CFO / Financial
Zurich Insurance Readying Report on CFO Wauthier’s Suicide
Zurich Insurance Group AG will present the outcome of an internal investigation over the suicide of Chief Financial Officer Pierre Wauthier at the end of this month, said a person familiar with the ...
Assessing ERM: S&P Puts Risk Culture in Focus
Stock prices of publicly traded insurers with stronger enterprise risk management programs show less stock price volatility than stock prices of carriers with weaker risk management programs. At ...
Regulators Map Out First Capital Blueprint for Insurers; IAIS Writing Global Standards
The world's top insurers could be forced to raise fresh capital under rules proposed by regulators on Wednesday, echoing measures imposed on the banks to try to avert the risk of another financial ...First Global Capital Rules for Insurers Explained
Regulators have mapped out the first global plans to force top insurers to hold enough capital, mirroring a well-established framework for banks. The plans, backed by the G20 group of leading ...
P/C Stock Valuations Not Going Anywhere: Conning Research
While property/casualty insurance stock valuation levels are finally exceeding book values after four years of below-book levels, a near-term return to higher historical valuation levels is unlikely, ...
Downgrade of Tower Group to B++ Likely to Have Further Negative Effects: A.M. Best
A.M. Best Co. announced Tuesday that the rating agency has downgraded the financial strength rating of members of Tower Group to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent), one day after the company itself ...
Tower Reserve Charge Prompts Fitch Downgrade, Carrier Review of Options
Tower Group International, Ltd. announced reserve and goodwill charges representing over 60 percent of year-end 2012 shareholder's equity Monday, prompting Fitch Ratings to cut the financial strength ...
Experts See U.S. Default As Financial Apocalypse
Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress ...