty direct			300.6			101.5
Financial guaranty reinsurance:
	Public finance
		Scheduled premiums			8.2			18.1
		Refundings and accelerations, net			1.8			16.7

			Total public finance		10.0			34.8
	Structured Finance
			Total structured finance		8.4			11.4

		Total financial guaranty reinsurance			18.4			46.2
Other					0.6			0.7

Total net earned premiums				$	319.6		$	148.4

(1): Excludes $6.0 million in First Quarter 2010 in premiums earned related to consolidated VIEs.

The increase in financial guaranty direct net premiums earned in First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 is primarily attributable to the AGMH Acquisition which is included in the financial guaranty direct segment. The decrease in the financial guaranty reinsurance premiums is due mainly to reallocation of AG Re's assumed book of business from AGMH from the financial guaranty reinsurance segment to the financial guaranty direct segment, runoff of the existing book of business and lack of new business in 2010.

At March 31, 2010, the Company had $7.2 billion of remaining deferred premium revenues to be earned over the life of its contracts. Due to the runoff of AGMH's unearned premiums, which include purchase accounting adjustment, earned premiums is expected to decrease in each year unless replaced by new business.

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Net Investment Income

Net Investment Income

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in thousands)
Income from fixed maturity securities		$	87,140		$	43,479
Income from short-term investments			(368	)		1,075

	Gross investment income		86,772			44,554
Investment expenses			(2,470	)		(953	)

	Net investment income	$	84,302		$	43,601

Investment income is a function of the yield that the Company earns on invested assets. The investment yield is a function of market interest rates at the time of investment as well as the type, credit quality and maturity of the invested assets. Pre-tax yields to maturity were 3.52% and 5.0% as of March 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. Although pre-tax yields decreased, net investment income increased significantly due to the addition of AGMH's $5.8 billion in invested assets as of July 1, 2009.

In accordance with acquisition accounting requirements, the amortized cost basis of investments acquired in the AGMH Acquisition at the closing date was equal to the fair value at such date. At the Acquisition Date, the net premium to par of $59.1 million will be amortized to net investment income over the remaining term to maturity of each of the investments.

Net Realized Investment Gains (Losses)

Net Realized Investment Gains (Losses)

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
OTTI losses		$	(1.2	)	$	(18.4	)
Less: portion of OTTI loss recognized in other comprehensive income			(0.7	)		—

	Subtotal		(0.5	)		(18.4	)
Other net realized investment gains (losses)			9.9			1.3

	Total realized investment gains (losses)	$	9.4		$	(17.1	)

Net realized investment gains (losses), net of related income taxes		$	6.7		$	(17.1	)

The Company's $0.5 million of OTTI losses for First Quarter 2010 included losses on mortgage-backed securities and municipal securities. The First Quarter 2010 OTTI represents the sum of the credit component of the securities for which we determined the unrealized loss to be other-than-temporary and the entire unrealized loss related to securities the Company intends to sell. The Company continues to monitor the value of these investments. Future events may result in further impairment of the Company's investments. The Company recognized $18.4 million of OTTI losses substantially related to mortgage-backed and corporate securities in First Quarter 2009 primarily due to the fact that it did not have the intent to hold these securities until there was recovery in their value.

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entire unrealized loss on OTTI securities was recognized in the consolidated statements of operations. Subsequent to that date, only the credit component of the unrealized loss on OTTI securities was recognized in the consolidated statements of operations.

Net Change in Fair Value of Credit Derivatives

Net Change in Fair Value of Credit Derivatives

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
Realized gains on credit derivatives(1)		$	54.7		$	29.7
Credit impairment on credit derivatives			(76.4	)		(1.0	)
Net unrealized gains (losses), excluding credit impairment			300.5			18.9

	Net change in fair value	$	278.8		$	47.6

(1): Comprised of fees on credit derivatives and ceding commissions.

The increase in realized gains on credit derivatives in First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 was due primarily to the addition of earnings on the acquired AGMH portfolio of credit derivatives. Losses incurred on credit derivatives in First Quarter 2010 were primarily due to losses in TruPS and U.S. RMBS sectors. The First Quarter 2010 net unrealized gain, excluding credit impairment, was primarily due to tightening of market credit spreads.

Cumulative fair value gains (losses) determined on a contract by contract basis, are reflected as either assets or liabilities in the Company's consolidated balance sheets. Unrealized gains and losses resulting from changes in the fair value of credit derivatives, excluding credit impairment, occur because of changes in interest rates, credit spreads, the credit ratings of the referenced entities, the Company's credit rating and other market factors. The unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives excluding credit impairment, is expected to reduce to zero as the exposure approaches its maturity date, unless there is a payment default on the exposure or early termination. In the event that the Company terminates a credit derivative contract prior to maturity, the resulting gain or loss will be realized through net change of fair value of credit derivatives. Changes in the fair value of the Company's credit derivatives that do not reflect actual or expected claims or credit losses have no impact on the Company's claims paying resources, rating agency capital or regulatory capital positions.

The First Quarter 2010 unrealized gain on credit derivatives was primarily due to the increased cost to buy protection in AGC's name as the market cost of AGC's credit protection increased. This led to lower implied premiums on several Subprime RMBS and TruPS transactions. The change in fair value for First Quarter 2009 was attributable to spreads widening, partially offset by the higher credit risk of the Company as indicated by the cost of credit protection on us, which increased from 1,775 basis points at December 31, 2008 to 3,847 basis points at March 31, 2009. With considerable volatility continuing in the market, the fair value adjustment amount is expected to fluctuate significantly in future periods.

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Effect of Company's Credit Spread on Credit Derivatives Fair Value

		As of March 31, 2010			As of December 31, 2009

		(dollars in millions)
Quoted price of credit default swap ("CDS") contract (in basis points):
	AGC		734			634
	AGM		468			541
Fair value of CDS contracts:
	Before considering implication of the Company's credit spreads	$	(5,253.5	)	$	(5,830.8	)
	After considering implication of the Company's credit spreads	$	(1,284.9	)	$	(1,542.1	)

The Company views its credit derivatives as an extension of the Company's financial guaranty business, however they do not qualify for the financial guaranty insurance scope exception and therefore are reported at fair value, with changes in fair value included in earnings.

The gain or loss created by the estimated fair value adjustment will rise or fall based on estimated market pricing and may not be an indication of ultimate claims. Fair value is defined as the amount at which an asset or liability could be bought or sold in a current transaction between willing parties. The Company enters into credit derivative contracts which require the Company to make payments upon the occurrence of certain defined credit events relating to an underlying obligation (generally a fixed income obligation). The Company's credit derivative exposures are substantially similar to its financial guaranty insurance contracts and provide for credit protection against payment default. They are contracts that are generally held to maturity. The unrealized gains and losses on credit derivatives will reduce to zero as the exposure approaches its maturity date, unless there is a payment default on the exposure.

The Company does not typically exit its credit derivative contracts and there are typically no quoted prices for its instruments or similar instruments. Observable inputs other than quoted market prices exist; however, these inputs reflect contracts that do not contain terms and conditions similar to those in the credit derivatives issued by the Company. Therefore, the valuation of the Company's credit derivative contracts requires the use of models that contain significant, unobservable inputs. Thus, management believes that the Company's credit derivative contract valuations are in Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. See Note 9 in "Item 1. Financial Statements".

The fair value of these instruments represents the difference between the present value of remaining contractual premiums charged for the credit protection and the estimated present value of premiums that a comparable financial guarantor would hypothetically charge for the same protection at the balance sheet date. The fair value of these contracts depends on a number of factors including notional amount of the contract, expected term, credit spreads, changes in interest rates, the credit ratings of the referenced entities, the Company's own credit risk and remaining contractual flows.

Remaining contractual cash flows are the most readily observable variables since they are based on the CDS contractual terms. These variables include:

•: net premiums received and receivable on written credit derivative contracts,
•: net premiums paid and payable on purchased contracts,
•: losses paid and payable to credit derivative contract counterparties and
•: losses recovered and recoverable on purchased contracts.

The remaining key variables described above impact unrealized gains (losses) on credit derivatives.

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Market conditions at March 31, 2010 were such that market prices for the Company's CDS contracts were not generally available. Where market prices were not available, the Company used proprietary valuation models that used both unobservable and observable market data inputs such as various market indices, credit spreads, the Company's own credit spread, and estimated contractual payments to estimate the fair value of its credit derivatives. These models are primarily developed internally based on market conventions for similar transactions.

Management considers the non-standard terms of its credit derivative contracts in determining the fair value of these contracts. These terms differ from more standardized credit derivatives sold by companies outside of the financial guaranty industry. The non-standard terms include the absence of collateral support agreements or immediate settlement provisions. In addition, the Company employs relatively high attachment points and does not exit derivatives it sells for credit protection purposes, except under specific circumstances such as novations upon exiting a line of business. Because of these terms and conditions, the fair value of the Company's credit derivatives may not reflect the same prices observed in an actively traded market of CDS that do not contain terms and conditions similar to those observed in the financial guaranty market. These Company's models and the related assumptions are continuously reevaluated by management and enhanced, as appropriate, based upon improvements in modeling techniques and availability of more timely and relevant market information.

Valuation models include the use of management estimates and current market information. Management is also required to make assumptions on how the fair value of credit derivative instruments is affected by current market conditions. Management considers factors such as current prices charged for similar agreements, performance of underlying assets, life of the instrument, and the extent of CDS exposure the Company ceded under reinsurance agreements, and the nature and extent of activity in the financial guaranty credit derivative marketplace. The assumptions that management uses to determine its fair value may change in the future due to market conditions. Due to the inherent uncertainties of the assumptions used in the valuation models to determine the fair value of these credit derivative products, actual experience may differ from the estimates reflected in the Company's unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and the differences may be material.

The gain or loss created by the estimated fair value adjustment will rise or fall based on estimated market pricing and may not be an indication of ultimate claims. Fair value is defined as the amount at which an asset or liability could be bought or sold in a current transaction between willing parties. The Company enters into credit derivative contracts which require it to make payments upon the occurrence of certain defined credit events relating to an underlying obligation (generally a fixed income obligation). The Company's credit derivative exposures are substantially similar to its financial guaranty insurance contracts and provide for credit protection against payment default. They are contracts that are generally held to maturity. The unrealized gains and losses on credit derivatives will reduce to zero as the exposure approaches its maturity date, absent payment defaults on the exposure or early termination. See "—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Liquidity Requirements and Resources".

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The table below presents management's estimates of expected claim payments related to BIG credit impaired CDS. Expected loss to be paid represents the present value of future net cash outflows and includes a benefit for breaches of representations and warranties of approximately $57.0 million. The assumptions used to calculate the present value expected losses for credit derivatives are consistent with the assumptions used for BIG transactions written in financial guaranty insurance form as discussed below in "—Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves".

				Expected Loss to be Paid as of December 31, 2009		Loss Development			Less: Paid Losses		Expected Loss to be Paid as of March 31, 2010(1)

				(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Alt-A First lien		$	141,033	$	33,582		$	20	$	174,595
		Alt-A Options ARM			131,351		(2,073	)		26,009		103,269
		Subprime			73,314		15,126			795		87,645

			Total First Lien		345,698		46,635			26,824		365,509
	Second Lien:
		CES			44,753		(7,588	)		—		37,165

			Total Second Lien		44,753		(7,588	)		—		37,165

Total US RMBS					390,451		39,047			26,824		402,674
Other structured finance					89,671		39,781			833		128,619
Public Finance					302		526			356		472

Total				$	480,424	$	79,354		$	28,013	$	531,765

(1): The Company expects approximately $63.0 million in present value of future installment revenues to offset these expected loss payments.

Fair Value Gain (Loss) on Committed Capital Securities

CCS consist of committed preferred trust securities which allow AGC and AGM to issue preferred stock to trusts created for the purpose of issuing such securities investing in high quality investments and selling put options to AGC and AGM in exchange for cash. The fair value of CCS represents the difference between the present value of remaining expected put option premium payments under the AGC's CCS (the "AGC CCS Securities") and AGM Committed Preferred Trust Securities (the "AGM CPS Securities") agreements and the value of such estimated payments based upon the quoted price for such premium payments as of the reporting dates (see Note 17 in "Item 1. Financial Statements"). Changes in fair value of this financial instrument are included in the consolidated statement of operations. The significant market inputs used are observable; therefore, the Company classified this fair value measurement as Level 2.

Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Committed Capital Securities

		As of March 31, 2010		As of December 31, 2009

		(in millions)
AGC CCS Securities		$	5.4	$	4.0
AGM CPS Securities			2.9		5.5

	Total	$	8.3	$	9.5

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Change in Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Committed Capital Securities

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
AGC CCS Securities		$	1.4		$	19.7
AGM CPS Securities			(2.7	)		—

	Total	$	(1.3	)	$	19.7

Other Income and Other Operating Expenses

The following tables show the components of "other income" and segregate the components of operating expenses not considered in underwriting gains (losses) in segment disclosures in Note 21 in "Item 1. Financial Statements". Other income in First Quarter 2010 includes foreign exchange revaluation losses on premium receivable balances partially offset by gains on reassumptions and other miscellaneous fees earned.

Other Income

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010			2009
		(in millions)
Foreign exchange loss on revaluation of premium receivable		$	(31.1	)	$	—
Other			18.2			0.9

	Other income included in underwriting gain (loss)		(12.9	)		0.9
SERP(1)			1.8			—

	Other income	$	(11.1	)	$	0.9

Other Operating Expenses

		Three Months Ended March 31,

		2010		2009
		(in millions)
Other operating expenses		$	64.4	$	29.4
Less: CCS premium expense			2.6		1.4
Less: SERP			1.8		—

	Other operating expenses included in underwriting gain (loss)	$	60.0	$	28.0

(1): Supplemental executive retirement plan ("SERP") assets are held to defease the Company's plan obligations. The changes in fair value may vary significantly from period to period. Increases or decreases in the fair value of the assets are recorded in "other income" and are primarily offset by like changes in the fair value of the related liability, which are recorded in "other operating expenses".

The increase in other operating expenses for First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 was mainly due to the addition of other operating expenses of AGMH. The CCS Premium expense

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reflects the put option premiums associated with AGC's CCS and the AGM CPS Securities. The increase in expenses is primarily attributable to the inclusion of AGMH expenses in 2010.

Accounting for Share-Based Compensation

Share-Based Compensation Summary

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010		2009
	(in millions)
Share-based compensation cost before the effects of deferred acquisition costs, pre tax	$	7.0	$	4.3
Share-based compensation cost, before the effects of deferred acquisition costs, after-tax		5.6		3.5
Share based compensation expense for retirement-eligible employees, pre-tax		4.6		2.0
Share based compensation expense for retirement-eligible employees, after-tax		3.8		1.8

Accounting for Cash-Based Compensation

In February 2006, the Company established the Assured Guaranty Ltd. Performance Retention Plan ("PRP") which permits the grant of cash based awards to selected employees. PRP awards may be treated as nonqualified deferred compensation subject to the rules of Internal Revenue Code Section 409A, and the PRP was amended in 2007 to comply with those rules. The PRP was again amended in 2008 to be a sub-plan under the Company's Long-Term Incentive Plan (enabling awards under the plan to be performance based compensation exempt from the $1 million limit on tax deductible compensation). The revisions also give the Compensation Committee greater flexibility in establishing the terms of performance retention awards, including the ability to establish different performance periods and performance objectives.

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010		2009
	(in millions)
Performance Retention Plan expense, pre-tax	$	8.0	$	5.2
Performance Retention Plan expense, after-tax		5.5		4.4
Performance Retention Plan expense for retirement-eligible employees, pre-tax		6.0		4.3

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Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves

The following table presents the loss and LAE related to financial guaranty contracts, other than those written in credit derivative form.

Loss and Loss Adjustment Expenses (Recoveries)
By Type

					Three Months Ended March 31,

					2010			2009
					(in thousands)
Financial Guaranty:
	U.S. RMBS:
		First Lien:
			Prime First lien		$	62		$	519
			Alt-A First lien			5,431			151
			Alt-A Options ARM			44,434			(74	)
			Subprime			24,713			811

				Total First Lien		74,640			1,407
		Second Lien:
			Closed end second lien ("CES")			4,345			1,998
			Home equity lines of credit ("HELOC")			23,620			18,520

				Total Second Lien		27,965			20,518

	Total U.S. RMBS					102,605			21,925
	Other structured finance					10,168			4,822
	Public Finance					27,691			21,707

Total Financial Guaranty						140,464			48,454
Other						18			31,300

			Subtotal			140,482			79,754
Losses incurred on consolidated financial guaranty VIEs						(9,981	)		—

		Total loss and loss adjustment expenses			$	130,501		$	79,754

The increase in losses incurred for financial guaranty contracts accounted for as insurance contracts in First Quarter 2010 compared to First Quarter 2009 is primarily driven by adverse development on first lien U.S. RMBS exposures. Positive or adverse development does not emerge in net income until expected losses exceed the deferred premium revenue on a contract by contract basis. As a result of the application of acquisition accounting related to the AGMH Acquisition, financial guaranty policies acquired in that transaction were recorded on the consolidated balance sheet on the Acquisition Date at fair value, resulting in the recording of higher unearned premium reserves than similar contracts in the pre-existing AGC and AG Re book of business due to the deterioration in the performance of certain insured transaction as well as changed market conditions. Accordingly, the Company will recognize loss and LAE earlier on a legacy AGC or AG Re policy compared to an identical policy in the AGM portfolio because its recorded unearned premium reserve is lower. See Note 7 in "Item 1. Financial Statements".

Loss and LAE increases in First Quarter 2010 were mainly related to rising delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures in RMBS transactions.

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Loss and LAE for First Quarter 2009 were $79.8 million. Loss and LAE for the financial guaranty direct segment were $11.7 million in First Quarter 2009 and mainly related to HELOC and other RMBS exposures. The financial guaranty reinsurance segment loss and LAE were $36.8 million in First Quarter 2009 and included $22.1 million related to our HELOC and RMBS exposures, and $8.1 million related to the Jefferson County public finance transaction. Loss and LAE in the former mortgage guaranty segment was $31.3 million primarily due to a loss reserve estimate related to an arbitration proceeding.

The following table provides information on BIG financial guaranty insurance and reinsurance contracts. See "—Significant Risk Management Activities."

Financial Guaranty BIG Transaction Loss Summary
March 31, 2010

			BIG Categories

			BIG 1			BIG 2		BIG 3			Total
			(dollars in millions)
Number of risks				90			184		40			314
Remaining weighted-average contract period (in years)				8.9			8.7		9.4			9.0
Gross insured contractual payments outstanding:
	Principal		$	4,539		$	7,047	$	7,370		$	18,956
	Interest			1,600			3,142		1,947			6,689

		Total	$	6,139		$	10,189	$	9,317		$	25,645

Gross expected cash outflows for loss and LAE			$	385.1		$	2,376.5	$	1,797.5		$	4,559.1
Less:
	Gross potential recoveries(1)			411.1			811.5		1,629.3			2,851.9
	Discount, net			(27.5	)		557.6		155.0			685.1

Present value of expected cash flows for loss and LAE			$	1.5		$	1,007.4	$	13.2		$	1,022.1

Deferred premium revenue			$	134.0		$	1,011.9	$	988.6		$	2,134.5
Gross reserves (salvage) for loss and loss adjustment expenses reported in the balance sheet			$	(12.0	)	$	203.9	$	(97.5	)	$	94.4
Reinsurance recoverable (payable)			$	(3.5	)	$	4.2	$	(2.5	)	$	(1.8	)

(1): Includes estimated future recoveries for breaches of representations and warranties.

The Company used weighted-average risk free rates ranging from 0% to 5.32% to discount reserves for loss and LAE as of March 31, 2010.

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Net Losses Paid on Financial Guaranty Insurance Contracts

				Three Months Ended March 31,

				2010			2009
				(in thousands)
U.S. RMBS:
	First Lien:
		Prime First lien		$	—		$	—
		Alt-A First lien			13,985			—
		Alt-A Options ARM			16,413			—
		Subprime			869			452

			Total First Lien		31,267			452
	Second Lien:
		CES			20,475			10,265
		HELOC			148,979			51,657

			Total Second Lien		169,454			61,922

Total US RMBS					200,721			62,374
Other structured finance					3,715			(6,005	)
Public Finance					24,455			7,518

			Subtotal		228,891			63,887
Losses paid on consolidated financial guaranty VIEs					(17,983	)		—

			Total	$	210,908		$	63,887

Since the onset of the credit crisis in the fall of 2007 and the ensuing sharp recession, the Company has been intensely involved in risk management activities. It's most significant activities have centered on the residential mortgage sector, where the crisis began, but it is also active in other areas experiencing stress. Residential mortgage loans are loans secured by mortgages on one to four family homes. RMBS may be broadly divided into two categories: (1) first lien transactions, which are generally comprised of loans with mortgages that are senior to any other mortgages on the same property, and (2) second lien transactions, which are comprised of loans with mortgages that are often not senior to other mortgages, but rather are second in priority. Both first lien RMBS and second lien RMBS sometimes include a portion of loan collateral with a different priority than the majority of the collateral. The discussion below addressed modeling assumptions and methods used to estimated expected losses. Detailed performance data by RMBS category is included in "—Exposure to Residential Mortgage Backed Securities."

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Financial Guaranty Insurance Exposure on U.S. RMBS Policies

			March 31, 2010

					BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG Net Par Outstanding
			Total Net Par Outstanding		BIG 1		BIG 2		BIG 3		Total
			(in millions)
First Lien U.S. RMBS:
	Prime First Lien		$	407	$	53	$	49	$	—	$	102
	Alt-A First Lien			2,426		237		1,469		163		1,869
	Alt-A Options ARM			2,773		584		1,782		252		2,618
	Subprime (including net interest margin ("NIMs")			4,882		930		1,524		45		2,499
Second Lien U.S. RMBS:
	CES			1,177		120		531		483		1,134
	HELOC			5,623		29		104		4,114		4,247

		Total	$	17,288	$	1,953	$	5,459	$	5,057	$	12,469

U.S. Second Lien RMBS: CES and HELOCs

The following table shows the Company's key assumptions used in its calculation of estimated expected losses for these types of policies as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009:

Key Assumptions in Base Case Expected Loss Estimates
Second Lien RMBS

HELOC Key Variables	March 31, 2010	December 31, 2009

Plateau conditional default rate ("CDR")	11.5 - 38.0%	10.7 - 40.0%
Final CDR trended down to	0.5 - 3.2%	0.5 - 3.2%
Expected Period until Final CDR(1)	21 months	21 months
Initial conditional prepayment rate ("CPR")	0.4 - 13.4%	1.9 - 14.9%
Final CPR	10%	10%
Loss Severity	95%	95%
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$849 million	$828 million
Initial Draw Rate	0.2 - 4.8%	0.1 - 2.0%

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CES Key Variables	March 31, 2010	December 31, 2009

Plateau CDR	21.5 - 44.2%	21.5 - 44.2%
Final CDR Rate trended down to	2.9 - 8.1%	3.3 - 8.1%
Expected Period until Final CDR achieved	21 months	21 months
Initial CPR	0.8 - 3.6%	0.8 - 3.6%
Final CPR	10%	10%
Loss Severity	95%	95%
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$137 million	$77 million

(1): Represents assumptions for most heavily weighted scenario.

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representations and warranties the Company considered: the credit worthiness of the provider of representations and warranties, the number of breaches found on defaulted loans, the success rate resolving these breaches with the provider of the representations and warranties and the potential amount of time until the recovery is realized. This calculation involved a variety of scenarios which ranged from the Company recovering substantially all of the losses it incurred due to violations of representations and warranties to the Company realizing very limited recoveries. These scenarios were probability weighted in order to determine the recovery incorporated into the Company's reserve estimate. This approach was used for both loans that had already defaulted and those assumed to default in the future. Recoveries were limited to amounts paid or expected to be paid out by the Company.

U.S. First Lien RMBS: Alt-A, Option ARM, Subprime and Prime

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borrowers. A "subprime borrower" is one considered to be a higher risk credit based on credit scores or other risk characteristics. Another type of RMBS transaction is generally referred to as "Alt-A RMBS." The collateral supporting such transactions is comprised of first-lien residential mortgage loans made to "prime" quality borrowers that lack certain ancillary characteristics that would make them prime. When more than 66% of the loans originally included in the pool are mortgage loans with an option to make a minimum payment that has the potential to negatively amortize the loan (i.e., increase the amount of principal owed), the transaction is referred to as an "Option ARMs." Finally, transactions may include loans made to prime borrowers.

The following table shows the Company's liquidation assumptions for various delinquency categories as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009. The liquidation rate is a standard industry

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measure that is used to estimate the number of loans in a given aging category that will default within a specified time period. The Company projects these liquidations over two years.



30 - 59 Days Delinquent
	Alt-A First lien	50	%	50	%
	Alt-A Option ARM	50		50
	Subprime	45		45
60 - 89 Days Delinquent
	Alt-A First lien	65		65
	Alt-A Option ARM	65		65
	Subprime	65		65
90—Bankruptcy
	Alt-A First lien	75		75
	Alt-A Option ARM	75		75
	Subprime	70		70
Foreclosure
	Alt-A First lien	85		85
	Alt-A Option ARM	85		85
	Subprime	85		85
Real Estate Owned
	Alt-A First lien	100		100
	Alt-A Option ARM	100		100
	Subprime	100		100

First Lien U.S. RMBS
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans

	As of March 31, 2010		As of December 31, 2009

	(in millions)
Future Repurchase of Ineligible Loans	$	311.7	$	268.0



Alt-A First lien	60	%	60	%
Alt-A Option ARM	60	%	60	%
Subprime	75	%	70	%

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The performance of the collateral underlying certain of these securitizations has substantially differed from the Company's original expectations. As with the second lien policies, as of March 31, 2010, the Company had performed a detailed review of approximately 4,700 files representing nearly $2.1 billion in outstanding par of defaulted first lien loans underlying insured transactions, and identified a material number of defaulted loans that breach representations and warranties regarding the characteristics of the loans. The Company continues to review new files as new loans default and as new loan files are made available to it. Following negotiation with the sellers and originators of the breaching loans, as of March 31, 2010, the Company had reached agreement to have $30.5 million of first lien loans repurchased. The amount the Company ultimately recovers related to contractual representations and warranties is uncertain and subject to a number of factors including the counterparty's ability to pay, the number and amount of loans determined to have breached representations and warranties and, potentially, negotiated settlements or litigation. As such, the Company's estimate of recoveries is uncertain and actual amounts realized may differ significantly from these estimates. In arriving at the expected recovery from breaches of representations and warranties the Company considered: the credit worthiness of the provider of representations and warranties, the number of breaches found on defaulted loans, the success rate resolving these breaches with the provider of the representations and warranty and the potential amount of time until the recovery is realized. This calculation involved a variety of scenarios which ranged from the Company recovering substantially all of the losses it incurred due to violations of representations and warranties to the Company realizing very limited recoveries. These scenarios were probability weighted in order to determine the recovery incorporated into the Company's reserve estimate. This approach was used for both loans that had already defaulted and those assumed to default in the future. In all cases recoveries were limited to amounts paid or expected to be paid out by the Company.

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The Company modeled sensitivities for first lien transactions by varying its assumptions of how fast an economic recovery was expected to occur. The primary variables that were varied when modeling sensitivities were the amount of time until the CDR returned to its modeled equilibrium, which was defined as 5% of the current CDR, and how quickly the stressed loss severity returned to its long term equilibrium, which was approximately a 20 point reduction in the current severity rate. In a stressed economic environment, assuming a slow recovery rate in the performance of the CDR, whereby the CDR rate steps down in five increments over 11.3 years, and a five year period before severity rates return to their normalized rate, the reserves increase by $31.1 million for Alt-A transactions, $126.9 million for Option ARM transactions and $76.6 million for subprime transactions. Conversely, assuming a faster recovery in the performance of the CDR, where the CDR rate steps down in two increments over 8.1 years, and a three year period before severity rates return to their normalized rate, the reserves decrease by approximately $31.9 million for Alt-A transactions, $121.9 million for Option ARM transactions and $39.9 million for subprime transactions.

"XXX" Life Insurance Transactions

The Company's $2.1 billion in net par of XXX Life Insurance transactions includes $1.8 billion in the financial guaranty direct segment. Of the total, $882.5 million was rated BIG by the Company as of March 31, 2010, and corresponded to two transactions. These two XXX transactions had material amounts of their assets invested in US RMBS transactions.

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Other Sectors and Transactions

The Company continues to closely monitor other sectors and individual transactions it feels warrant the additional attention, including, as of March 31, 2010, its commercial mortgage exposure of $936.2 million of net par, of which $257.8 million was in the financial guaranty direct segment, its trust preferred securities CDOs exposure of $1.1billion, most of which was in the financial guaranty direct segment, , its student loan exposure of $3.7 billion net par, of which $1.3 billion was in the direct segment, and its U.S. health care exposure of $22.4 billion of net par, of which $20.6 billion was in the financial guaranty direct segment.

Amortization of Deferred Acquisition Costs

Acquisition costs associated with insurance and reinsurance contracts, that vary with and are directly related to the production of new business are deferred and then amortized in relation to earned premiums. These costs include direct and indirect expenses such as ceding commissions, and the cost of underwriting and marketing personnel. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the Company had DAC of $244.0 million and $242.0 million, respectively. Net ceding commissions paid or received to primary insurers comprise a significant portion of DAC, constituting 40% and 42% of total DAC as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively. In the direct segment, management uses its judgment in determining which origination related costs should be deferred, as well as the percentage of these costs to be deferred. The Company annually conducts a study to determine which costs and how much acquisition costs should be deferred. Ceding commissions received on premiums the Company cedes to other reinsurers reduce acquisition costs.

Anticipated losses, LAE and the remaining costs of servicing the insured or reinsured business are considered in determining the recoverability of acquisition costs. Acquisition costs associated with credit derivative products are expensed as incurred. When an insured issue is retired early, the remaining related DAC is expensed at that time. Upon the adoption of the new accounting guidance that became effective January 1, 2009 ceding commissions associated with future installment premiums on assumed and ceded business were recorded in DAC.

For the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, acquisition costs incurred were $8.2 million and $23.4 million, respectively. The decrease in 2010 was due primarily to reduced refunding and accelerations in First Quarter 2010 compared with First Quarter 2009 and the elimination of commission expense related to business assumed from the Acquired Companies which is now eliminated as an intercompany expense. AGMH DAC was written off on July 1, 2009 and therefore AGMH does not contribute a significant amount to the amortization of DAC line item on the consolidated statements of operations in First Quarter 2010.

AGMH Acquisition-Related Expenses

In 2010, AGMH Acquisition related expenses were primarily comprised of consulting fees related to integration efforts. In 2009, AGMH Acquisition related expenses were primarily comprised of legal and underwriting fees.

Provision for Income Tax

The Company and its Bermuda subsidiaries are not subject to any income, withholding or capital gains taxes under current Bermuda law. The Company's U.S. and U.K. subsidiaries are subject to income taxes imposed by U.S. and U.K. authorities and file applicable tax returns. The Company's UK subsidiaries are currently not under examination. In addition, AGRO, a Bermuda domiciled company, and AGE, a UK domiciled company, each has elected under Section 953(d) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code to be taxed as a U.S. domestic corporation.

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The U.S. IRS has completed audits of all of the Company's U.S. subsidiaries' federal income tax returns for taxable years through 2001 except for AGMH, which has been audited through 2006. In September 2007, the IRS completed its audit of tax years 2002 through 2004 for Assured Guaranty Overseas US Holdings Inc. ("AGOUS"), which includes Assured Guaranty Overseas US Holdings Inc., AGRO, AGMIC and AG Intermediary Inc. As a result of the audit there were no significant findings and no cash settlements with the IRS. In addition, Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc. ("AGUS") is under IRS audit for tax years 2002 through the date of the initial public offering ("IPO") as part of the audit of ACE Limited ("ACE"). AGUS includes Assured Guaranty US Holdings Inc., AGC and AG Financial Products and were part of the consolidated tax return of a subsidiary of ACE, for years prior to the IPO as part of the audit of ACE. The Company is indemnified by ACE for any potential tax liability associated with the tax examination of AGUS as it relates to years prior to the IPO. AGUS is currently under audit by the IRS for the 2006 through 2008 tax years.

Deferred income tax assets and liabilities are established for the temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse. Such temporary differences relate principally to unrealized gains and losses on investments and credit derivatives, DAC, reserves for losses and LAE, unearned premium reserves, net operating loss carry forwards ("NOLs") and statutory contingency reserves. A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce a deferred tax asset to the amount that in management's opinion is more likely than not to be realized. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the Company had a net deferred income tax asset of $1,132.1 million and $1,158.2 million, respectively. As of March 31, 2010, the Company expects NOL of $231.1 million, which expires in 2029, and alternative minimum tax ("AMT") credits of $27.2 million, which never expires, from its AGMH Acquisition. These amounts are calculated based on projections of taxable losses expected to be filed by Dexia for the period ended June 30, 2009. Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code limits the amounts of NOL and AMT credits the Company may utilize each year. Management believes sufficient future taxable income exists to realize the full benefit of these NOL and AMT amounts.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, AGRO had a standalone NOL of $49.9 million, which is available to offset its future U.S. taxable income. The Company has $29.2 million of this NOL available through 2017 and $20.7 million available through 2023. AGRO's stand alone NOL is not permitted to offset the income of any other members of AGRO's consolidated group. Under applicable accounting rules, the Company is required to establish a valuation allowance for NOLs that the Company believes are more likely than not to expire before being utilized. Management has assessed the likelihood of realization of all of its deferred tax assets. Based on this analysis, management believes it is more likely than not that $20.0 million of AGRO's $49.9 million NOL will not be utilized before it expires and has established a $7.0 million valuation allowance related to the NOL deferred tax asset. Management believes that all other deferred income taxes are more-likely-than-not to be realized. The valuation allowance is subject to considerable judgment, is reviewed quarterly and will be adjusted to the extent actual taxable income differs from estimates of future taxable income that may be used to realize NOLs or capital losses.

For the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009, income tax expense (benefit) was $114.9 million and $14.6 million and the Company's effective tax rate was 26.3% and 14.6%, respectively. The Company's effective tax rates reflect the proportion of income recognized by each of the Company's operating subsidiaries, with U.S. subsidiaries taxed at the U.S. marginal corporate income tax rate of 35%, UK subsidiaries taxed at the UK marginal corporate tax rate of 28%, and no taxes for the Company's Bermuda holding company and subsidiaries. Accordingly, the Company's overall corporate effective tax rate fluctuates based on the distribution of taxable income across these jurisdictions. First Quarter 2010 has income earned primarily by taxable entities, offset by tax-exempt interest, and is the primary reason for the 26.3% effective tax rate. First Quarter 2009 included

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$27.0 million of unrealized gains on credit derivatives, the majority of which is associated with subsidiaries taxed in the U.S., and is the primary reason for the 14.6% effective tax rate.

Financial Guaranty Variable Interest Entities

On January 1, 2010, the Company adopted new accounting guidance as required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board that changed how a company determines when an entity that is insufficiently capitalized or is not controlled through voting (or similar rights) should be consolidated. The new accounting guidance requires the Company to perform an analysis to determine whether its variable interests give it a controlling financial interest in a VIE. This analysis identifies the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity as the enterprise that has both 1) the power to direct the activities of a variable interest entity that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance; and 2) the obligation to absorb losses of the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity or the right to receive benefits from the entity that could potentially be significant to the variable interest entity. Additionally, this new accounting guidance requires an ongoing reassessment of whether the Company is the primary beneficiary of a VIE.

Underwriting Gains (Losses) by Segment

Management uses underwriting gains and losses as the primary measure of each segment's financial performance. The Company manages its business without regards to accounting requirements to consolidate certain VIEs. As a result, underwriting gain or loss includes results of operations as if consolidated VIEs were accounted for as insurance. All segments are reported net of cessions to third party reinsurance.

Underwriting Gain (Loss) by Segment

	Three Months Ended March 31, 2010

	Financial Guaranty Direct			Financial Guaranty Reinsurance			Other			Underwriting Gain (Loss)			Consolidation of VIEs			Total
	(in millions)
Net earned premiums	$	306.6		$	18.4		$	0.6		$	325.6		$	(6.0	)	$	319.6
Realized gains on credit derivatives(1)		55.0			(0.3	)		—			54.7			—			54.7
Other income		(5.1	)		(7.8	)		—			(12.9	)		—			(12.9	)
Loss and loss adjustment (expenses) recoveries		(112.3	)		(28.2	)		—			(140.5	)		10.0			(130.5	)
Incurred losses on credit derivatives		(74.6	)		(1.8	)		—			(76.4	)		—			(76.4	)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs		(3.8	)		(4.3	)		(0.1	)		(8.2	)		—			(8.2	)
Other operating expenses		(49.7	)		(9.4	)		(0.9	)		(60.0	)		—			(60.0	)

Underwriting gain (loss)	$	116.1		$	(33.4	)	$	(0.4	)	$	82.3

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	Three Months Ended March 31, 2009

	Financial Guaranty Direct			Financial Guaranty Reinsurance			Other			Total
	(in millions)
Net earned premiums	$	101.5		$	46.2		$	0.7		$	148.4
Realized gains on credit derivatives(1)		28.8			0.9			—			29.7
Other income		0.8			0.1			—			0.9
Loss and loss adjustment (expenses) recoveries		(11.7	)		(36.8	)		(31.3	)		(79.8	)
Incurred losses on credit derivatives		(1.4	)		0.4			—			(1.0	)
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs		(6.2	)		(17.1	)		(0.1	)		(23.4	)
Other operating expenses		(20.6	)		(6.7	)		(0.7	)		(28.0	)

Underwriting gain (loss)	$	91.2		$	(13.0	)	$	(31.4	)	$	46.8

(1): Comprised of premiums and ceding commissions.

Reconciliation of Underwriting Gain (Loss)
to Income (Loss) before Income Taxes

	Three Months Ended March 31,

	2010			2009
	(in millions)
Total underwriting gain	$	82.3		$	46.8
Net investment income		84.3			43.6
Net realized investment gains (losses)		9.4			(17.1	)
Unrealized gains on credit derivatives, excluding incurred losses on credit derivatives		300.5			18.9
Fair value gain (loss) on committed capital securities		(1.3	)		19.7
Financial guaranty VIE net revenues and expenses		(10.6	)		—
Other income		1.8			—
AGMH acquisition-related expenses		(4.0	)		(4.6	)
Interest expense		(25.1	)		(5.8	)
Other operating expenses		(4.4	)		(1.4	)
Elimination of insurance accounts for VIE		4.0			—

Income before provision for income taxes	$	436.9		$	100.1

For First Quarter 2010, the financial guaranty direct segment was the largest contributor to underwriting gain (loss). The AGMH Acquisition was the most important contributing factor to the change in the financial guaranty direct and financial guaranty reinsurance segments. AGM is one of AG Re's largest ceding companies and is included in the financial guaranty direct segment in 2010. In 2009, AGM's cessions to AG Re are included in the reinsurance segment. The financial guaranty direct segment consists of the Company's primary financial guaranty insurance business and credit derivative business net of any cessions. AGMH's results are included in the financial guaranty direct segment effective July 1, 2009.

The Company's financial results include two principal business segments: financial guaranty direct and financial guaranty reinsurance. Management uses underwriting gains and losses as the primary measure of each segment's financial performance.

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Financial guaranty direct insurance provides an unconditional and irrevocable guaranty that protects the holder of a financial debt obligation against non-payment of scheduled principal and interest payments when due. Upon an obligor's default on scheduled principal or interest payments due on the debt obligation, the Company is required under the financial guaranty or credit derivative contract to pay the investor or swap counterparty the principal or interest shortfall due. Financial guaranty insurance may be issued to all of the investors of the guaranteed series or tranche of a municipal bond or structured finance security at the time of issuance of those obligations or it may be issued in the secondary market to only specific individual holders of such obligations who purchase the Company's credit protection.

As an alternative to traditional financial guaranty insurance, credit protection relating to a particular security or obligor may also be provided through a credit derivative contract, such as a CDS. Under the terms of a credit default contract or swap, the seller of credit protection agrees to make a specified payment to the buyer of credit protection if one or more specified credit events occurs with respect to a reference obligation or entity. In general, the credit events specified in the Company's credit derivative contracts are for interest and principal defaults on the reference obligation. One difference between credit derivatives and traditional primary financial guaranty insurance is that credit default protection is typically provided to a particular buyer rather than to all holders of the reference obligation. As a result, the Company's rights and remedies under a credit derivative contract may be different and more limited than on a financial guaranty of an entire issuance. Credit derivatives may be preferred by some investors, however, because they generally offer the investor ease of execution and standardized terms as well as more favorable accounting or capital treatment.

In its financial guaranty reinsurance business, the Company assumes all or a portion of risk undertaken by other insurance companies that provide financial guaranty protection. The financial guaranty reinsurance business consists of public finance and structured finance reinsurance lines. Premiums on public finance are typically written upfront and premiums on structured finance are typically written on an installment basis. Under a reinsurance agreement, the reinsurer receives a premium and, in exchange, agrees to indemnify the primary insurer, called the ceding company, for part or all of the liability of the ceding company under one or more financial guaranty insurance policies that the ceding company has issued.

Other includes mortgage guaranty insurance which the Company has not been active in writing new business in this segment since 2007 and other lines in which the Company had participated in prior to its 2004 IPO.

Financial Guaranty Direct Segment

Financial guaranty direct segment underwriting gains increased 27.3% in First Quarter 2010 due primarily to increased premiums and realized gains on credit derivatives due to the AGMH Acquisition, offset in part by increased loss and LAE on RMBS exposures and losses incurred on credit derivatives. The financial guaranty direct segment underwriting gains include $31.1 million in losses on foreign exchange revaluation of premium receivables and gains related to the reassumptions of a public finance book of business. In the future, the AGMH portfolio of insured structured finance obligations, including credit derivatives, will generate a declining stream of premium earnings and realized gains on credit derivatives due to AGMH's focus on underwriting public financial obligations.

PVP in the direct segment declined 39.8% to $78.8 million in First Quarter 2010. The current economic environment has had a significant impact on the demand in both the global structured finance and international infrastructure finance markets for financial guaranties, and it is uncertain when or if demand for financial guaranties will return. The Company has witnessed limited new issuance activity in many markets in which the Company was previously active.

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Financial Guaranty Reinsurance Segment

Financial guaranty reinsurance segment underwriting loss increased to $33.4 million from $13.0 million due primarily to (1) the reallocation of AGRe's assumed book of AGMH business to the financial guaranty direct segment, (2) the normal runoff of business, (3) the decrease in new business opportunities and (4) losses related to foreign exchange revaluation of premiums receivable.

There was no PVP in 2010 in the financial guaranty reinsurance segment, however, the Company continues to earn premiums on its existing book of business.

Exposure to Residential Mortgage Backed Securities

The Company's Surveillance personnel are responsible for monitoring and reporting on all transactions in the insured portfolio. The primary objective of the surveillance process is to monitor trends and changes in transaction credit quality, to detect any deterioration in credit quality and to take such remedial actions as may be necessary or appropriate to mitigate loss. All transactions in the insured portfolio are risk rated, and Surveillance personnel are responsible for recommending adjustments to these ratings to reflect changes in transaction credit quality. In assessing the credit quality of its insured portfolio, the Company takes into consideration a variety of factors. For RMBS exposures, such factors include the amount of credit support or subordination benefiting the Company's exposure, delinquency and loss trends on the underlying collateral, the extent to which the exposure has amortized and the year in which it was insured.

The Company is also staffed with Work-out personnel who are responsible for managing work-out and loss situations. They develop strategies designed to enhance the ability of the Company to enforce its contractual rights and remedies and to mitigate its losses, engage in negotiation discussions with transaction participants and, when necessary, manage the Company's litigation proceedings.

The tables below provide information on the risk ratings and certain other risk characteristics of the Company's RMBS, subprime RMBS, CDOs of ABS and Prime exposures as of March 31, 2010.

Internal ratings in the tables below represent the Company's rating scale which is similar to that used by the nationally recognized rating agencies. The super senior category, which is not generally used by rating agencies, is used by the Company in instances where its AAA-rated exposure has additional credit enhancement due to either (1) the existence of another security rated AAA that is subordinated to the Company's exposure or (2) the Company's exposure benefits from a different form of credit enhancement that would pay any claims first in the event that any of the exposures incurs a loss and such credit enhancement, in management's opinion, causes the Company's attachment point to be materially above the AAA attachment point.

Net par outstanding in the following tables are based on values as of March 31, 2010. All performance information such as pool factor, subordination, cumulative losses and delinquency is based on March 31, 2010 information obtained from Intex, Bloomberg, and/or provided by the trustee and may be subject to restatement or correction.

Pool factor in the following tables is the percentage of the current collateral balance divided by the original collateral balance of the transactions at inception.

Subordination in the following tables represents the sum of subordinate tranches and over-collateralization, expressed as a percentage of total transaction size and does not include any benefit from excess interest collections that may be used to absorb losses. Many of the CES transactions insured by the Company have unique structures whereby the collateral may be written down for losses without a corresponding write-down of the obligations insured by the Company. Many of these transactions are currently under-collateralized, with the principal amount of collateral being less than the principal amount of the obligation insured by the Company. The Company is not required

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to pay principal shortfalls until legal maturity (rather than making timely principal payments), and takes the under-collateralization into account when estimating expected losses for these transactions.

Cumulative losses in the following tables are defined as net charge-offs on the underlying loan collateral divided by the original pool balance.

60+ day delinquencies in the following tables are defined as loans that are greater than 60 days delinquent and all loans that are in foreclosure, bankruptcy or real estate owned ("REO") divided by net par outstanding.

U.S. Prime First Lien in the tables below include primarily prime first lien plus an insignificant amount of other miscellaneous MBS transactions.

Distribution of U.S. RMBS by Rating and by Segment as of March 31, 2010

Ratings(1):		Direct Net Par Outstanding				Reinsurance Net Par Outstanding				Total Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	0.0	%	$	—	0.0	%	$	—	0.0	%
AAA			3,379	12.1			16	3.8			3,395	12.0
AA			2,228	8.0			45	10.8			2,273	8.0
A			2,089	7.5			61	14.7			2,150	7.6
BBB			2,838	10.2			64	15.5			2,902	10.3
BIG			17,342	62.2			228	55.2			17,570	62.1

	Total exposures	$	27,876	100.0	%	$	414	100.0	%	$	28,290	100.0	%

Distribution of U.S. RMBS by Rating and Type of Exposure as of March 31, 2010

Ratings(1):		Prime First Lien		CES		HELOC		Alt-A First Lien		Alt-A Option ARMs		Subprime First Lien		NIMs		Total Net Par Outstanding

		(in millions)
Super senior		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
AAA			164		0		464		111		155		2,500		—		3,395
AA			31		41		516		266		31		1,388		—		2,273
A			24		2		230		109		146		1,640		—		2,150
BBB			85		—		178		1,286		86		1,238		31		2,902
BIG			643		1,214		4,252		5,173		3,342		2,777		167		17,570

	Total exposures	$	948	$	1,258	$	5,639	$	6,945	$	3,759	$	9,543	$	197	$	28,290

Distribution of U.S. RMBS by Year Insured and Type of Exposure as of March 31, 2010

Year insured:		Prime First Lien		CES		HELOC		Alt-A First Lien		Alt-A Option ARMs		Subprime First Lien		NIMs		Total Net Par Outstanding

		(in millions)
2004 and prior		$	69	$	2	$	414	$	152	$	58	$	1,713	$	—	$	2,408
2005			186		—		1,221		750		177		448		13		2,795
2006			152		466		1,814		544		999		4,168		87		8,230
2007			541		789		2,191		3,318		2,400		3,124		98		12,461
2008			—		—		—		2,181		125		91		—		2,397

	Total exposures	$	948	$	1,258	$	5,639	$	6,945	$	3,759	$	9,543	$	197	$	28,290

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Distribution of U.S. RMBS by Rating and Year Insured as of March 31, 2010

Year insured:	Super Senior			AAA Rated			AA Rated			A Rated			BBB Rated			BIG Rated			Total

	(dollars in millions)
2004 and prior	$	—		$	1,521		$	91		$	138		$	224		$	434		$	2,408
2005		—			244			118			100			527			1,807			2,795
2006		—			1,316			1,100			1,767			430			3,617			8,230
2007		—			315			753			21			778			10,595			12,461
2008		—			—			212			125			943			1,117			2,397

	$	—		$	3,395		$	2,273		$	2,150		$	2,902		$	17,570		$	28,290

% of total		0.0	%		12.0	%		8.0	%		7.6	%		10.3	%		62.1	%		100.0	%

Distribution of Financial Guaranty Direct U.S. RMBS by Rating and
Type of Exposure as of March 31, 2010

Ratings:		Prime First Lien		CES		HELOC		Alt-A First Lien		Alt-A Option ARMs		Subprime First Lien		NIMs		Total Net Par Outstanding

		(in millions)
Super senior		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
AAA			156		—		464		107		155		2,497		—		3,379
AA			2		41		510		263		31		1,380		—		2,228
A			1		—		222		100		145		1,621		—		2,089
BBB			84		—		138		1,273		85		1,228		31		2,838
BIG			640		1,202		4,119		5,164		3,325		2,726		167		17,342

	Total exposures	$	883	$	1,243	$	5,454	$	6,906	$	3,740	$	9,453	$	197	$	27,876

Distribution of Financial Guaranty Direct U.S. RMBS by Year Insured as of March 31, 2010

Year insured:		Prime First Lien		CES		HELOC		Alt-A First Lien		Alt-A Option ARMs		Subprime First Lien		NIMs		Total Net Par Outstanding

		(in millions)
2004 and prior		$	7	$	—	$	321	$	116	$	57	$	1,638	$	—	$	2,140
2005			183		—		1,161		748		167		447		13		2,717
2006			152		454		1,781		544		991		4,160		87		8,170
2007			541		789		2,191		3,318		2,400		3,124		98		12,461
2008			—		—		—		2,181		125		83		—		2,389

	Total exposures	$	883	$	1,243	$	5,454	$	6,906	$	3,740	$	9,453	$	197	$	27,876

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Distribution of Financial Guaranty Direct U.S. RMBS Net Par Outstanding by Rating and
Year Insured as of March 31, 2010

Year insured:	Super Senior			AAA Rated			AA Rated			A Rated			BBB Rated			BIG Rated			Total

	(dollars in millions)
2004 and prior	$	—		$	1,505		$	46		$	76		$	162		$	350		$	2,140
2005		—			244			118			100			524			1,731			2,717
2006		—			1,316			1,100			1,767			430			3,557			8,170
2007		—			315			753			21			778			10,595			12,461
2008		—			—			212			125			943			1,109			2,389

	$	—		$	3,379		$	2,228		$	2,089		$	2,838		$	17,342		$	27,876

% of total		0.0	%		12.1	%		8.0	%		7.5	%		10.2	%		62.2	%		100.0	%

The Company has not insured any U.S. RMBS transactions since June 2008.

Distribution of Financial Guaranty Direct U.S. Mortgage-Backed Securities
Insured January 1, 2005 or Later by Exposure Type, Average Pool Factor, Subordination,
Cumulative Losses and 60+ Day Delinquencies as of March 31, 2010

U.S. Prime First Lien

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	183	60.3	%	5.2	%	0.6	%	7.3	%	6
2006		152	69.4		7.8		0.0		12.0		1
2007		541	72.9		10.5		1.7		11.9		1
2008		—	—		—		—		—		—

	$	876	69.7	%	8.9	%	1.2	%	10.9	%	8

U.S. CES

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding		Pool Factor

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	—	$	—		—	%	—	%	—	%	—
2006		454		25.4		—		52.1		17.0		2
2007		789		32.2		—		55.7		14.5		10
2008		—		—		—		—		—		—

	$	1,243		29.7	%	0.0	%	54.3	%	15.5	%	12

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U.S. HELOC

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	1,161	23.9	%	2.2	%	11.6	%	12.8	%	6
2006		1,781	41.7		2.0		23.2		16.6		7
2007		2,191	54.9		3.5		22.5		8.5		9
2008		—	—		—		—		—		—

	$	5,132	43.3	%	2.7	%	20.3	%	12.3	%	22

U.S. Alt-A First Lien

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	748	46.0	%	12.8	%	3.7	%	19.8	%	21
2006		544	55.0		2.2		9.9		40.3		7
2007		3,318	67.7		10.2		6.1		35.9		12
2008		2,181	62.8		28.5		6.5		30.9		5

	$	6,790	62.7	%	15.7	%	6.3	%	32.9	%	45

U.S. Alt-A Option ARMs

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	167	33.7	%	11.5	%	6.3	%	41.1	%	4
2006		991	62.4		7.9		7.8		52.2		7
2007		2,400	69.6		9.5		7.5		42.4		11
2008		125	69.8		49.5		5.2		35.6		1

	$	3,683	66.1	%	10.5	%	7.5	%	44.7	%	23

U.S. Subprime First Lien

Year insured:	Net Par Outstanding

	(dollars in millions)
2005	$	447	36.6	%	50.6	%	4.5	%	42.2	%	7
2006		4,160	27.8		60.7		11.8		45.4		4
2007		3,124	63.5		28.5		10.3		51.8		13
2008		83	74.8		34.8		4.5		33.7		1

	$	7,815	43.1	%	47.0	%	10.7	%	47.6	%	25

The Company has not insured any U.S. RMBS transactions since June 2008.

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Distribution of Financial Guaranty Direct U.S. Mortgage Backed Securities Insured
January 1, 2005 or Later by Exposure Type, Internal Rating, Average Pool Factor , Subordination,
Cumulative Losses and 60+ Day Delinquencies as of March 31, 2010

U.S. Prime First Lien

Ratings:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			152	69.4		7.8		—		12.0		1
AA			—	—		—		—		—		—
A			—	—		—		—		—		—
BBB			84	59.7		3.8		0.3		4.3		3
BIG			640	71.0		9.9		1.6		11.6		4

	Total exposures	$	876	69.7	%	8.9	%	1.2	%	10.9	%	8

U.S. CES

Ratings:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			—	—		—		—		—		—
AA			41	65.0		—		7.8		3.2		1
A			—	—		—		—		—		—
BBB			—	—		—		—		—		—
BIG			1,202	28.5		—		55.9		15.9		11

	Total exposures	$	1,243	29.7	%	—	%	54.3	%	15.5	%	12

U.S. HELOC

Ratings:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			431	76.1		7.9		0.5		1.1		3
AA			510	69.6		10.6		7.1		3.8		2
A			222	65.2		—		5.9		3.3		1
BBB			138	28.2		16.1		7.5		12.1		1
BIG			3,831	35.4		0.7		25.6		15.2		15

	Total exposures	$	5,132	43.3	%	2.7	%	20.3	%	12.3	%	22

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U.S. Alt-A First Lien

Rating:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			20	16.1		45.5		5.8		22.7		2
AA			251	61.0		47.3		9.0		36.5		2
A			100	36.2		27.6		3.9		24.7		1
BBB			1,256	59.5		21.6		5.1		26.8		6
BIG			5,164	64.3		12.4		6.5		34.4		34

	Total exposures	$	6,790	62.7	%	15.7	%	6.3	%	32.9	%	45

U.S. Alt-A Option ARMs

Ratings:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			155	66.5		3.6		9.1		53.5		1
AA			—	—		—		—		—		—
A			133	68.4		47.9		5.2		35.7		2
BBB			70	41.3		21.6		3.4		26.5		2
BIG			3,325	66.5		9.1		7.5		45.1		18

	Total exposures	$	3,683	66.1	%	10.5	%	7.5	%	44.7	%	23

U.S. Subprime First Lien

Ratings:		Net Par Outstanding

		(dollars in millions)
Super senior		$	—	—	%	—	%	—	%	—	%	—
AAA			1,116	26.8		63.1		11.1		46.3		5
AA			1,380	30.1		57.3		10.8		43.5		2
A			1,557	27.5		61.3		12.2		45.6		1
BBB			1,097	42.8		41.8		9.6		42.1		7
BIG			2,664	65.9		28.6		10.1		53.9		10

	Total exposures	$	7,815	43.1	%	47.0	%	10.7	%	47.6	%	25

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Summary of Relationships with Monolines

The tables below summarize the exposure to each financial guaranty monoline insurer by exposure category and the underlying ratings of the Company's insured risks.

Summary of Relationships with Monolines

		As of March 31, 2010

		Insured Portfolios
		Assumed Par Outstanding		Second-to-Pay Insured Par Outstanding		Ceded Par Outstanding		Investment Portfolio
		(in millions)
Radian Asset Assurance Inc. ("Radian")		$	—	$	85	$	23,452	$	1.5
RAM Re			24		—		14,221		—
Syncora.			947		2,904		4,127		15.8
ACA			2		19		971		—
FGIC			3,895		3,627		256		21.9
MBIA			13,972		12,487		211		1,036.1
Ambac			29,653		8,784		110		759.8
CIFG			12,734		265		73		22.3
Multiple owner			1,754		2,829		—		—

	Total	$	62,981	$	31,000	$	43,421	$	1,857.4

Second-to-pay insured par outstanding represents transactions we have insured on a second-to-pay basis that were previously insured by other monolines. The Company underwrites such transactions based on the underlying insured obligation without regard to the primary insurer.

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the segregated account in order to facilitate an orderly run-off and/or settlement of those liabilities. In accordance with statutory accounting requirements and U.S. insurance laws and regulations, in order for the Company to receive credit for liabilities ceded to reinsurers domiciled outside of the U.S., such reinsurers must secure their liabilities to the Company. Most of the unauthorized reinsurers in the table above post collateral for the benefit of the Company in an amount at least equal to the sum of their ceded unearned premiums reserve, loss reserves and contingency reserves calculated on a statutory basis of accounting. In the case of CIFG, included in "Other," and Radian, which are authorized reinsurers and, therefore, are not required to post security, their collateral equals or exceeds their ceded statutory loss reserves. Collateral may be in the form of letters of credit or trust accounts. The total collateral posted by all non-affiliated reinsurers as of March 31, 2010 exceeds $1.17 billion.

Securities within the investment portfolio that are wrapped by monolines may decline in value based on the rating of the monoline.

The table below presents the insured par outstanding categorized by rating as of March 31, 2010:

Insured Par Outstanding
As of March 31, 2010(1)

		Public Finance										Structured Finance

		AAA		AA		A		BBB		BIG		AAA		AA		A		BBB		BIG		Total
		(in millions)
Radian.		$	—	$	—	$	14	$	49	$	20	$	2	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	85
Syncora			—		—		448		964		—		312		347		125		329		379		2,904
ACA			—		13		—		3		3		—		—		—		—		—		19
FGIC			—		171		1,172		879		—		911		200		178		28		88		3,627
MBIA			77		3,147		5,468		1,522		30		—		1,524		42		672		5		12,487
Ambac			18		2,641		3,155		1,220		252		352		63		318		345		420		8,784
CIFG.			—		11		69		140		45		—		—		—		—		—		265
Multiple owner			864		2		1,963		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		2,829

	Total	$	959	$	5,985	$	12,289	$	4,777	$	350	$	1,577	$	2,134	$	663	$	1,374	$	892	$	31,000

(1): Assured Guaranty's internal rating.

Non-GAAP Measures

Management uses non-GAAP financial measures in its analysis of the Company's results of operations and communicates such non-GAAP measures to assist analysts and investors in evaluating Assured Guaranty's financial results. This presentation is consistent with how Assured Guaranty's management, analysts and investors evaluate Assured Guaranty financial results and is comparable to estimates published by analysts in their research reports on Assured Guaranty.

Operating income

Operating income is a non-GAAP financial measure defined as net income (loss) attributable to AGL (which excludes noncontrolling interest in consolidated VIEs) adjusted for the following:

1): Elimination of the after-tax realized gains (losses) on the Company's investment portfolios;
2): Elimination of the after-tax non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains (losses) on credit derivatives accounted for as derivatives, which is the amount in excess of the present value of the expected estimated economic credit losses;

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3): Elimination of the after-tax fair value gains (losses) on the Company's CCS; and
4): Elimination of after-tax non-economic fair value adjustments and net interest margin of consolidated financial guaranty VIEs.

Management believes that operating income is a useful measure for management, investors and analysts because the presentation of operating income clarifies the understanding of the Company's results of operations by highlighting the underlying profitability of its business. Realized gains and losses on the Company's investment portfolios are excluded from operating income because the timing and amount of realized gains and losses are not directly related to the Company's insurance businesses. Non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains and losses on credit derivatives as well as fair value gains and losses on the Company's committed capital securities and fair value adjustments and net interest margin of financial guaranty VIEs are excluded from operating income because these gains and losses do not result in an economic gain or loss and are heavily affected by, and fluctuate, in part, according to changes in market interest rates, credit spreads and other factors. Operating income should not be viewed as a substitute for net income (loss) determined in accordance with GAAP.

Adjusted Book Value

ABV is a non-GAAP financial measure calculated as shareholders' equity attributable to AGL (which excludes noncontrolling interest in consolidated entities) adjusted for the following:

1): Elimination of after-tax non-economic fair value adjustments of consolidated financial guaranty VIEs;
2): Elimination of the after-tax non-credit impairment unrealized fair value gains (losses) on credit derivatives accounted for as derivatives, which is the amount in excess of the present value of the expected estimated economic credit losses;
3): Elimination of the after-tax fair value gains (losses) on the Company's CCS;
4): Elimination of the after-tax unrealized gains (losses) on the Company's investment portfolios, recorded as a component of accumulated comprehensive income, excluding foreign exchange revaluation;
5): Elimination of after-tax DAC;
6): Addition of the after-tax net present value of estimated future credit derivative revenue, net of reinsurance, ceding commissions and premium taxes in excess of expected losses, discounted at 6% and the addition of the after-ax value of net unearned revenue on credit derivatives; and
7): Addition of the after-tax value of the net unearned premium reserve on financial guaranty contracts in excess of net expected loss to be expensed;

Management believes that adjusted book value is a useful measure for management, investors and analysts because the calculation of adjusted book value permits an evaluation of the net present value of the Company's in force premiums and shareholders' equity. The premiums included in adjusted book value will be earned in future periods, but may differ materially from the estimated amounts used in determining current adjusted book value due to changes in market interest rates, foreign exchange rates, refinancing or refunding activity, prepayment speeds, policy changes or terminations, credit defaults and other factors. This measure should not be viewed as a substitute for shareholders' equity attributable to AGL determined in accordance with GAAP.

PVP or present value of new business production

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derivative contracts written in the current period, discounted at 6%. Management believes that PVP is a useful measure for management, investors and analysts because it permits the evaluation of the value of new business production for Assured Guaranty by taking into account the value of estimated future installment premiums on all new contracts underwritten in a reporting period, whether in insurance or credit derivative contract form, which GAAP gross premiums written and the net credit derivative premiums received and receivable portion of net realized gains and other settlement on credit derivatives ("Credit Derivative Revenues") do not adequately measure. For purposes of the PVP calculation, management discounts estimated future installment premiums on insurance contracts at 6%, while under GAAP, these amounts are discounted at a risk free rate. Additionally, under GAAP, management records future installment premiums on financial guaranty insurance contracts covering non-homogeneous pools of assets based on the contractual term of the transaction, whereas for PVP purposes, management records an estimate of the future installment premiums the Company expects to receive, which may be based upon a shorter period of time than the contractual term of the transaction. Actual future net earned or written premiums and Credit Derivative Revenues may differ from PVP due to factors including, but not limited to, prepayments, amortizations, refundings, contract terminations or defaults that may or may not result from changes in market interest rates, foreign exchange rates, refinancing or refundings, prepayment speeds, policy changes or terminations, credit defaults or other factors. PVP should not be viewed as a substitute for gross written premiums determined in accordance with GAAP.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity Requirements and Sources

AGL

AGL's liquidity is largely dependent upon: (1) the ability of its operating subsidiaries to pay dividends or make other payments to AGL and (2) its access to external financings. AGL's liquidity requirements include the payment of operating expenses, interest on debt and dividends on common shares. AGL may also require liquidity to make periodic capital investments in its operating subsidiaries. In the ordinary course of business, the Company evaluates its liquidity needs and capital resources in light of holding company expenses and dividend policy, as well as rating agency considerations. Management believes that AGL will have sufficient liquidity to satisfy its needs over the next twelve months, including the ability to pay dividends on AGL common shares. Total cash paid in the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009 for dividends to shareholders was $8.3 million, or $0.045 per common share, and $4.1 million, or $0.045 per common share, respectively. The Company anticipates that for the next twelve months, amounts paid by AGL's operating subsidiaries as dividends will be a major source of its liquidity. It is possible that AGL or its subsidiaries in the future may need to seek additional external debt or equity financing in order to meet its obligations. External sources of financing may or may not be available to the Company, and if available, the cost of such financing may be higher than the Company's current level.

Operating Subsidiaries

Liquidity at the Company's operating subsidiaries is used to pay operating expenses, claims, including payment obligations in respect of credit derivatives, including collateral postings, reinsurance premiums and dividends to AGUS and AGMH for debt service and dividends to AGL, as well as, where appropriate, to make capital investments in their own subsidiaries. In addition, certain of the operating companies may be required to post additional collateral in connection with credit derivatives and reinsurance transactions. Management believes that its subsidiaries' liquidity needs generally can be met from current cash/short-term investments and operating cash flow, including GWP as well as investment income and scheduled maturities and paydowns from their respective investment portfolios.

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Beyond the next 12 months, the ability of the operating subsidiaries to declare and pay dividends may be influenced by a variety of factors, including market conditions, insurance regulations and rating agency capital requirements and general economic conditions.

Insurance policies the Company issued provide, in general, that payments of principal, interest and other amounts insured may not be accelerated by the holder of the obligation. Amounts paid by the Company therefore are typically in accordance with the obligation's original payment schedule or, at the Company's option, may be on an accelerated basis. Insurance policies guaranteeing payments under CDS may provide for acceleration of amounts due upon the occurrence of certain credit events, subject to single risk limits specified in the insurance laws of the State of New York (the "New York Insurance Law"). These constraints prohibit or limit acceleration of certain claims according to Article 69 of the New York Insurance Law and serve to reduce the Company's liquidity requirements.

Payments made in settlement of the Company's obligations arising from its insured portfolio may, and often do, vary significantly from year-to-year, depending primarily on the frequency and severity of payment defaults and whether the Company chooses to accelerate its payment obligations in order to mitigate future losses.

The terms of the Company's CDS contracts generally are modified from standard CDS contract forms approved by International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") in order to provide for payments on a scheduled basis and to replicate the terms of a traditional financial guaranty insurance policy. Some contracts the Company enters into as the credit protection seller, however, utilize standard ISDA settlement mechanics of cash settlement (i.e., a process to value the loss of market value of a reference obligation) or physical settlement (i.e., delivery of the reference obligation against payment of principal by the protection seller) in the event of a "credit event," as defined in the relevant contract. Cash settlement or physical settlement generally requires the payment of a larger amount, prior to the maturity of the reference obligation, than would settlement on a "pay-as-you-go" basis, under which the Company would be required to pay scheduled interest shortfalls during the term of the reference obligation and scheduled principal shortfall only at the final maturity of the reference obligation. The Company's CDS contracts also generally provide that if events of default or termination events specified in the CDS documentation were to occur, the non-defaulting or the non-affected party, which may be either the Company or the counterparty, depending upon the circumstances, may decide to terminate the CDS contract prior to maturity. The Company may be required to make a termination payment to its swap counterparty upon such termination. See also "—Sensitivity to Rating Agency Actions in Reinsurance Business and Insured CDS Portfolio."

At March 31, 2010, there was $84.5 billion in net par outstanding for pooled corporate CDS. At that date, approximately 71% of the obligations insured by the Company in CDS form referenced funded CDOs and 29% referenced synthetic CDOs. Potential acceleration of claims with respect to CDS obligations occur with funded CDOs and synthetic CDOs, as described below:

•: Funded CDOs: The Company has credit exposure to the senior tranches of funded corporate CDOs. The senior tranches are typically rated Triple-A at the time of inception. While the majority of these exposures obligate the Company to pay only shortfalls in scheduled interest and principal at final maturity, in a limited number of cases the Company has agreed to physical settlement following a credit event. In these limited circumstances, the Company has adhered to internal limits within applicable statutory single risk constraints. In these transactions, the credit events giving rise to a payment obligation are (a) the bankruptcy of the special purpose issuer or (b) the failure by the issuer to make a scheduled payment of interest or principal pursuant to the referenced senior debt security.
•: Synthetic CDOs: In the case of pooled corporate synthetic CDOs, where the Company's credit exposure was typically set at "Super Triple-A" levels at the time of inception, the Company is exposed to credit losses of a synthetic pool of corporate obligors following the exhaustion of a

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deductible. In these transactions, losses are typically calculated using ISDA cash settlement mechanics. As a result, the Company's exposures to the individual corporate obligors within any synthetic transaction are constrained by the New York Insurance Law single risk limits. In these transactions, the credit events giving rise to a payment obligation are generally (a) the reference entity's bankruptcy; (b) failure by the reference entity to pay its debt obligations; and (c) in certain transactions, the restructuring of the reference entity's debt obligations. The Company generally would not be required to make a payment until aggregate credit losses exceed the designated deductible threshold and only as each incremental default occurs. Once the deductible is exhausted, each further credit event would give rise to cash settlements.

Insurance Company Restrictions

The insurance company subsidiaries' ability to pay dividends depends, among other things, upon their financial condition, results of operations, cash requirements, and compliance with rating agency requirements, and is also subject to restrictions contained in the insurance laws and related regulations of their states of domicile.

Under Maryland's insurance law, AGC may pay dividends out of earned surplus in any twelve-month period in an aggregate amount not exceeding the lesser of (a) 10% of policyholders' surplus or (b) net investment income at the preceding December 31 (including net investment income which has not already been paid out as dividends for the three calendar years prior to the preceding calendar year) without prior approval of the Maryland Commissioner of Insurance. As of March 31, 2010, the amount available for distribution from AGC during 2010 with notice to, but without prior approval of, the Maryland Commissioner was approximately $108.0 million. Dividends paid by a U.S. company to a Bermuda holding company presently are subject to a 30% withholding tax. The amount available at AG Re to pay dividends or make a distribution of contributed surplus in 2010 in compliance with Bermuda law is $1,084.8 million. However, any distribution which results in a reduction of 15% or more of AG Re's total statutory capital, as set out in its previous years' financial statements, would require the prior approval of the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

Under the New York Insurance Law, AGM may pay dividends out of earned surplus, provided that, together with all dividends declared or distributed by AGM during the preceding 12 months, the dividends do not exceed the lesser of (a) 10% of policyholders' surplus as of its last statement filed with the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York (the "New York Superintendent") or (b) adjusted net investment income (net investment income at the preceding December 31 plus net investment income which has not already been paid out as dividends for the three calendar years prior to the preceding calendar year) during this period. Based on AGM's statutory statements for 2009, the maximum amount available for payment of dividends by AGM without regulatory approval over the 12 months following March 31, 2010 was approximately $81.0 million. However, in connection with the AGMH Acquisition, the Company has committed to the New York Insurance Department that AGM will not pay any dividends for a period of two years from the date of the AGMH Acquisition without the written approval of the New York Insurance Department.

Cash Flows

Net cash flows provided by (used in) operating activities were $(236.6) million and $167.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009 respectively. The negative operating cash flow in 2010 was due primarily to paid losses and lower new premium originations, higher payments for bonuses and employee related costs, and higher tax payments for 2009 which included consolidated results of AGMH. In 2009, the Company had higher U.S. public finance originations and lower claim payments.

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Net cash flows provided by (used in) investing activities were $346.6 million and ($151.1) million during the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009 respectively. These investing activities were primarily net sales (purchases) of fixed maturity and short-term investment securities. In addition, the 2010 amount included $60.7 million of proceeds from assets of consolidated VIEs.

Net cash flows used in financing activities were $63.4million and $8.7 million during the three months ended March 31, 2010 and 2009 respectively. The increase in 2010 compared to 2009 was mainly due to the inclusion of consolidated VIEs in 2010.

Commitments and Contingencies

Leases and Contractual Obligations

AGL and its subsidiaries are party to various lease agreements. As of March 31, 2010 our future cash payments associated with contractual obligations pursuant to our operating leases for office space have not materially changed since December 31, 2009.

Long-Term Debt Obligation and Notes Payable

The principal and carrying values of the Company's long-term debt and notes payable were as follows:

			As of March 31, 2010				As of December 31, 2009

			Principal		Carrying Value		Principal		Carrying Value
			(in thousands)
AGUS:
	7.0% Senior Notes		$	200,000	$	197,491	$	200,000	$	197,481
	8.50% Senior Notes			172,500		170,356		172,500		170,137
	Series A Enhanced Junior Subordinated Debentures			150,000		149,803		150,000		149,796

	Total AGUS			522,500		517,650		522,500		517,414
AGMH:
	6⁷/8% QUIBS			100,000		66,752		100,000		66,661
	6.25% Notes			230,000		134,176		230,000		133,917
	5.60% Notes			100,000		52,660		100,000		52,534
	Junior Subordinated Debentures			300,000		148,255		300,000		146,836

	Total AGMH			730,000		401,843		730,000		399,948

		Total long-term debt		1,252,500		919,493		1,252,500		917,362
Notes Payable				133,782		142,403		140,145		149,051

		Total	$	1,386,252	$	1,061,893	$	1,392,645	$	1,066,413

Debt Issued by AGUS

(a): 7.0% Senior Notes. On May 18, 2004, AGUS issued $200.0 million of 7.0% senior notes due 2034 ("7.0% Senior Notes") for net proceeds of $197.3 million. Although the coupon on the Senior Notes is 7.0%, the effective rate is approximately 6.4%, taking into account the effect of a cash flow hedge executed by the Company in March 2004. The 7.0% Senior Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by AGL.
(b): 8.50% Senior Notes. On June 24, 2009, AGL issued 3,450,000 equity units for net proceeds of approximately $166.8 million in a registered public offering. The net proceeds of the offering were used to pay a portion of the consideration for the AGMH Acquisition. Each equity unit consists of

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(i) a forward purchase contract and (ii) a 5% undivided beneficial ownership interest in $1,000 principal amount 8.50% senior notes due 2014 issued by AGUS and guaranteed by AGL. Under the purchase contract, holders are required to purchase, and AGL is required to issue, between 3.8685 and 4.5455 of AGL common shares for $50 no later than June 1, 2012. The actual number of shares purchased will be based on the average closing price of the common shares over a 20-trading day period ending three trading days prior to June 1, 2012. More specifically, if the average closing price per share for the relevant period (the "Applicable Market Value") is equal to or exceeds $12.93, the settlement rate will be 3.8685 shares. If the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to $11.00, the settlement rate will be 4.5455 shares, and if it is between $11.00 and $12.93, the settlement rate will be equal to the quotient of $50.00 and the Applicable Market Value. The notes are pledged by the holders of the equity units to a collateral agent to secure their obligations under the purchase contracts. Interest on the notes is payable, initially, quarterly at the rate of 8.50% per year. The notes are subject to a mandatory remarketing between December 1, 2011 and May 1, 2012 (or, if not remarketed during such period, during a designated three business day period in May 2012). In the remarketing, the interest rate on the notes will be reset and certain other terms of the notes may be modified, including to extend the maturity date, to change the redemption rights (as long as there will be at least two years between the reset date and any new redemption date) and to add interest deferral provisions. If the notes are not successfully remarketed, the interest rate on the notes will not be reset and holders of all notes will have the right to put their notes to the Company on the purchase contract settlement date at a put price equal to $1,000 per note ($50 per equity unit) plus accrued and unpaid interest. The notes are redeemable at AGUS' option, in whole but not in part, upon the occurrence and continuation of certain events at any time prior to the earlier of the date of a successful remarketing and the purchase contract settlement date. The aggregate redemption amount for the notes is equal to an amount that would permit the collateral agent to purchase a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities sufficient to pay the principal amount of the notes and all scheduled interest payment dates that occur after the special event redemption date to, and including the purchase contract settlement date; provided that the aggregate redemption amount may not be less than the principal amount of the notes. Other than in connection with certain specified tax or accounting related events, the notes may not be redeemed by AGUS prior to June 1, 2014.

(c): Series A Enhanced Junior Subordinated Debentures. On December 20, 2006, AGUS issued $150.0 million of the Debentures due 2066 for net proceeds of $149.7 million. The Debentures pay a fixed 6.40% rate of interest until December 15, 2016, and thereafter pay a floating rate of interest, reset quarterly, at a rate equal to 3 month London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") plus a margin equal to 2.38%. AGUS may elect at one or more times to defer payment of interest for one or more consecutive periods for up to ten years. Any unpaid interest bears interest at the then applicable rate. AGUS may not defer interest past the maturity date. These Debentures are guaranteed on a junior subordinated basis by AGL.

Debt Issued by AGMH

AGL fully and unconditionally guarantees the following three series of AGMH debt obligations:

(a): $100.0 million face amount of 6⁷/8% Quarterly Income Bond Securities ("QUIBS") due December 15, 2101. On December 19, 2001, AGMH issued $100.0 million face amount of 6⁷/8% QUIBS due December 15, 2101, which are callable without premium or penalty.
(b): $230.0 million face amount of 6.25% Notes due November 1, 2102. On November 26, 2002, AGMH issued $230.0 million face amount of 6.25% Notes due November 1, 2102, which are callable without premium or penalty in whole or in part.

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(c): $100.0 million face amount of 5.60% Notes due July 15, 2103. On July 31, 2003, AGMH issued $100.0 million face amount of 5.60% Notes due July 15, 2103, which are callable without premium or penalty in whole or in part.

AGL also guarantees, on a junior subordinated basis, the $300 million of AGMH's outstanding Junior Subordinated Debentures.

(d): $300.0 million face amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures due December 15, 2036. On November 22, 2006, AGMH issued $300.0 million face amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures with a scheduled maturity date of December 15, 2036 and a final repayment date of December 15, 2066. The final repayment date of December 15, 2066 may be automatically extended up to four times in five-year increments provided certain conditions are met. The debentures are redeemable, in whole or in part, at any time prior to December 15, 2036 at their principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date of redemption or, if greater, the make-whole redemption price. Interest on the debentures will accrue from November 22, 2006 to December 15, 2036 at the annual rate of 6.40%. If any amount of the debentures remains outstanding after December 15, 2036, then the principal amount of the outstanding debentures will bear interest at a floating interest rate equal to one-month LIBOR plus 2.215% until repaid. AGMH may elect at one or more times to defer payment of interest on the debentures for one or more consecutive interest periods that do not exceed ten years. In connection with the completion of this offering, AGMH entered into a replacement capital covenant for the benefit of persons that buy, hold or sell a specified series of AGMH long-term indebtedness ranking senior to the debentures. Under the covenant, the debentures will not be repaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased by AGMH or any of its subsidiaries on or before the date that is 20 years prior to the final repayment date, except to the extent that AGMH has received proceeds from the sale of replacement capital securities. The proceeds from this offering were used to pay a dividend to the shareholders of AGMH.

Notes Payable

Notes Payable represents debt issued by VIEs, consolidated by AGM to the Financial Products Companies, which were transferred to Dexia Holdings prior to the AGMH Acquisition. The funds borrowed were used to finance the purchase of the underlying obligations of AGM-insured obligations which had breached triggers allowing AGM to exercise its right to accelerate payment of a claim in order to mitigate loss. The assets purchased are classified as assets acquired in refinancing transactions. The term of the notes payable matches the terms of the assets.

Credit Facilities

The proceeds of the loans and letters of credit are to be used for the working capital and other general corporate purposes of the borrowers and to support reinsurance transactions.

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The 2006 Credit Facility's financial covenants require that AGL:

(a): maintain a minimum net worth of 75% of the Consolidated Net Worth of Assured Guaranty as of the June 30 (calculated as if the AGMH Acquisition had been consummated on such date), 2009; and
(b): maintain a maximum debt-to-capital ratio of 30%.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility. There have not been any borrowings under the 2006 Credit Facility.

In connection with the AGMH Acquisition, under a Strip Coverage Liquidity and Security Agreement, the Company also has recourse to a facility to finance the payment of claims under certain financial guaranty insurance policies. See "—Liquidity Arrangements with Respect to AGMH's Former Financial Products Business—The Leveraged Lease Business."

Limited-Recourse Credit Facilities

AG Re Credit Facility

On July 31, 2007, AG Re entered into a limited recourse credit facility ("AG Re Credit Facility") with a syndicate of banks which provides up to $200.0 million for the payment of losses in respect of the covered portfolio. The AG Re Credit Facility expires in July 2014. The facility can be utilized after AG Re has incurred, during the term of the facility, cumulative municipal losses (net of any recoveries) in excess of the greater of $260 million or the average annual debt service of the covered portfolio multiplied by 4.5%. The obligation to repay loans under this agreement is a limited recourse obligation payable solely from, and collateralized by, a pledge of recoveries realized on defaulted insured obligations in the covered portfolio, including certain installment premiums and other collateral.

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility nor have there been any borrowings during the life of this facility.

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AGM Credit Facility

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, no amounts were outstanding under this facility nor have there been any borrowings during the life of this facility.

Committed Capital Securities

The AGC CCS Securities

Each of the Custodial Trusts is a special purpose Delaware statutory trust formed for the purpose of (a) issuing a series of flex AGC CCS Securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Custodial Trust; (b) investing the proceeds from the issuance of the AGC CCS Securities or any redemption in full of AGC Preferred Stock in a portfolio of high-grade commercial paper and (in limited cases) U.S. Treasury Securities (the "Eligible Assets"), and (c) entering into the Put Agreement and related agreements. The Custodial Trusts are not consolidated in Assured Guaranty's financial statements.

Income distributions on the AGC CCS Securities were equal to an annualized rate of one-month LIBOR plus 110 basis points for all periods ending on or before April 8, 2008. For periods after that date, distributions on the AGC CCS Securities were determined pursuant to an auction process. However, on April 7, 2008 the auction process failed. As a result, the annualized rate on the AGC CCS Securities increased to one-month LIBOR plus 250 basis points. When a Custodial Trust holds Eligible Assets, the relevant distribution periods is 28 days; when a Custodial Trust holds AGC Preferred Stock, however, the distribution periods is 49 days.

Put Agreements. Pursuant to the Put Agreements, AGC pays a monthly put premium to each Custodial Trust except during any periods when the relevant Custodial Trust holds the AGC Preferred Stock that has been put to it or upon termination of the Put Agreement. This put premium equals the product of:

•: the applicable distribution rate on the AGC CCS Securities for the relevant period less the excess of (a) the Custodial Trust's stated return on the Eligible Assets for the period (expressed as an annual rate) over (b) the expenses of the Custodial Trust for the period (expressed as an annual rate);
•: the aggregate face amount of the AGC CCS Securities of the Custodial Trust outstanding on the date the put premium is calculated; and
•: the number of days in the distribution period divided by 360.

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Upon AGC's exercise of its put option, the relevant Custodial Trust will liquidate its portfolio of Eligible Assets and purchase the AGC Preferred Stock. The Custodial Trust will then hold the AGC Preferred Stock until the earlier of the redemption of the AGC Preferred Stock and the liquidation or dissolution of the Custodial Trust.

The Put Agreements have no scheduled termination date or maturity. However, each Put Agreement will terminate if (subject to certain grace periods) (1) AGC fails to pay the put premium as required, (2) AGC elects to have the AGC Preferred Stock bear a fixed rate dividend (a "Fixed Rate Distribution Event"), (3) AGC fails to pay dividends on the AGC Preferred Stock, or the Custodial Trust's fees and expenses for the related period, (4) AGC fails to pay the redemption price of the AGC Preferred Stock, (5) the face amount of a Custodial Trust's CCS Securities is less than $20 million, (6) AGC terminates the Put Agreement, or (7) a decree of judicial dissolution of the Custodial Trust is entered. If, as a result of AGC's failure to pay the put premium, the Custodial Trust is liquidated, AGC will be required to pay a termination payment, which will in turn be distributed to the holders of the AGC CCS Securities. The termination payment will be at a rate equal to 1.10% per annum of the amount invested in Eligible Assets calculated from the date of the failure to pay the put premium through the end of the applicable period.

As of March 31, 2010 the put option had not been exercised.

AGC Preferred Stock. The dividend rate on the AGC Preferred Stock is determined pursuant to the same auction process applicable to distributions on the AGC CCS Securities. However, if a Fixed Rate Distribution Event occurs, the distribution rate on the AGC Preferred Stock will be the fixed rate equivalent of one-month LIBOR plus 2.50%. For these purposes, a "Fixed Rate Distribution Event" will occur when AGC Preferred Stock is outstanding, if (subject to certain grace periods): (1) AGC elects to have the AGC Preferred Stock bear dividends at a fixed rate, (2) AGC does not pay dividends on the AGC Preferred Stock for the related distribution period or (3) AGC does pay the fees and expenses of the Custodial Trust for the related distribution period. During the period in which AGC Preferred Stock is held by a Custodial Trust and unless a Fixed Rate Distribution Event has occurred, dividends will be paid every 49 days. Following a Fixed Rate Distribution Event, dividends will be paid every 90 days.

Unless redeemed by AGC, the AGC Preferred Stock will be perpetual. Following exercise of the put option during any Flexed Rate Period, AGC may redeem the AGC Preferred Stock held by a Custodial Trust in whole and not in part on any distribution payment date by paying the Custodial Trust the liquidation preference amount of the AGC Preferred Stock plus any accrued but unpaid dividends for the then current distribution period. If AGC redeems the AGC Preferred Stock held by a Custodial Trust, the Custodial Trust will reinvest the redemption proceeds in Eligible Assets and AGC will pay the put premium to the Custodial Trust. If the AGC Preferred Stock was distributed to holders of AGC CCS Securities during any Flexed Rate Period then AGC may not redeem the AGC Preferred Stock until the end of the period.

Following exercise of the put option, AGC Preferred Stock held by a Custodial Trust in whole or in part on any distribution payment date by paying the Custodial Trust the liquidation preference amount of the AGC Preferred Stock to be redeemed plus any accrued but unpaid dividends for the then current distribution period. If AGC partially redeems the AGC Preferred Stock held by a Custodial Trust, the redemption proceeds will be distributed pro rata to the holders of the CCS Securities (with a corresponding reduction in the aggregate face amount of AGC CCS Securities). However, AGC must redeem all of the AGC Preferred Stock if, after giving effect to a partial redemption, the aggregate liquidation preference amount of the AGC Preferred Stock held by the Custodial Trust immediately following such redemption would be less than $20 million. If a Fixed Rate Distribution Event occurs, AGC may not redeem the AGC Preferred Stock for two years from the date of the Fixed Rate Distribution Event.

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The AGM CPS Securities

In June 2003, $200.0 million of AGM CPS Securities, money market preferred trust securities, were issued by trusts created for the primary purpose of issuing the AGM CPS Securities, investing the proceeds in high-quality commercial paper and selling put options to AGM, allowing AGM to issue the trusts non-cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred stock (the "AGM Preferred Stock") of AGM in exchange for cash. There are four trusts each with an initial aggregate face amount of $50 million. These trusts hold auctions every 28 days at which time investors submit bid orders to purchase AGM CPS Securities. If AGM were to exercise a put option, the applicable trust would transfer the portion of the proceeds attributable to principal received upon maturity of its assets, net of expenses, to AGM in exchange for Preferred Stock of AGM. AGM pays a floating put premium to the trusts, which represents the difference between the commercial paper yield and the winning auction rate (plus all fees and expenses of the trust). If any auction does not attract sufficient clearing bids, however, the auction rate is subject to a maximum rate of 200 basis points above LIBOR for the next succeeding distribution period. Beginning in August 2007, the AGM CPS Securities required the maximum rate for each of the relevant trusts. AGM continues to have the ability to exercise its put option and cause the related trusts to purchase AGM Preferred Stock. The trusts provide AGM access to new capital at its sole discretion through the exercise of the put options. The Company does not consider itself to be the primary beneficiary of the trusts because it does not retain the majority of the residual benefits or expected losses.

As of March 31, 2010 the put option had not been exercised.

Investment Portfolio

The Company's investment portfolio consisted of $9.1 billion of fixed maturity securities and $1.4 billion of short-term investments and a duration of 4.3 years as of March 31, 2010, compared with $9.1 billion of fixed maturity securities, $1.7 billion of short-term investments and a duration of 4.4 years as of December 31, 2009. The Company's fixed maturity securities are designated as available-for-sale. Fixed maturity securities are reported at their fair value, and the change in fair value is reported as part of accumulated OCI unless determined to be OTTI. If management believes the decline in fair value is "other than temporary," the Company writes down the carrying value of the investment and records a realized loss in the consolidated statements of operations.

Fair value of the fixed maturity securities is based upon market prices provided by either independent pricing services or, when such prices are not available, by reference to broker or underwriter bid indications. The Company's investment portfolio does not include any non-publicly traded securities. For a detailed description of the Company's valuation of investments see Note 9 in "Item 1. Financial Statements".

The Company reviews the investment portfolio for possible impairment losses. For additional information, see Note 10 in "Item 1. Financial Statements".

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Investment Portfolio by Security Type

		As of March 31, 2010

		Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized Gain		Gross Unrealized Loss			Estimated Fair Value
		(in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	1,019.4	$	30.3	$	(1.0	)	$	1,048.7
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			4,663.0		155.9		(4.7	)		4,814.2
Corporate securities			628.5		15.1		(1.0	)		642.6
Mortgage-backed securities(1):
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,460.5		41.1		(35.0	)		1,466.6
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		240.4		7.7		(0.5	)		247.6
Asset-backed securities			505.8		2.8		(6.7	)		501.9
Foreign government securities			348.3		3.9		(16.5	)		335.7

	Total fixed maturity securities		8,865.9		256.8		(65.4	)		9,057.3
Short-term investments			1,422.0		—		(0.6	)		1,421.4

	Total investments	$	10,287.9	$	256.8	$	(66.0	)	$	10,478.7

		As of December 31, 2009

		Amortized Cost		Gross Unrealized Gain		Gross Unrealized Loss			Estimated Fair Value
		(in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	1,014.2	$	26.1	$	(2.7	)	$	1,037.6
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			4,881.6		164.7		(6.8	)		5,039.5
Corporate securities			617.1		12.8		(4.4	)		625.5
Mortgage-backed securities(1):
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,449.4		39.5		(24.3	)		1,464.6
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		229.9		3.4		(6.1	)		227.2
Asset-backed securities			395.3		1.5		(7.9	)		388.9
Foreign government securities			356.4		3.6		(3.4	)		356.6

	Total fixed maturity securities		8,943.9		251.6		(55.6	)		9,139.9
Short-term investments			1,668.3		0.7		(0.7	)		1,668.3

	Total investments	$	10,612.2	$	252.3	$	(56.3	)	$	10,808.2

(1): As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively, approximately 76% and 80% of the Company's total mortgage-backed securities were government agency obligations.

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The following tables summarize, for all securities in an unrealized loss position as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the aggregate fair value and gross unrealized loss by length of time the amounts have continuously been in an unrealized loss position.

Gross Unrealized Loss by Length of Time

		As of March 31, 2010

		Less than 12 months					12 months or more					Total
		Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
		(dollars in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	163.8	$	(1.0	)	$	—	$	—		$	163.8	$	(1.0	)
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			381.3		(2.9	)		43.0		(1.8	)		424.3		(4.7	)
Corporate securities			137.6		(0.7	)		4.1		(0.3	)		141.7		(1.0	)
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		400.6		(32.3	)		18.5		(2.7	)		419.1		(35.0	)
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		21.2		(0.3	)		7.7		(0.2	)		28.9		(0.5	)
Asset-backed securities			30.0		(6.6	)		1.9		(0.1	)		31.9		(6.7	)
Foreign government securities			263.2		(16.5	)		—		—			263.2		(16.5	)

Total		$	1,397.7	$	(60.3	)	$	75.2	$	(5.1	)	$	1,472.9	$	(65.4	)

Number of securities					199					20					219

		As of December 31, 2009

		Less than 12 months					12 months or more					Total
		Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss			Fair Value		Unrealized Loss
		(dollars in millions)
U.S. government and agencies		$	292.5	$	(2.7	)	$	—	$	—		$	292.5	$	(2.7	)
Obligations of state and political subdivisions			407.4		(4.1	)		56.9		(2.7	)		464.3		(6.8	)
Corporate securities			287.0		(3.9	)		8.2		(0.5	)		295.2		(4.4	)
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		361.4		(21.6	)		20.5		(2.7	)		381.9		(24.3	)
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		49.5		(2.4	)		56.4		(3.7	)		105.9		(6.1	)
Asset-backed securities			126.1		(7.8	)		2.0		(0.1	)		128.1		(7.9	)
Foreign government securities			270.4		(3.4	)		—		—			270.4		(3.4	)

Total		$	1,794.3	$	(45.9	)	$	144.0	$	(9.7	)	$	1,938.3	$	(55.6	)

Number of securities					259					33					292

As of March 31, 2010, the Company's gross unrealized loss position on long term security stood at $65.4 million compared to $55.6 million at December 31, 2009. There was no significant change in gross unrealized losses in any sector for the quarter ended March 31, 2010.

As of March 31, 2010, the Company had 20 securities in an unrealized loss position for greater than 12 months, representing a gross unrealized loss of $5.1 million. Of these securities, one security had an unrealized loss greater than 10% of book value. The total unrealized loss for this security as of March 31, 2010 was $2.2 million. This unrealized loss was yield related.

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4.3 years, compared with 84.6% and 4.4 years as of December 31, 2009. Changes in interest rates affect the value of the Company's fixed maturity portfolio. As interest rates fall, the fair value of fixed maturity securities increases and as interest rates rise, the fair value of fixed maturity securities decreases. The Company's portfolio is comprised primarily of high-quality, liquid instruments. The Company continues to receive sufficient information to value its investments and has not had to modify its approach due to the current market conditions.

See Note 10 "Investment Portfolio" in "Item 1. Financial Statements" for more information on the Company's available-for-sale fixed maturity securities as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009.

The amortized cost and estimated fair value of the Company's available-for-sale fixed maturity securities as of March 31, 2010, by contractual maturity, are shown below. Expected maturities will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay obligations with or without call or prepayment penalties.

Distribution of Fixed-Maturity Securities by Contractual Maturity

		As of March 31, 2010

		Amortized Cost		Estimated Fair Value
		(in millions)
Due within one year		$	56.4	$	57.6
Due after one year through five years			1,889.8		1,905.5
Due after five years through ten years			1,728.2		1,768.5
Due after ten years			3,490.6		3,611.4
Mortgage-backed securities:
	Residential mortgage-backed securities		1,460.5		1,466.6
	Commercial mortgage-backed securities		240.4		247.6

Total		$	8,865.9	$	9,057.2

The following table summarizes the ratings distributions of the Company's investment portfolio as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009. Ratings are represented by the lower of the Moody's and S&P classifications.

Distribution of Fixed-Maturity Securities by Rating

Rating

AAA		46.9	%	47.9	%
AA		31.2		30.0
A		16.1		16.4
BBB		1.6		1.8
BIG		4.2		3.9

	Total	100.0	%	100.0	%

As of March 31, 2010, the Company's investment portfolio contained 36 securities that were not rated or rated BIG compared to 35 securities as of December 31, 2009. As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the weighted average credit quality of the Company's entire investment portfolio was AA.

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As of March 31, 2010, $1.9 billion of the Company's fixed maturity securities were guaranteed by third parties. The following table presents the credit rating of these securities without the third-party guaranty:

Rating		As of March 31, 2010

		(in millions)
AAA		$	—
AA			849.9
A			879.2
BBB			67.3
BIG			12.6
Not Available			48.4

	Total	$	1,857.4

Distribution by Third-Party Guarantor

Guarantor		As of March 31, 2010

		(in millions)
MBIA		$	1,036.1
Ambac			759.8
CIFG			22.3
FGIC			21.9
Syncora			15.8
Radian			1.5

	Total	$	1,857.4

Short-term investments include securities with maturity dates equal to or less than one year from the original issue date. The Company's short-term investments are composed of money market funds, discounted notes and certain time deposits for foreign cash portfolios. Short-term investments are reported at cost, which approximates the fair value of these securities due to the short maturity of these investments.

Under agreements with its cedants and in accordance with statutory requirements, the Company maintained fixed maturity securities in trust accounts of $344.3 million and $345.7 million as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, respectively, for the benefit of reinsured companies and for the protection of policyholders, generally in states in which AGL or its subsidiaries, as applicable, are not licensed or accredited.

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Liquidity Arrangements with respect to AGMH's former Financial Products Business

AGMH's former financial products segment had been in the business of borrowing funds through the issuance of GICs and MTNs and reinvesting the proceeds in investments that met AGMH's investment criteria. The financial products business also included the equity payment undertaking agreement portion of the leveraged lease business, as described further below in "—The Leveraged Lease Business."

The GIC Business

In connection with the AGMH Acquisition by AGUS, Dexia SA and certain of its affiliates have entered into a number of agreements to protect the Company and AGM against ongoing risk related to GICs issued by, and the GIC business conducted by the Financial Products Companies, former subsidiaries of AGMH. These agreements include a guarantee jointly and severally issued by Dexia SA and DCL to AGM that guarantees the payment obligations of AGM under its policies related to the GIC business and an indemnification agreement between AGM, Dexia SA and DCL that protects AGM against other losses arising out of or as a result of the GIC business, as well as the liquidity facilities and the swap agreements described below.

On June 30, 2009, affiliates of Dexia executed amended and restated liquidity commitments to FSA Asset Management LLC ("FSAM"), a former AGMH subsidiary, of $11.5 billion in the aggregate. Pursuant to the liquidity commitments, the Dexia affiliates assume the risk of loss, and support the payment obligations of FSAM and the three former AGMH subsidiaries that issued GICs (collectively, the "GIC Issuers") in respect of the GICs and the GIC business. The term of the commitments will generally extend until the GICs have been paid in full. The liquidity commitments comprised of an amended and restated revolving credit agreement (the "Liquidity Facility") pursuant to which DCL and Dexia Bank Belgium SA commit to provide funds to FSAM in an amount up to $8.0 billion (approximately $5.6 billion of which was outstanding under the revolving credit facility as of March 31, 2010), and a master repurchase agreement (the "Repurchase Facility Agreement" and, together with the Liquidity Facility, the "Guaranteed Liquidity Facilities") pursuant to which DCL will provide up to $3.5 billion of funds in exchange for the transfer by FSAM to DCL of FSAM securities that are not eligible to satisfy collateralization obligations of the GIC Issuers under the GICs. As of March 31, 2010, no amounts were outstanding under the Repurchase Facility Agreement.

On June 30, 2009, to support the payment obligations of FSAM and the GIC Issuers, each of Dexia SA and DCL entered into two separate ISDA Master Agreements, each with its associated schedule, confirmation and credit support annex (the "Guaranteed Put Contract" and the "Non-Guaranteed Put Contract" respectively, and collectively, the "Dexia Put Contracts"), pursuant to which Dexia SA and DCL jointly and severally guarantee the scheduled payments of interest and principal in relation to each FSAM asset, as well as any failure of Dexia to provide liquidity or liquid collateral under the Guaranteed Liquidity Facilities. The Dexia Put Contracts reference separate portfolios of FSAM assets to which assets owned by FSAM as of September 30, 2008 were allocated, with the less liquid assets and the assets with the lowest market-to-market values generally being allocated to the Guaranteed Put Contract. As of March 31, 2010, the aggregate outstanding principal balance of FSAM assets related to the Guaranteed Put Contract was equal to approximately $10.9 billion and the aggregate principal balance of FSAM assets related to the Non-Guaranteed Put Contract was equal to approximately $4.3 billion.

Pursuant to the Dexia Put Contracts, FSAM may put an amount of FSAM assets to Dexia SA and DCL:

•: in exchange for funds in an amount generally equal to the lesser of (A) the outstanding principal balance of the GICs and (B) the shortfall related to (i) the failure of a Dexia party to provide liquidity or collateral as required under the Guaranteed Liquidity Facilities (a "Liquidity Default

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Trigger") or (ii) the failure by either Dexia SA or DCL to transfer the required amount of eligible collateral under the credit support annex of the applicable Dexia Put Contract (a "Collateral Default Trigger");

•

in exchange for funds in an amount equal to the outstanding principal amount of an FSAM asset with respect to which any of the following events have occurred (an "Asset Default Trigger"):

(a): the issuer of such FSAM asset fails to pay the full amount of the expected interest when due or to pay the full amount of the expected principal when due (following expiration of any grace period) or within five business days following the scheduled due date,
(b): a writedown or applied loss results in a reduction of the outstanding principal amount, or
(c): the attribution of a principal deficiency or realized loss results in a reduction or subordination of the current interest payable on such FSAM asset;

provided, that Dexia SA and DCL have the right to elect to pay only the difference between the amount of the expected principal or interest payment and the amount of the actual principal or interest payment, in each case, as such amounts come due, rather than paying an amount equal to the outstanding principal amount of applicable FSAM asset; and/or

•: in exchange for funds in an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all FSAM assets in the relevant portfolio and (b) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of all of the GICs, upon the occurrence of an insolvency event with respect to Dexia SA as set forth in the Dexia Put Contracts (a "Bankruptcy Trigger").

To secure each Dexia Put Contract, Dexia SA and DCL will, pursuant to the related credit support annex, post eligible highly liquid collateral having an aggregate value (subject to agreed reductions) equal to at least the excess of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding GICs over (b) the aggregate mark-to-market value of FSAM's assets. Prior to September 29, 2011 (the "Expected First Collateral Posting Date"), the aggregate mark-to-market value of the FSAM assets related to the Guaranteed Put Contract will be deemed to be equal to the aggregate unpaid principal balance of such assets for purposes of calculating their mark-to-market value. As a result, it is expected that Dexia SA and DCL will not be required to post collateral until the Expected First Collateral Posting Date. Additional collateralization is required in respect of certain other liabilities of FSAM.

On June 30, 2009, the States of Belgium and France (the "States") issued a guarantee to FSAM pursuant to which the States guarantee, severally but not jointly, Dexia's payment obligations under the Guaranteed Put Contract, subject to certain limitations set forth therein. The States' guarantee with respect to payment demands arising from Liquidity Default Triggers and Collateral Default Triggers is scheduled to expire on October 31, 2011, and the States' guarantee with respect to payment demands arising from an Asset Default Trigger or a Bankruptcy Trigger is scheduled to expire on the earlier of (a) the final maturity of the latest maturing of the remaining FSAM assets related to the Guaranteed Put Contract, and (b) March 30, 2035.

Despite the execution of such documentation, the Company remains subject to the risk that Dexia or the Belgian state and/or the French state may not make payments or securities available (a) on a timely basis, which is referred to as "liquidity risk," or (b) at all, which is referred to as "credit risk," because of the risk of default. Even if Dexia and/or the Belgian state or the French state have sufficient assets to pay all amounts when due, concerns regarding Dexia's or such states' financial condition or willingness to comply with their obligations could cause one or more rating agencies to view negatively the ability or willingness of Dexia or such states to perform under their various agreements and could negatively affect the Company's ratings.

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One situation in which AGM may be required to pay claims in respect of AGMH's former financial products business if Dexia or if the Belgian or French states do not comply with their obligations is if AGM is downgraded. Most of the GICs insured by AGM allow for the withdrawal of GIC funds in the event of a downgrade of AGM, unless the relevant GIC issuer posts collateral or otherwise enhances its credit. Most GICs insured by AGM allow for the termination of the GIC contract and a withdrawal of GIC funds in the event of a downgrade of AGM below a specified threshold, generally below A- by S&P or A3 by Moody's, with no right of the GIC issuer to avoid such withdrawal by posting collateral or otherwise enhancing its credit. Each GIC contract stipulates the thresholds below which the GIC provider must post eligible collateral along with the types of securities eligible for posting and the collateralization percentage applicable to each security type. These collateralization percentages range from 100% of the GIC balance for cash posted as collateral to, typically, 108% for asset-backed securities. At March 31, 2010, a downgrade of AGM to below AA- by S&P and Aa3 by Moody's (i.e., A+ by S&P and A1 by Moody's) would result in withdrawal of $537 million of GIC funds and the need to post collateral on GICs with a balance of $7.9 billion. In the event of such a downgrade, assuming an average margin of 105%, the market value as of March 31, 2010 that the GIC issuers would be required to post in order to avoid withdrawal of any GIC funds would be $8.3 billion.

As of March 31, 2010, the accreted value of the liabilities of the Financial Products Companies exceeded the market value of their assets by approximately $0.2 billion (before any tax effects and including the aggregate net market value of the derivative portfolio of $84 million). If Dexia or if the Belgian or French states do not fulfill their contractual obligations, the Financial Products Companies may not have the financial ability to pay upon the withdrawal of GIC funds or post collateral or make other payments in respect of the GICs, thereby resulting in claims upon the AGM financial guaranty insurance policies. If AGM is required to pay a claim due to a failure of the Financial Products Companies to pay amounts in respect of the GICs, AGM is subject to the risk that the GICs will not be paid from funds received from Dexia or the Belgian state and/or the French state before it is required to make payment under its financial guaranty policies or that it will not receive the guaranty payment at all.

The MTN Business

In connection with the Company's AGMH Acquisition, DCL issued a funding guaranty (the "Funding Guaranty") pursuant to which DCL has guaranteed, for the benefit of AGM and Financial Security Assurance International, Ltd. (the "Beneficiaries" or the "FSA Parties"), the payment to or on behalf of the relevant Beneficiary of an amount equal to the payment required to be made under an FSA Policy (as defined below) issued by that Beneficiary and a reimbursement guaranty (the "Reimbursement Guaranty" and, together with the Funding Guaranty, the "Dexia Crédit Local Guarantees") pursuant to which DCL has guaranteed, for the benefit of each Beneficiary, the payment to the applicable Beneficiary of reimbursement amounts related to payments made by that Beneficiary following a claim for payment under an obligation insured by an FSA Policy. Under a Separation Agreement dated as of July 1, 2009 among DCL, the FSA Parties, FSA Global Funding Limited ("FSA Global") and Premier International Funding Co. ("Premier"), and the Dexia Crédit Local Guarantees, DCL agreed to fund, on behalf of the FSA Parties, 100% of all policy claims made under the financial guaranty insurance policies issued by the FSA Parties (the "FSA Policies") in relation to the MTN issuance program of FSA Global (the "MTN Business"). Without limiting DCL's obligation to fund 100% of all policy claims under those FSA Policies, the FSA Parties will have a separate obligation to remit to DCL a certain percentage (ranging from 0% to 25%) of those policy claims. AGM, the Company and related parties are also protected against losses arising out of or as a result of the MTN Business through an indemnification agreement with DCL.

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Strip Coverage Facility for the Leveraged Lease Business

On July 1, 2009, DCL, acting through its New York Branch ("Dexia Crédit Local (NY)"), and AGM entered into a Strip Coverage Liquidity and Security Agreement (the "Strip Coverage Facility") pursuant to which Dexia Crédit Local (NY) agreed to make loans to AGM, for the purpose of financing the payment of claims under certain financial guaranty insurance policies ("strip policies") that were outstanding as of November 13, 2008 and issued by AGM, or an affiliate or a subsidiary of AGM. The strip policies guaranteed the payment of unfunded strip coverage amounts to a lessor in a leveraged lease transaction, in the event that a tax-exempt entity defaulted on its obligation to pay this portion of its early termination payment. AGM may request advances under the Strip Coverage Facility without any explicit limit on the number of loan requests, provided that the aggregate principal amount of loans outstanding as of any date may not exceed $1 billion (the "Commitment Amount"). The Commitment Amount:

(a): may be reduced at the option of AGM without a premium or penalty; and
(b): will be reduced in the amounts and on the dates described in the Strip Coverage Facility either in connection with the scheduled amortization of the Commitment Amount or if AGM's consolidated net worth as of June 30, 2014 is less than a specified consolidated net worth.

As of March 31, 2010, no advances were outstanding under the Strip Coverage Facility.

Dexia Crédit Local (NY)'s commitment to make advances under the Strip Coverage Facility is subject to the satisfaction by AGM of customary conditions precedent, including compliance with certain financial covenants, and will terminate at the earliest of (A) the occurrence of a change of control with respect to AGM, (B) the reduction of the Commitment Amount to $0 and (C) January 31, 2042.

Sensitivity to Ratings Agency Actions in Reinsurance Business and Insured CDS Portfolio

The Company's reinsurance business and its insured CDS portfolio are both sensitive to rating agency actions. The rating actions taken by Moody's on November 12, 2009 to downgrade the insurance financial strength rating of AG Re and its subsidiaries to A1 from Aa3 and to downgrade the insurance financial strength rating of AGC and AGUK to Aa3 from Aa2 have the following effects upon the business and financial condition of those companies.

Additionally, if the ratings of the Company's insurance subsidiaries were reduced below current levels, the Company could be required to make a termination payment on certain of its credit derivative contracts as determined under the relevant documentation. As of the date of this filing, if AGC's ratings were downgraded to levels between BBB or Baa2 and BB+ or Ba1, certain CDS counterparties could terminate certain CDS contracts covering approximately $6.0 billion par insured. As of the date of this filing, none of AG Re, AGRO or AGM had any material CDS exposure subject to termination based on its rating. The Company does not believe that it can accurately estimate the termination payments it could be required to make if, as a result of any such downgrade, a CDS

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counterparty terminated its CDS contracts with the Company. These payments could have a material adverse effect on the Company's liquidity and financial condition.

Credit Risk

The recent credit crisis and related turmoil in the global financial system has had and may continue to have an impact on the Company's business. As of March 31, 2010, the present value of future installments ("PVI") of the Company's CDS contracts with counterparties in the financial services industry was approximately $700.2 million. The largest counterparties were:

Counterparty		PVI Amount

		(in millions)
Deutsche Bank AG		$	168.3
Dexia Bank			64.4
Barclays Capital			48.1
BNP Paribas Finance Inc.			45.5
RBS/ABN AMRO			39.9
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank			35.2
Morgan Stanley Capital Services Inc.			35.0
Other(1)			263.8

	Total	$	700.2

(1): Each counterparty within the "Other" category represents less than 5% of the total.

The Company also has credit risk to the sellers and originators against which it is enforcing its remedy of putting back mortgage loans that support RMBS transactions or against which it may bring litigation proceedings. If the financial position of such sellers or originators deteriorates, including as a result of putback efforts or litigation pursued by other parties, such sellers or originators may not have the wherewithal to make payments to the Company. See "—Results of Operations—Analysis of Consolidated Statements of Operations—Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves". Furthermore, the Company has credit risk exposure to the financial guaranty insurers to which it has ceded portions of its insured portfolio, many of which have experienced financial distress in the past few years. See "—Summary of Relationships with Monolines."

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Item 3. Market Risk

Market risk represents the potential for losses that may result from changes in the value of a financial instrument as a result of changes in market conditions. The primary market risks that impact the value of the Company's financial instruments are interest rate risk, credit spread risk and foreign currency exchange rate risk. Each of these risks and the specific types of financial instruments impacted are described below. Senior managers in the Company's surveillance department are responsible for monitoring risk limits and applying risk measurement methodologies. The estimation of potential losses arising from adverse changes in market conditions is a key element in managing market risk. The Company uses various systems, models and stress test scenarios to monitor and manage market risk. These models include estimates made by management that use current and historic market information. The valuation results from these models could differ materially from amounts that actually are realized in the market.

Financial instruments that may be adversely affected by changes in interest rates consist primarily of investment securities. The primary objective in managing the Company's investment portfolio is generation of an optimal level of after-tax investment income while preserving capital and maintaining adequate liquidity. Investment strategies are based on many factors, including the Company's tax position, fluctuation in interest rates, regulatory and rating agency criteria and other market factors. Prior to mid-October 2009, the Company's investment portfolio was managed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. and Western Asset Management. In mid-October 2009, in addition to BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., the Company retained Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc., General Re-New England Asset Management, Inc. and Wellington Management Company, LLP to manage the Company's investment portfolio. The Company's investment managers have discretionary authority over the Company's investment portfolio within the limits of the Company's investment guidelines approved by the Company's Board of Directors.

Financial instruments that may be adversely affected by changes in credit spreads consist primarily of Assured Guaranty's outstanding credit derivative contracts. The Company enters into credit derivative contracts which require it to make payments upon the occurrence of certain defined credit events relating to an underlying obligation (generally a fixed income obligation). The Company's credit derivative exposures are substantially similar to its financial guaranty insurance contracts and provide for credit protection against payment default, and are generally not subject to collateral calls due to changes in market value. In general, the Company structures credit derivative transactions such that the circumstances giving rise to the obligation to make loss payments is similar to that for financial guaranty insurance policies and only occurs as losses are realized on the underlying reference obligation. Nonetheless, credit derivative transactions are governed by ISDA documentation and operate differently from financial guaranty insurance policies. For example, the Company's control rights with respect to a reference obligation under a credit derivative may be more limited than when the Company issues a financial guaranty policy on a direct primary basis. In addition, while the Company's exposure under credit derivatives, like its exposure under financial guaranty policies, is generally for as long as the reference obligation remains outstanding, unlike financial guaranty insurance policies, a credit derivative may be terminated for a breach of the ISDA documentation or other specific events. Under certain documents, the Company may have the right to cure the termination event by posting collateral, assigning its rights and obligations in respect of the transactions to a third party or seeking a third party guarantee of the obligations of the Company. If certain of its credit derivative contracts are terminated, the Company could be required to make a termination payment as determined under the relevant documentation, although under certain documents, the Company may have the right to cure the termination event by posting collateral, assigning its rights and obligations in respect of the transactions to a third party or seeking a third party guaranty of the obligations of the Company.

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Financial instruments that may be adversely affected by changes in foreign currency exchange rates consist primarily of installment premiums receivable on financial guaranty insurance contracts where the terms of the contract call for its cash flows to be settled in currencies other than the functional currency of the Company's subsidiary originating the transaction. Under U.S. GAAP, the present value of future installment premiums for financial guaranty insurance contracts are recorded as a premiums receivable and unearned premium reserves. Premiums receivable are considered a monetary asset and revalued each reporting period at the current exchange rate with changes in value included in net income. Unearned premium reserves are considered a non-monetary liability and their value is fixed when initially recorded. The difference in accounting treatment for these related amounts could create net income volatility in periods with significant changes in foreign currency exchange rates; specifically for changes in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the British pound sterling and the European Union Euro ("Euro"). The Company has approximately $0.5 billion of installment premiums denominated in foreign currencies as of March 31, 2010.

Valuation of Credit Derivatives

Unrealized gains and losses on credit derivatives are a function of changes in the estimated fair value of the Company's credit derivative contracts. If credit spreads of the underlying obligations change, the fair value of the related credit derivative changes. Market liquidity could also impact valuations of the underlying obligations. As such, Assured Guaranty experiences mark-to-market gains or losses. The Company considers the impact of its own credit risk, together with credit spreads on the risk that it assumes through CDS contracts, in determining the fair value of its credit derivatives. The Company determines its own credit risk based on quoted CDS prices traded on the Company at each balance sheet date. The quoted price of CDS contracts traded on AGC at March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 was 734 basis points and 634 basis points, respectively. The quoted price of CDS contracts traded on AGM at March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 was 468 bps and 541 bps, respectively. Historically, the price of CDS traded on AGC and AGM moves directionally the same as general market spreads. Generally, a widening of the CDS prices traded on AGC and AGM has an effect of offsetting unrealized losses that result from widening general market credit spreads, while a narrowing of the CDS prices traded on AGC and AGM has an effect of offsetting unrealized gains that result from narrowing general market credit spreads. An overall narrowing of spreads generally results in an unrealized gain on credit derivatives for the Company and an overall widening of spreads generally results in an unrealized loss for the Company.

The impact of changes in credit spreads will vary based upon the volume, tenor, interest rates, and other market conditions at the time these fair values are determined. In addition, since each transaction has unique collateral and structure terms, the underlying change in fair value of each transaction may vary considerably. The fair value of credit derivative contracts also reflects the change in the Company's own credit cost, based on the price to purchase credit protection on AGC and AGM. During First Quarter 2010, the Company incurred net pre-tax unrealized gains on credit derivatives of $252.1 million. As of March 31, 2010 the net credit liability included a reduction in the liability of $4.0 billion representing AGC's and AGM's credit value adjustment, which was based on the market cost of AGC's and AGM's credit protection of 734 and 468 basis points, respectively. Management believes that the trading level of AGC's and AGM's credit spread was due to the correlation between AGC's and AGM's risk profile and that experienced currently by the broader financial markets and increased demand for credit protection against AGC and AGM as the result of its financial guaranty direct segment financial guarantee volume, as well as the overall lack of liquidity in the CDS market. Offsetting the benefit attributable to AGC's and AGM's credit spread were declines in fixed income security market prices primarily attributable to widening spreads in certain markets as a result of the continued deterioration in credit markets and some credit rating downgrades. The higher credit spreads in the fixed income security market were primarily due to continuing market concerns over the most recent vintages of subprime RMBS and trust-preferred securities.

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The total notional amount of credit derivative exposure outstanding as of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009 and included in the Company's financial guaranty exposure was $119.0 billion and $122.4 billion, respectively. The increase was due to the AGMH Acquisition.

The Company generally holds these credit derivative contracts to maturity. The unrealized gains and losses on derivative financial instruments will reduce to zero as the exposure approaches its maturity date, unless there is a payment default on the exposure or early termination.

	As of March 31, 2010

Credit Spreads(1)	Estimated Net Fair Value (Pre-Tax)			Estimated Pre-Tax Change in Gain/(Loss)
	(in millions)
100% widening in spreads	$	(3,128.1	)	$	(1,843.2	)
50% widening in spreads		(2,208.7	)		(923.8	)
25% widening in spreads		(1,748.9	)		(464.0	)
10% widening in spreads		(1,473.0	)		(188.1	)
Base Scenario		(1,284.9	)		—
10% narrowing in spreads		(1,162.9	)		122.0
25% narrowing in spreads		(976.9	)		308.0
50% narrowing in spreads		(667.3	)		617.6

(1): Includes the effects of spreads on both the underlying asset classes and the Company's own credit spread.

During First Quarter 2010, due to technical factors such as mismatched supply and demand for buyers and sellers of protection on AGC's credit spread, AGC's credit spread did not move in correlation with asset price changes experienced in the broader market. However, based upon historical data, and price shifts experienced as of the date of this filing, the Company believes that AGC's and AGM's credit spreads continue to remain correlated with asset price changes experienced throughout the financial markets.

Valuation of Investments

As of March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2009, the Company had total investments of $10.5 billion and $10.8 billion, respectively. The fair values of all of its investments are calculated from independent market valuations. The fair values of the Company's U.S. Treasury securities are primarily determined based upon broker dealer quotes obtained from several independent active market makers. The fair values of the Company's portfolio other than U.S. Treasury securities are determined primarily using matrix pricing models. The matrix pricing models incorporate factors such as tranche type, collateral coupons, average life, payment speeds, and spreads, in order to calculate the fair values of specific securities owned by the Company. As of March 31, 2010, 96.7% of the Company's fixed maturity securities were classified as Level 2, 3.3% were classified as Level 3 and its short-term investments were classified as either Level 1 or Level 2. As of December 31, 2009, 97.8% of the Company's fixed maturity securities were classified as Level 2, 2.2% were classified as Level 3 and its short-term investments were classified as either Level 1 or Level 2.

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As of March 31, 2010, approximately 86.4% of the Company's investments were long-term fixed maturity securities, and its portfolio had an average duration of 4.3 years, compared with 84.6% and 4.4 years as of December 31, 2009. Changes in interest rates affect the value of its fixed maturity portfolio. As interest rates fall, the fair value of fixed maturity securities increases and as interest rates rise, the fair value of fixed maturity securities decreases. The Company's portfolio is comprised primarily of high-quality, liquid instruments. The Company continues to receive sufficient information to value its investments and has not had to modify its approach due to the current market conditions.

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

AGL's management, with the participation of AGL's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of AGL's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on the evaluation of these controls and procedures required by paragraph (b) of Rules 13a-15 and 15d-5 under the Exchange Act, AGL's Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of such period, AGL's disclosure controls and procedures are effective in recording, processing, summarizing and reporting, on a timely basis, information required to be disclosed by AGL (including its consolidated subsidiaries) in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act.

There have been no changes in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting during the Company's quarter ended March 31, 2010, that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal controls over financial reporting.

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

Proceedings Related to AGMH's Former Financial Products Business

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Governmental Investigations into Former Financial Products Business

•: AGMH received a subpoena from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in November 2006 issued in connection with an ongoing criminal investigation of bid rigging of awards of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives;
•: AGM received a subpoena from the SEC in November 2006 related to an ongoing industry-wide investigation concerning the bidding of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives; and
•: AGMH received a "Wells Notice" from the staff of the Philadelphia Regional Office of the SEC in February 2008 relating to the investigation concerning the bidding of municipal GICs and other municipal derivatives. The Wells Notice indicates that the SEC staff is considering recommending that the SEC authorize the staff to bring a civil injunctive action and/or institute administrative proceedings against AGMH, alleging violations of Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act and Rule 10b-5 thereunder and Section 17(a) of the Securities Act.

Lawsuits Relating to Former Financial Products Business

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or about April 23, 2008); (b) County of Alameda, California v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about July 8, 2008); (c) City of Fresno, California v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about July 17, 2008); and (d) Fresno County Financing Authority v. AIG Financial Products Corp. (filed on or about December 24, 2008). When the four plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint in September 2009, the plaintiffs did not name AGMH as a defendant. However, the complaint does describe some of AGMH's and AGM's activities. The consolidated complaint generally seeks unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees and other costs. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits. Motions to dismiss the consolidated complaint filed by these California municipalities were filed on February 9, 2010.

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Proceedings Relating to the Company's Financial Guaranty Business

AGM and various other financial guarantors were named in three complaints filed in the Superior Court, San Francisco County in December 2008 and January 2009: (a) City of Los Angeles, acting by and through the Department of Water and Power v. Ambac Financial Group et. al (filed on or about December 31, 2008), Case No. CG-08-483689; (b) Sacramento Municipal Utility District v. Ambac Financial Group et. al (filed on or about December 31, 2008), Case No. CGC-08-483691; and (c) City of Sacramento v. Ambac Financial Group Inc. et. al (filed on or about January 6, 2009), Case No. CGC-09-483862. On or about August 31, 2009, plaintiffs in these cases filed amended complaints against AGC and AGM. At the same time, AGC and AGM were named in the following complaints, five of which were amended complaints and three of which were new complaints: (a) City of Los Angeles v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-394943; (b) City of Oakland v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-479241; (c) City of Riverside v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-09-492059; (d) City of Stockton v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al. , Case No. CGC-08-477848; (e) County of Alameda v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-08-481447; (f) County of Contra Costa v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al , Case No. CGC-09-492055; (g) County of San Mateo v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-080481223; and (h) Los Angeles World Airports v. Ambac Financial Group, Inc. et al., Case No. CGC-09-492057.

These complaints allege (i) participation in a conspiracy in violation of California's antitrust laws to maintain a dual credit rating scale that misstated the credit default risk of municipal bond issuers and created market demand for municipal bond insurance, (ii) participation in risky financial transactions in other lines of business that damaged each bond insurer's financial condition (thereby undermining the value of each of their guaranties), and (iii) a failure to adequately disclose the impact of those transactions on their financial condition. These latter allegations form the predicate for five separate causes of action against AGC: breach of contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, fraud, negligence, and negligent misrepresentation. The complaints in these lawsuits generally seek unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees, costs and other expenses. At a hearing on March 1, 2010, the court on its own motion struck all of the plaintiffs' complaints with leave to amend. The court instructed plaintiffs to file one consolidated complaint on May 7, 2010. On May 6, 2010, plaintiffs requested and received an extension until May 28, 2010 to file the consolidated complaint. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from these lawsuits.

In August 2008 a number of financial institutions and other parties, including AGM, were named as defendants in a civil action brought in the circuit court of Jefferson County, Alabama relating to the County's problems meeting its debt obligations on its $3.2 billion sewer debt: Charles E. Wilson vs. JPMorgan Chase & Co et al (filed on or about August 8, 2008 in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama), Case No. 01-CV-2008-901907.00, a putative class action. The action was brought on behalf of rate payers, tax payers and citizens residing in Jefferson County, and alleges conspiracy and fraud in connection with the issuance of the County's debt. The complaint in this lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages, interest, attorneys' fees and other costs. The Company cannot reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss that may arise from this lawsuit.

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Item 1A. Risk Factors

The following information, which could materially affect the Company's business, financial condition or future results, contains material updates and/or additions to the risk factors set forth in Part I, "Item 1A. Risk Factors" of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 and should be considered carefully and read in conjunction with the information set forth in such Annual Report in Form 10-K and in the Company's other filings with the SEC. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones the Company faces. Additional risks not presently known to the Company or that it currently deems immaterial may also impair its business or results of operations. Any of the risks described below could result in a significant or material adverse effect on the Company's results of operations or financial condition.

Risks Related to the Financial, Credit, and Financial Guaranty Markets

Changes in rating scales applied to municipal bonds may reduce demand for financial guaranty insurance.

In March 2010, Moody's announced that it would recalibrate its ratings of U.S. municipal bond issuances and issuers to its global rating scale in order for its ratings of U.S. municipal credits to be more comparable to its ratings of other obligations and issuers. Moody's began implementing such recalibration in April 2010 and thus far has assigned stronger ratings to a number of states as well as Puerto Rico. In March 2010, Fitch Ratings also announce that it would recalibrate ratings. In April 2010, it completed its recalibration of its ratings of the states, and raised the ratings of a number of such states. In May 2010, it completed its recalibration of ratings in the state and local government tax-supported, water/sewer, public power distribution-only, and public higher education sectors. The ratings of credits in those sectors were generally adjusted upward by one notch or more. Such recalibration by rating agencies may result in reduced demand for financial guaranty insurance.

The Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flows may be adversely affected by fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.

The Company's reporting currency is the U.S. dollar. The principal functional currencies of AGL's insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries include the U.S. dollar and U.K. sterling. Exchange rate fluctuations, which have been exacerbated by the recent turmoil in the European financial markets, relative to the functional currencies may materially impact the Company's financial position, results of operations and cash flows. Many of the Company's non-U.S. subsidiaries maintain both assets and liabilities in currencies different than their functional currency, which exposes the Company to changes in currency exchange rates. In addition, locally-required capital levels are invested in local currencies in order to satisfy regulatory requirements and to support local insurance operations regardless of currency fluctuations.

The principal currencies creating foreign exchange risk are the British pound sterling and the European Union euro. The Company cannot accurately predict the nature or extent of future exchange rate variability between these currencies or relative to the U.S. dollar. Exchange rates between these currencies and the U.S. dollar have fluctuated significantly in recent periods and may continue to do so in the future, which could adversely impact the Company's financial position results of operations and cash flows.

Risks Related to Applicable Law

Changes in or inability to comply with applicable law could adversely affect the Company's ability to do business.

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obligations, as well as applicable law in the other countries in which the Company operates. Future legislative, regulatory or judicial changes in the jurisdictions regulating the Company may adversely affect its ability to pursue its current mix of business, thereby materially impacting its financial results, by, among other things, limiting the types of risks it may insure, lowering applicable single or aggregate risk limits, increasing required reserves, increasing the level of supervision or regulation to which the Company's operations may be subject, creating restrictions that make the Company's products less attractive to potential buyers, lowering the profitability of the Company's business activities, requiring the Company to change certain of its business practices and exposing it to additional costs (including increased compliance costs).

The perceived decline in the financial strength of many financial guaranty insurers has caused government officials to examine the suitability of some of the complex securities guaranteed by financial guaranty insurers. For example, the New York Insurance Department has announced that it is working to develop new rules and regulations for the financial guaranty industry. On September 22, 2008, the Department issued Circular Letter No. 19 (2008) (the "Circular Letter"), which established best practices guidelines for financial guaranty insurers effective January 1, 2009. The Department plans to propose legislation and regulations to formalize these guidelines. These guidelines and the related legislation and regulations may limit the amount of new structured finance business that AGC may write. In addition, on June 11, 2009 and June 19, 2009, a bill was introduced into the New York General Assembly and the New York Senate, respectively, to amend the New York Insurance Law to enhance the regulation of financial guaranty insurers. On January 6, 2010, the bills were reintroduced in the Assembly and Senate for the 2010 sessions. Such new rules may have the effect of increasing the Company's required reserves or lowering the single risk limits applicable to transactions the Company is considering, resulting in limitations on the amount of new structured finance business AGC may write. At this time it is not possible to predict if any such new rules will be implemented or legislation enacted.

In addition, perceived problems in the credit derivative markets have led to calls for further regulation of credit derivatives at the state or federal level. On November 22, 2009, the National Conference of Insurance Legislators adopted its Credit Default Insurance Model Act that would apply new limits and restrictions to CDS, including those guaranteed by AGC and AGM. Enactment by individual states would be necessary for this act to take effect. On April 21, 2010, a bill based on this Model Act was introduced in the New York State Assembly. At this time, it is not possible to predict if this bill will be implemented. Changes in the regulation of credit derivatives could materially impact the market demand for derivatives and/or the Company's ability to enter into derivative transactions.

Actions taken at the federal level in response to the current recession could also materially affect the Company's business. Financial regulatory reform legislation being considered could impose additional requirements on the Company in respect of its existing insured derivative portfolio, including potentially requirements to maintain capital or post margin, as well as on future insured derivative transactions. Such actions also could include the federal government providing capital to support or to form a competitor; federal government programs for states and municipalities that might adversely impact the demand for insured bonds; and proposals with respect to assistance to mortgage borrowers and/or so called "mortgage cram-down" provisions that could affect the Company's losses on mortgages underlying its insured RMBS transactions. Such initiatives introduce a level of uncertainty into how the Company conducts its business and into the types of business the Company is able to conduct. Changes in law could make it uneconomic for the Company to conduct certain lines of business.

In addition, if the Company fails to comply with applicable insurance laws and regulations it could be exposed to fines, the loss of insurance licenses, limitations on the right to originate new business and restrictions on its ability to pay dividends, all of which could have an adverse impact on its business results and prospects. As a result of a number of factors, including incurred losses and risks reassumed from troubled reinsurers, AGM and AGC have from time to time exceeded regulatory risk limits.

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Failure to comply with these limits allows the Department the discretion to cause the Company to cease writing new business, although it has not exercised such discretion in the past.

If an insurance company's surplus declines below minimum required levels, the insurance regulator could impose additional restrictions on the insurer or initiate insolvency proceedings. AGC and AGM may increase surplus by various means, including obtaining capital contributions from the Company, purchasing reinsurance or entering into other loss mitigation arrangements, reducing the amount of new business written or obtaining regulatory approval to release contingency reserves. From time to time, AGM and AGC have obtained approval from their regulators to release contingency reserves based on the expiration of its insured exposure. In addition, in 2009, the Department approved a release by AGM, and the Maryland Insurance Administration approved releases by AGC, of contingency reserves based on incurred losses to restore surplus.

Risks Related to Taxation

Scope of Application of Recently Enacted Legislation is Uncertain

Congress recently enacted legislation that would require any non-U.S. entity that is characterized as a "foreign financial institution" ("FFI") to enter into an agreement with the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") that would require the FFI to obtain information about the FFI's financial account owners, including its shareholders and noteholders other than holders of shares or notes that are regularly traded on an established securities market ("Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders"), and to disclose information about its U.S. Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders to the IRS. This legislation generally also would impose a 30% withholding tax on certain payments of U.S. source income to the FFI if it does not enter into the agreement, is unable to obtain information about its U.S. Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders or otherwise fails to satisfy its obligations under the agreement. Additionally, even if the FFI does enter into such an agreement with the IRS, the 30% withholding tax could be imposed on Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders that do not provide the required information. If the FFI cannot satisfy these obligations, payments of U.S. source income made after December 31, 2012 to the FFI or payments by the FFI to the Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders after this date generally would be subject to such withholding tax under the legislation. Further, if the non-U.S. entity is not characterized as an FFI, it generally would be subject to such 30% withholding tax on certain payments of U.S. source income unless it either provides information to withholding agents with respect to its "substantial U.S. owners" or makes certain certifications, with an exception to this rule provided for a corporation the stock of which is regularly traded on an established securities market and subsidiaries of such corporation. Although this recently enacted legislation does not appear to be intended to apply to AGL or its non-U.S. subsidiaries, the scope of this legislation is unclear. As a result, Non-Publicly Traded Securities Holders may be required to provide any information that AGL determines necessary to avoid the imposition of such withholding tax in order to allow AGL to satisfy such obligations. The U.S. Treasury is expected to issue regulations clarifying the scope of this legislation, and such regulations could have an adverse impact on us. In the event that this withholding tax is imposed, our results of operations could be materially adversely affected.

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Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Issuer's Purchases of Equity Securities

The following table reflects purchases of AGL common shares made by the Company during the three months ended March 31, 2010:

Period			Average Price Paid Per Share

January 1 - January 31		167	$	21.44	—	707,350
February 1 - February 28		62,535	$	21.41	—	707,350
March 1 - March 31		46	$	21.81	—	707,350

	Total	62,748	$	21.41	—

(1): These shares were repurchased from employees in connection with the payment of withholding taxes due in connection with the vesting of restricted stock awards.

For the restricted stock units granted, the number of shares issued on the date the restricted stock units vest is net of the statutory withholding requirements that the Company pays on behalf of its employees. These withheld shares are not included in the common stock repurchase table above. During the three months ended March 31, 2010 we withheld approximately 66 thousand shares to satisfy $1.4 million of employee tax obligations.

Item 6. Exhibits.

See Exhibit Index for a list of exhibits filed with this report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


	ASSURED GUARANTY LTD. (Registrant)
Dated: May 10, 2010	By:	/s/ ROBERT B. MILLS Robert B. Mills Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer and Duly Authorized Officer)
Dated: May 10, 2010	By:	/s/ ROBERT A. BAILENSON Robert A. Bailenson Chief Accounting Officer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number			Description of Document

	4.1		Form of Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc., formerly known as Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd., 6⁷/8% Quarterly Interest Bond Securities due 2101 (which replaces the Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. 6⁷/8% Quarterly Interest Bond Securities due 2101)*
	4.2		Form of Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc., formerly known as Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd., 6.25% Notes due November 1, 2102 (which replaces the Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. 6.25% Notes due November 1, 2102)*
	4.3		Form of Assured Guaranty Municipal Holdings Inc., formerly known as Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd., 5.60% Notes due July 15, 2103 (which replaces the Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. 5.60% Notes due July 15, 2103)*
	4.4		Form of Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd. Junior Subordinated Debenture, Series 2006-1 (Incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Financial Security Assurance Holdings Ltd.'s Form 8-K filed on November 28, 2006)
	10.1		2010 Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement under Assured Guaranty Ltd. 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan to be used with employment agreement†*
	10.2		2010 Form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement under Assured Guaranty Ltd. 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan to be used without employment agreement†*
	10.3		2010 Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under Assured Guaranty Ltd. 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan to be used with employment agreement†*
	10.4		2010 Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under Assured Guaranty Ltd. 2004 Long-Term Incentive Plan for use without employment agreement†*
	10.5		Terms of Performance Retention Award, Four Year Installment Vesting Granted on February 25, 2010 for participants subject to $1 million limit†*
	10.6		Director Compensation Summary†*
	31.1		Certification of CEO Pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13A-14 and 15D-14, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*
	31.2		Certification of CFO Pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13A-14 and 15D-14, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002*
	32.1		Certification of CEO Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002*
	32.2		Certification of CFO Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002*

†: Management contract or compensatory plan.
*: Filed herewith.

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