CFO / Financial
Upgrades and Negative Outlooks: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
As the days counted down to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Fitch Ratings announced a string of favorable rating actions on several global reinsurers in late August. Fitch's Aug. 20 statement about its ...
Regional, Specialty Insurer Analysis: Broader Focus Enhances Profitability
Insurers focusing their business on a single state or coverage line experienced decent levels of premium growth in recent years, but they also recorded higher combined ratios than diversified ...
Kemper Strategy: An Alternative Approach to Private Equity Investing
Co-investing has become one of the most discussed issues between private equity funds, also known as general partners (GPs), and their investors, commonly referred to as limited partners (LPs). For ...
Top 5 Public and Private Regional Carriers: Assured Research
In their latest report on regional insurance carriers, analysts at Assured Research provided a ranking of the top five insurers in each of six regions, using direct premiums written in 2013 to ...
Best and Worst Performing Regional Carriers: Assured Research
Which regional carriers made an underwriting profit in 2013? Analysts at Assured Research listed the Top 5 and Bottom 5 private and public regional insurers based on statutory combined ratios. (Click ...
Winds Blowing West, Southwest for Regional Carrier Growth
The wide open spaces of the West and Southwest are beckoning some U.S. property/casualty insurers looking to grow premium volumes in previously uncharted territories, according to a new analysis of ...RiskMatch: More Carrier Benefits Summarized
While Kabir Syed, the creator of RiskMatch, stresses that he's built a system that is broker-focused, carriers are key beneficiaries of the information that RiskMatch extracts from brokers to drive ...
Taking a Test Drive: A Carrier CEO Tour of RiskMatch
A carrier CEO who logs onto RiskMatch—the new platform created by Kabir Syed to enhance the relationships of carriers and brokers—is greeted by a screen with a big number in the upper right-hand ...