PMI's Claims-Paying Resources Unaffected by Fitch Action

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The PMI Group, Inc. today announced that Fitch lowered the debt rating of the holding company and the insurer financial strength ratings of its U.S. and international subsidiaries. The following ratings were issued:

Company Rating To From Long-Term Issuer Rating The PMI Group, Inc. BBB+ A Insurer Financial Strength PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. (PMI U.S.) A+ AA PMI Mortgage Insurance Company Limited (PMI Europe) A+ AA PMI Mortgage Insurance Ltd. (PMI Australia) AA- AA PMI Guaranty Co. A+ AA PMI Insurance Co. A+ AA

PMI Australia's rating outlook, previously on Rating Watch Negative, was improved to outlook negative. The rating of PMI's joint venture, CMG Mortgage Insurance Company, remains unchanged at AA.

PMI remains an eligible mortgage insurer for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (GSEs). In February, the GSEs informed all approved mortgage insurers that they would be required to submit a remediation plan if their ratings were lowered below AA- or Aa3. PMI has submitted a remediation plan to both GSEs that details PMI's five-point plan to return to profitability, the company's financial forecast and capital plan, and the risk management measures taken to ensure the company is booking high quality business.

PMI has significant financial resources to pay insurance claims on defaulted loans. As of March 31, 2008, PMI's combined U.S. mortgage insurance companies had statutory capital of $2.6 billion, liquid assets of $2.8 billion, and premium income from $124 billion of insurance in force.

Maintaining its financial strength is a top priority for the company, and PMI has announced a series of options it is exploring or pursuing to further enhance its capital, including capital markets transactions, utilization of excess capital at its wholly-owned financial guaranty subsidiary, reinsurance, and asset sales.

PMI continues to work closely with each of the ratings agencies to communicate its financial strength, capital plan, and value proposition.

The PMI Group, Inc.

The PMI Group, Inc. , headquartered in Walnut Creek, CA, provides innovative credit, capital, and risk transfer solutions that expand homeownership and fund essential services for our customers and the communities they serve around the world. Through its wholly and partially owned subsidiaries, PMI offers residential mortgage insurance and credit enhancement products. PMI has operations in Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Europe, and the United States. For more information: http://www.pmigroup.com/.

Cautionary Statement: Statements in this press release that are not historical facts, or that relate to future plans, events or performance are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include our beliefs with respect to our financial strength, claims-paying ability, and our capital plan. Readers are cautioned that forward-looking statements by their nature involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. Many factors could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, national or regional recessions, and further deterioration in the housing, mortgage and related credit markets. In particular, declines in housing values and/or housing demand, deterioration of borrower credit, higher unemployment rates, changes in interest rates, higher levels of consumer credit, higher mortgage default and claim rates, lower cure rates, higher claim sizes, the aging of our mortgage insurance portfolios, adverse changes in liquidity in the capital markets, the inability of loan servicers to process higher volumes of delinquent loans, and the contraction of credit markets could negatively affect our losses, loss reserves and paid claims. The ratings downgrades announced, and/or future ratings downgrades, if any, will likely negatively impact us in a variety of ways and could, in isolation or taken together, materially negatively affect, among other things, our U.S. and international business prospects and revenues, our ability to compete in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia, our GSE eligibility status in the U.S., the cost of and/or availability of financing, our consolidated financial condition, and our results of operations and cash flows. Other risks and uncertainties are discussed in our SEC filings, including our Annual Report Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 (in Item 1A) and Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements.