CFO / Financial
The Bottom Line: Earnings Reports for RLI, RenRe and AXIS Capital
For publicly traded commercial insurers and reinsurers that reported 2021 earnings in January 2022, net income soared nearly 40 percent, with double-digit premium growth and higher levels of ...
P/C Industry Profits in Current Cycle Lagging Last Hard Market
U.S. property/casualty insurers have benefited from significant increases in commercial premium rates for nearly three years. However, recent industry statutory underwriting performance improvement ...
Travelers Leaning Into AI, Tech as Earnings Rise
Reviewing the 2021 highlights of both a final quarter and a year that saw Travelers deliver double-digit returns-on-equity, the company's chief executive focused on technology investments aimed at ...
Reinsurers’ 2022 Profit Outlook Better Than Primary Insurers: Fitch
The trailing impacts of premium and loss trends on the books of property/casualty reinsurers makes the 2022 outlook for reinsurers rosier than the profit outlook for primary insurers, a Fitch Rating ...
Property Re Rates Up Nearly 11 Percent in Delayed 1/1 Renewals
In a brief report on Jan. 1 renewals published Monday, Guy Carpenter said that its global property catastrophe rate-on-line index rose 10.8 percent. Improvements on underlying business helped ...
P/C Insurers Less Bullish on Telematics: WTW Analytics Survey
Although property/casualty insurance carrier executives and technical professionals remain bullish on the prospect that advanced analytics can enhance growth and bottom-line performance, ...
Financial Council Warns Climate Change, Stablecoins Are Systemic Risks
Climate change, the rapid growth of "stablecoins" and financial innovations that led to frenzied trading of GameStop Corp shares early this year are threats to the U.S. financial system that merit ...
What Disclosures of Audit Firings Mean About Restatement Odds: Nothing
Mandatory Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures about the reasons behind auditor firings are useless for assessing whether restatement trouble lies ahead for the company, according to new ...