CFO / Financial
Minding The Gap: Investment Risk Management In A Low-Yield Environment
A significant component of managing a property/casualty insurance company's investment portfolio is gap management—ensuring that asset cash flows and returns always exceed claims and expenses by a ...
Changing Reinsurance Market Conditions Favor Mutual Insurers: Willis Re
Mutual insurers are in a prime position to capitalize on changes in the traditional reinsurance market, according to Willis Re, the reinsurance broking arm of Willis Group Holdings. The recent 1st ...
U.S. Regulators Making Progress Against ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’
For the past year, a special team of U.S. bank regulators has been on a quiet mission to end the belief on Wall Street that large banks are "too big to fail." The team from the Federal Deposit ...
Activist Investors Find Allies In Mutual, Pension Funds
U.S. institutional investors, who used to shun activist investors and side with a company's management on most controversial issues, are starting to change their tune. Aggressive shareholders such as ...
Federal Reserve: Low Interest Rates Not Inducing High Risk-Taking…Yet
Federal Reserve staff conducted a wide survey but found no evidence so far that the U.S. central bank's ultra-low interest rate policy has encouraged excessive risk-taking, the Fed said on Wednesday. ...
Alternative Re Capital Wave Lowering Traditional Re Prices Too
If April 1 is an accurate barometer for U.S. property/casualty insurers with June and July 1 reinsurance renewal dates, then those primary carriers can look forward to lower prices for both ...
Stress Tests Make U.S. Financial System Stronger: Bernanke
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday the central bank's periodic bank stress tests have made the U.S. financial system more resilient. Contrasting the current state of U.S. banks to ...
Underwriting Due Diligence Roadmap For Insurance M&A
The number of M&A deals that achieve their strategic, financial or operational goals remains modest across all industries. According to PwC's 2011 M&A Integration Survey Report, 65 to 85 ...