CFO / Financial
Top 10 Carrier Management News Reports: Stressed Employees, Tower Woes, Berkshire’s New Venture
Stressed and toxic employees captured the attention of Carrier Management's readers in 2013, with news articles about those two types of workers showing up in the top 10 news reports of the year on ...
Dirt Bonds Lead Muni Market in 2013 as Housing Rebounds
Municipal debt tied to real-estate development is set to be the best-performing part of the $3.7 trillion state and local-bond market this year as an improving housing market boosts the securities' ...
Catastrophe Bond Issuance High, But Short of Record in 2013
The catastrophe bond market experienced near-record issuance in 2013, with $7.1 billion of global issuance falling just short of the all-time record set in 2007 of $7.6 billion, Fitch Ratings ...
Unnamed Rating Agencies Fail to Follow Criteria, Keep Adequate Records, SEC Says
Credit raters failed to follow their own criteria, allowed research analysts to discuss fees with issuers and kept incomplete records, according to a report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange ...
Premium Growth Continues for 14th Straight Quarter, WC to Lead in 2014
Although the growth in industry total net property/casualty insurance premiums slowed in the third-quarter, an unbroken string of quarterly hikes is longer than a prior period of back-to-back ...
Federal Financial Crisis Warning Office Struggles to Be Relevant
In June 2009, a small group of academics sent an envoy to a Washington, D.C., think tank to pitch their vision for a research office to help the nation avoid the next financial crisis. The idea was ...
Nine-Month Results Show P/C Industry Headed for Best Post-Crisis Year
With a combined ratio of 95.8 through nine months translating into $10.5 billion of underwriting profit, the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry is on track to report its best year in the ...
A.M. Best Affirms Duperreault’s Hamilton Re, Ltd. at A-Minus
Rating agency A.M. Best Co. has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of "a-" of Hamilton Re, Ltd. ...