CFO / Financial
Purchase Price Disputes: Structuring Earnouts to Minimize Risks
Earnouts continue to play an important role in helping public and private buyers of private insurance entities and sellers reach agreement on the purchase price for merger or acquisition ...
More Firms Buying Offices in Foreign Countries Rather Than Renting
After decades of renting being the norm, companies with offices in the world's major cities are seeing more financial sense in buying their own buildings, prompted by a mix of cheap debt, stockpiled ...
P/C Insurers Turned Profit On Underwriting In Q1; First Since Q42009
First quarter results for U.S. property/casualty insurers show they made a profit on underwriting for the first time since late 2009. Private U.S. property/casualty insurers' net income after taxes ...
Is Cloud Computing Critical To Carrier Management?
Cloud computing in insurance is inevitable. There are many projections about the growth of cloud computing services revenue that support this, but the best predictor of the inevitability of cloud is ...
Congressmen Warn Credit Raters Against Repeating History on CDOs
The top executives of Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings were warned by three members of Congress against granting inflated grades to the same type of securities that ...
What Should Carrier Execs, Directors Ask About Terror Risk?
As carrier executives and members of carrier boards work to get more comfortable with the risks their property/casualty insurance enterprises are taking on, one risk they will likely want to ...Former Enron CEO Skilling’s Sentence Cut To 14 Years
A federal judge slashed 10 years off of his prison sentence of former Enron Corp Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling on Friday, a decision that could set him free as early as 2017. U.S. District Judge ...
Losses Loom For Investors Enmeshed In U.S. Mortgage Chaos
Since the financial crash, banks have been accused of wrongfully foreclosing on homeowners because they failed to create and maintain proper mortgage paperwork. Now, there are signs that chaotic ...