f11krmic2007.htm



SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 11-K

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[ X ]  
Annual Report Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

  
For the Fiscal Year Ended Decembr 31, 2007
         
 or

 [    ]  
Transition Report Pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 
For the transition period from _______________ to ______________
 
            
 
Commission File Number: 001-10607

          
     
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THE REPUBLIC MORTGAGE INSURANCE COMPANY AND
AFFILIATED COMPANIES PROFIT SHARING PLAN

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OLD REPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
307 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60601
















Total Pages: 15
 

SIGNATURE


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Administration Committee has duly caused this Annual Report to be signed on behalf of the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.



         THE REPUBLIC MORTGAGE INSURANCE COMPANY AND
                                                                                     AFFILIATED COMPANIES PROFIT SHARING PLAN

         (Registrant)




         By: /s/ John Gerke                                                                               
      John Gerke, Plan Administrator


         By: /s/ Donna Ball                                                                                
      Donna Ball, HR Benefits Manager




Date: June 23, 2008

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 


The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company
And Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Financial Statements and Supplemental Schedules
December 31, 2007 and 2006



 
 
 
 
The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Index
December 31, 2007 and 2006
 
                                                                   Page(s)
 
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm .......................................................................................................  1
 
Financial Statements
 
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
December 31, 2007 and 2006 .................................................................................................................................................................  2
 
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
Year Ended December 31, 2007.............................................................................................................................................................  3
 
Notes to Financial Statements ..........................................................................................................................................................  4-9
 
Supplemental Schedule
 
Schedule H, line 4i – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2007 ................................................................................................................................................................................  10
 

 


 
 
 
 



Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Participants and Administrator of
The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies Profit Sharing Plan


We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”) as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2007.  These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.   The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.  Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting.  Accordingly, we expressed no such opinion.  An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2007 and 2006, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2007 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the basic financial statements taken as a whole.  The supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2007 is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements, but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management.  The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.


/s/ Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.
 
Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 23, 2008
 

 
 
 
 
The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
December 31, 2007 and 2006 
   
2007
    
2006
  
             
Assets
            
Investments, at fair value:
            
Insurance company pooled separate accounts
   $ 28,180,381     $ 25,550,186  
Insurance Company Guaranteed Interest fund
     22,058,056       20,426,930  
Old Republic International Corporation common stock account
     5,010,873       7,384,333  
Participant loans
     937,721       892,043  
Total investments
     56,187,031       54,253,492  
Employer contributions receivable
     -       3,567,394  
Total assets
     56,187,031       57,820,886  
                 
Liabilities
                
Refund of excess participant contributions
     557       55,435  
Net assets available for benefits at fair value
     56,186,474       57,765,451  
                 
                 
Adjustment from fair value to contract value for
                
   Insurance Company Guarantee Interest fund, a fully
                
    benefit responsive investment contract
     569,768       161,205  
                 
Net Assets Available for Benefits
   $ 56,756,242     $ 57,926,656  
                 
                 

 
 
 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
Year Ended December 31, 2007 
 
Additions to net assets attributed to
      
Investment income
      
Net appreciation in fair value of pooled separate account investments
   $ 1,545,587  
Dividends and net depreciation in fair value of the Old Republic
        
International Corporation common stock account
     (2,068,659 )
Interest, guaranteed interest fund
     969,863  
Interest, participant loans
     65,535  
Investment income
     512,326  
Contributions
        
Participants
        
  Contributions
     810,765  
  Rollovers
     14,864  
 Total contributions
     825,629  
         
 Total additions
     1,337,955  
Deductions from net assets attributed to
        
Benefits and withdrawals
     2,504,753  
Administrative expenses
     3,616  
Total deductions
     2,508,369  
Net increase (decrease)
     (1,170,414 )
Net assets available for benefits
        
Beginning of year
     57,926,656  
End of year
   $ 56,756,242  
         
         
         
         
         

 
 
 
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements 
 
1.  
Description of Plan
 
The following description of The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”) is provided for general information purposes only.  Participants should refer to the Summary Plan Description or the Plan document for more complete information.
 
The Plan is a qualified defined contribution plan covering all employees of Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, RMIC Corporation, and Republic Mortgage Insurance Company of North Carolina (the “Sponsor”).  Employees are eligible to participate in the Plan at the start of their employment and must elect to enroll in the plan. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and Internal Revenue Code (IRC).
 
Contributions
The Sponsor makes contributions to the Plan at the discretion of the Sponsor’s Board of Directors at a sum determined by the Board without regard to current and accumulated profits for the taxable year, for years ending with or within such Plan year.  Contributions are allocated to eligible participants based on the participant’s eligible compensation to total eligible compensation of all eligible participants.
 
Participants may contribute up to 25% of their compensation pre-tax and 25% after-tax for a combined maximum of 50% of compensation any Plan year.
 
Participants may also make rollover contributions into the Plan from distributions from other qualified plans, as defined in the Plan.
 
Contributions are subject to certain limitations as prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service with contributions in excess of IRC limits returned to participants or company when determined.   Excess contributions to be returned to participants based on qualification testing totaled $557 and $55,435 for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
 
Vesting
Participant account balances provided by Sponsor contributions and related allocated Plan earnings become 40% vested after one year of service.  Vesting percentages increase by 10% for each of the next four years with full vesting after six years of service.  Prior to 2007 participants were fully vested after seven years of service.
 
Participant account balances provided by participant contributions and allocated Plan earnings are always fully vested.
 
Participant Accounts
A separate account balance is maintained for each participant and is credited with participant contributions, participant rollover contributions from other qualified plans, and allocations of Sponsor contributions, Plan earnings, and forfeitures of terminated participants’ nonvested accounts.  Allocations of Plan earnings are based on participants’ daily account balances.  Sponsor contributions and forfeitures of nonvested accounts are allocated based on eligible annual compensation of participants.  The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the participant’s vested account.
 
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
 
Participants direct the investment of their account by electing among a variety of investment options offered by the Plan.  Participants may change their investment designation with respect to their account balance and future contributions at any time.

Forfeitures
If a participant terminates employment with the Sponsor prior to becoming fully vested, the nonvested portion of the Sponsor contributions and allocated earnings thereon are forfeited and are reallocated to eligible participants when the terminated participant incurs a break-in-service.  Forfeited amounts are reallocated to the active eligible participants based on eligible participant compensation, as defined in the Plan agreement.  Unallocated forfeitures totaled $441,967 at December 31, 2007, and of the total, $170,100 will be allocated in 2008.

Payment of Benefits
In the event of retirement, disability, or death, accumulated benefits become vested and are distributed to participants or designated beneficiaries by lump-sum payment or through various annuity options.
 
In the event of termination of employment, participants have the option of receiving vested accumulated benefits through lump-sum distributions, leaving the vested value of their accounts in the Plan until retirement or transferring amounts into an individual retirement account.
 
Participants may withdraw their voluntary contributions at any time.
 
Participants may elect to take early withdrawals of employer contributions if they have participated in the Plan for at least five years and in-service distributions after attaining age 59½.  Such early withdrawals will not result in suspension of Sponsor contribution allocations.
 
Net assets at December 31, 2007 and 2006, included funds totaling $10,575,192 and $9,767,692, respectively, which represent the account balance of retired and terminated participants who have elected to leave their funds in the Plan upon retirement or termination.
 
Participant Loans
Participants may borrow a minimum of $1,000 from their accounts up to a maximum equal to the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of their vested account balance.  Participants may have no more than two loans outstanding at one time.  Loans plus interest must be repaid within five years through payroll deductions.  These loans bear interest at the prevailing prime rate at the loan inception date.  The loans are collateralized by the vested balance in the participant’s account.  Outstanding loans of terminated participants are repaid prior to distribution of the participant’s account balance or the outstanding loans are repaid from the participant’s account balance before distribution.
 
2.  
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
 
Basis of Accounting
The Plan prepares its financial statements under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
 
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
Investment Valuation and Income Recognition
The Plan’s guaranteed interest account is valued under the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Staff Position, FSP AAG INV-1 and SOP 94-4-1, Reporting of Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts Held by Certain Investment Companies Subject to the AICPA Investment Company Guide and Defined-Contribution Health and Welfare and Pension Plans (the FSP).  As described in FSP, investment contracts held by a defined-contribution plan are required to be reported at fair value.  However, contract value is the relevant measurement attribute for that portion of the net assets available for benefits of a defined-contribution plan attributable to fully benefit-responsive investment contracts because contract value is the amount participants would receive if they were to initiate permitted transactions under the terms of the plan.  As required by the FSP, the statement of net assets available for benefits presents the fair value of the investment contracts as well as the adjustment of the fully benefit-responsive investment contracts from fair value to contract value.  The statement of changes in net assets available for benefits is prepared on a contract value basis.
 
The Plan's guaranteed interest account is valued at fair value.  The fair value of the guaranteed interest account is calculated by discounting the related cash flows based on current yields of similar instruments with comparable durations.  The guaranteed interest returns are dependent upon, among other factors, the underlying financial viability of the issuer of the contract.  Insurance company pooled separate accounts are reported by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (the “Trustee”) at the fair value of the underlying investments.  The Old Republic International Corporation common stock account invests solely in the common stock of Old Republic International (“ORI”), the ultimate parent of the Sponsor.  The value of the ORI common stock account is stated at fair value based on the quoted closing market value on the last business day of the year.  Participant loans are valued at unpaid principal balance and related accrued interest, which approximates fair value.
 
Net appreciation (depreciation) in fair value of investments includes unrealized and realized gains and losses.  Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis.  Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date.  Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on a trade-date basis.
 
Benefits and Withdrawals
Benefits and withdrawals are recorded when paid.  At December 31, 2007 and 2006, there were no significant amounts due but unpaid to participants.
 
Income Tax Status
The Plan obtained its latest determination letter on April 23, 2002, in which the Internal Revenue Service stated that the Plan, as then designed, was in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.  The Plan has been amended since receiving the determination letter.  However, the Plan administrator believes that the Plan is currently designed and being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code.   Therefore, no provision for income taxes has been included in the Plan’s financial statements.
 
Plan Expenses
Costs of administering the Plan are paid by the Sponsor except for investment management fees of individual fund investments which are charged to the respective investment and included in the net appreciation (depreciation) of the investment.  Participating loan processing fees are charged as a reduction to the respective participant accounts.
 
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
 
Use of Estimates
The presentation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, and changes therein, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.  Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
3.  
Investments
 
The Plan is invested in a group annuity contract with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (the “Trustee”).  The contract allows for a participant-directed investment program in commingled subaccounts sponsored by the Trustee.  Investment options include fixed income, asset allocation, domestic equity, flexible equity, and international equity subaccount options and a guaranteed interest fund.  In addition to the investment options offered through the Trustee, participants may also invest in common stock of the Sponsor’s parent, ORI.
 
The following is a summary of investments held at December 31, 2007 and 2006.
             
2007
    
2006
  
Investments at fair value
          
Insurance company pooled separate accounts:
          
   
Select Large Cap Value (Davis)
$    5,197,382
 *
  
$    5,006,914
 * 
   
Select Indexed Equity (Northern Trust)
      3,678,465
 *
  
      3,519,387
 * 
   
Select Overseas (MFS/Harris)
      3,038,287
 *
  
      2,769,038
  
   
Other pooled separate accounts
16,266,247
    
14,254,847
  
             
    28,180,381
    
    25,550,186
  
                       
Insurance Company Guaranteed Interest Fund (A)
    22,058,056
 *
  
    20,426,930
 * 
                       
Old Republic International (ORI) common stock account
      5,010,873
 *
  
      7,384,333
 * 
                       
Participant Loans
937,721
    
892,043
  
                       
             
$  56,187,031
    
$  54,253,492
  
*Exceeds 5% of net Plan assets at December 31, 2007 and 2006.
 
(A) The contract value of the insurance company guaranteed interest fund was $22,627,824 and $20,588,135 at December 31, 2007 and 2006, respectively.
 
During 2007, the Plan’s investments (including gains and losses on investments bought and sold, as well as held during the year) appreciated (depreciated) in value as follows:

Insurance Company Pooled separate accounts
   $ 1,545,587  
ORI common stock account
     (2,068,659 )
    $ (523,072 )
 
 
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
 
 
4.  
Guaranteed Interest Fund
 
The Plan holds an investment contract with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.  Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company maintains the contributions in a general investment account.  The account is credited with earnings at the guaranteed crediting interest rates in affect for the six month period beginning April 1 and October 1 and is charged for participant withdrawals and administrative expenses.  The guaranteed interest rates at April 1, 2007 and October 1, 2007 were 4.6% and 4.6%, respectively, and 4.25% and 4.4% at April 1, 2006 and October 1, 2006, respectively.  The guaranteed interest fund issuer is contractually obligated to repay the principal and a specified interest rate that is guaranteed to the Plan.
 
As described in Note 2, because the guaranteed interest fund is fully benefit-responsive, contract value is the relevant measurement attribute for that portion of the net assets available for benefits attributable to the guaranteed interest fund.  Contact value, as reported to the Plan by the Trustee, represents contributions made under the contract, plus earnings, less participant withdrawals and administrative expenses.  Participants may ordinarily direct the withdrawal or transfer of all or a portion of their investment at contract value.
 
There are no reserves against contract value for credit risk of the contract issuer or otherwise.  The crediting interest rate is based on an interest rate agreed upon with the issuer, but it may not be less then three percent.  Such interest rates are reviewed on a semiannual basis (April 1 and October 1) for resetting.
 
Certain events limit the ability of the Plan to transact at contract value with the issuer.  Such events include the following:  (1) amendments to the plan documents (including complete or partial plan termination or merger with another plan), (2) changes to plan’s prohibition on competing investment options or deletion of equity wash provisions, (3) bankruptcy of the plan sponsor or other plan sponsor events (for example, divestitures or spin-offs of a subsidiary) that cause a significant withdrawal from the plan,  or (4) the failure of the trust to qualify for exemption from federal income taxes or any required prohibited transaction exemption under Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.  The Plan administrator does not believe that the occurrence of any such event, which would limit the Plan’s ability to transact at contract value with participants, is probable.
 
The guaranteed interest fund does not permit the insurance company to terminate the agreement prior to the scheduled maturity date.
 
Average Yields:                                                                                                  2007                      2006
Based on actual earnings                                                                                  4.5%                     4.4%
Based on interest rate credited to participants                                              4.5%                     4.4%
 
5.  
Related Party Transactions
 
Certain Plan investments are insurance pooled separate accounts and a guaranteed interest fund sponsored by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.  Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is the Trustee as defined by the Plan and, therefore, these transactions qualify as party-in-interest transactions.  Fees paid by the Sponsor on behalf of the Plan for the investment management services amounted to $54,817 for the year ended December 31, 2007.
 
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The Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
 
 
6.  
Plan Termination
 
Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Sponsor has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA.  In the event of Plan termination, participants will become fully vested in their employer accounts.
 
7.  
Risks and Uncertainties
 
The Plan offers investments in various investment securities.  Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market and credit risk.  Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statement of net assets available for benefit.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Supplemental Schedule


 
 
 
 
Republic Mortgage Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies
Profit Sharing Plan
Schedule H, line 4i – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)
December 31, 2007
EIN:  56-1031043
Plan Number: 001
 
                             
(a)
  
(b)
          
(c)
    
(d)
  
(e)
 
Identity of Issue,
              
 
Borower, Lessor,
  
Description of Investment Including
        
Current
 
or Similar Party
  
Number of Units and Rate of Interest
Units/Shares
Cost**
  
Value
                             
               
Pooled Separate Accounts
          
*
Mass Mutual
    
Dow Jones Target 2015 (SSGA)
4,717
      
$        526,832
*
Mass Mutual
    
Dow Jones Target 2025 (SSGA)
15,637
      
       1,791,039
*
Mass Mutual
    
Dow Jones Target 2035 (SSGA)
11,335
      
       1,316,051
*
Mass Mutual
    
Dow Jones Target 2045 (SSGA)
369
      
            42,873
*
Mass Mutual
    
Dow Jones Today (SSGA)
191
      
            20,656
*
Mass Mutual
    
International New Discovery (MFS)
5,972
      
       1,830,979
*
Mass Mutual
    
Premier Capital Appreciation (OFI)
4,651
      
          876,457
*
Mass Mutual
    
Premier Enhanced Index Growth (Babson)
77
      
              8,212
*
Mass Mutual
    
Premier Enhanced Index Value (Babson)
56
      
              9,257
*
Mass Mutual
    
Premier Inflation Protection Bond (Babson)
439
      
            66,055
*
Mass Mutual
    
Premier Small Co Opportunity II (OFI Instl)
2,573
      
       2,739,839
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Aggressive Growth (Sands/Delaware)
14,038
      
       1,042,185
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Focused Value (Harris/C&B)
7,988
      
2,082,843
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Indexed Equity (Northern Trust)
9,251
      
       3,678,465
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Large Cap Value (Davis)
25,029
      
       5,197,382
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Mid Cap Growth II (TRP)
2,599
      
          681,017
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Mid Cap Value (Cooke & Bieler)
179
      
            18,519
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Overseas (MFS/Harris)
17,780
      
       3,038,287
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Small Cap Grwth Equity (W&R/Wellington)
8,877
      
       1,804,083
*
Mass Mutual
    
Select Strategic Bond (Western)
12,741
      
       1,409,350
                           
     28,180,381
               
Guaranteed Interest Account at Fair Value
          
*
Mass Mutual
    
Guaranteed Interest Account
197,381
      
     22,058,056
                             
                 
Old Republic International Corporation
          
*
Stock Account
  
Old Republic International Corporations (ORI)
          
                 
  Common Stock Account
200,913
      
       5,010,873
                             
*
Participants loans receivable
Interest rates of 4.0% to 8.25%
          
                 
maturity through December 18, 2012
    
$0
  
          937,721
                           
$   56,187,031
                             
                             
*    Indicates an asset which is a party-in-interest to the Plan.
 
**  Cost information may be omitted as Plan assets are participant directed.
 
 
 
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