CFO / Financial
SAP Agrees to Buy Expense Software Company Concur for $7.3B
Germany's SAP has agreed to buy U.S. expenses software maker Concur for $7.3 billion in cash, strengthening its position in cloud computing, an area it long hoped to avoid until its momentum became ...
Should You Buy Alibaba Now? Mega IPOs are Mega Laggards a Year Later, Analysis Shows
If history is any guide, investors who missed out on getting a slice of Alibaba's massive initial public offering may want to think twice about jumping into the stock once it hits the New York Stock ...
Capital Modeling: More Than Meets the Eye
If your eyes glaze over when the subject of capital modeling comes up, there are some enormous business benefits to what can seem like a regulatory compliance exercise. Capital modeling draws yawns ...
Eight Years and Counting; Reserve Releases Continue, Fitch Says
Property/casualty industry prior-year loss reserves developed favorably for eight straight calendar years as of year-end 2013, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings, which also says the ...
ILS Pullback to Slow Re Price Declines, Moody’s Says
While reinforcing a negative outlook for the global reinsurance industry, Moody's Investors Service predicted a pullback in activity from insurance-linked securities funds in a report released early ...
A.M. Best’s View of the Industry: One-on-One With Rating Officer Matt Mosher
"Capital itself is not the problem. It's like guns. It's what you do with the capital that's the problem." The surprising analogy came from Matthew Mosher, senior vice president of rating services ...
Treasury Concerned About Hedge Funds Using Bermuda Reinsurers to Skip Taxes
The U.S. Treasury Department said it's considering ways to end a "loophole" that allows hedge- fund managers to avoid taxes by routing their investments through an insurance company in low-tax ...
Allstate Hopes Timber, Real Estate will Boost Struggling Annuity Unit
Allstate Corp. is betting on timber and real estate to boost returns at a struggling annuity unit. "We do need to figure out what we do with our annuity business," Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson, ...