CFO / Financial
Berkshire Beats Bond Rout, Other Insurers By Avoiding Bonds
Warren Buffett's preference for buying stocks and whole companies rather than bonds is helping Berkshire Hathaway Inc. weather a spike in interest rates better than other insurers. Book value rose 2 ...
AIG to Move Headquarters to Water Street; Eyes Shifting Jobs to Texas, Malaysia
American International Group Inc., the insurer that reinstated a dividend yesterday, will move its headquarters to a building it owns at 175 Water St. in lower Manhattan as the lease expires at a ...U.S. Lawmakers Want Perjury Probe For Corzine
A group of Republican lawmakers called on Friday for a criminal investigation of Jon Corzine, the head of failed futures broker MF Global, saying he may have committed perjury when speaking before ...
Axa, Allianz Report Improved P/C Results; Axa CEO de Castries to Stay On
Axa SA, Europe's second-largest insurer, said first-half operating profit gained 14 percent, beating estimates on higher property/casualty earnings. Axa jumped as much as 3.9 percent to a three-year ...
Wall Street Brokers Support Removing Liability Shield for Stock Exchanges
The government should strip U.S. stock exchanges of the legal status that protects them from most lawsuits, a trade group for brokers said. In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the ...
Allstate Reports Disaster Costs Down, Investments Up for Q2
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. auto and home insurer, said second quarter profit climbed on investment gains and reduced costs tied to natural disasters. Net income climbed 2.6 ...
Insurer Alleghany Buys Stake in Asset Manager Ares, Commits Up to $1B
Alleghany Corp., the insurer that bought Transatlantic Holdings Inc., acquired a stake in Ares Management LLC and agreed to invest as much as $1 billion in the asset manager to diversify its ...
RMS Version 13.0 Released For North American Hurricanes
RMS announced the release of its North Atlantic hurricane model suite, version 13.0, today, noting that the release delivers the ability to fully quantify the risk from catastrophic hurricane-driven ...