CFO / Financial
Tech Arms Race Favors Giant Commercial Carriers
Midway through a recent interview, the leader of a key business at The Hartford paused to ask a question relevant to executives at carriers that don't have 11-digit premium volumes or capital levels ...
Innovating to Control Costs: Carriers Seeking Top-Line Growth Amid Bottom-Line Pressures
Given the highly competitive non-life market, and the depressed pricing that accompanies excess capacity, leaders in the global property/casualty insurance and reinsurance markets have found ...
S&P Upgrades Fairfax Operating Subs to ‘A’; Outlook Stable
On Monday, S&P Global Ratings said it raised the financial strength ratings on the core insurance and reinsurance subsidiaries of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. to "A" from "A-" with a stable ...
U.S. P/C Q1 2022 Underwriting Income Up 5 Percent: AM Best
AM Best reported Friday that first-quarter net underwriting income for the U.S. property/casualty industry rose 4.6 percent to $3.3 billion. Explaining the result, AM Best said that a 10.5 percent ...
P/C Industry Posts 2021 Underwriting Loss but Surplus Hits $1 Trillion
Full-year net income for U.S. property/casualty insurers increased slightly to $61.9 billion from $60.3 billion in 2020, but the industry turned in a $3.8 billion underwriting loss in 2021. The P/C ...
Fairfax-Backed Digit Insurance Targets $5B in India IPO Valuation: Sources
India's Digit Insurance, backed by Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa's Fairfax Group, is considering raising about $500 million in an initial public offering at a valuation of $4.5 billion to $5 ...
The Insurance Data War: How Old and New School Can Live in Harmony
Old school vs. new school. Every so often, a debate echoes down the corridor of time as the disrupters of the status quo burst on the scene with novel ways of doing things, while the established ...
Dealmaking 101: When Opportunity Comes, You Move, Buffett Says
When opportunity comes, you have to move. That was one of the simple life lessons that Warren Buffett imparted during the six-hour-plus annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday. ...