CFO / Financial
Investment Strategies: Consider Asset Mix Alternatives
Alternative mixes of investments can prove to be more efficient in risk and return than a simple duration decision. Approaches include income-oriented tactics, credit-based solutions, lowering ...
Is Strategic Planning Effective At Insurance Companies?
It has been three short months since I accepted the challenge of putting together carrier-focused content for the new website we are launching at Wells Media—CarrierManagment.com. For those of you ...
Navigating the Low Interest Rate Environment
Central banks in developed economies have driven interest rates down to record lows, causing investment income to fall sharply, and putting pressure on earnings. The primary challenges for ...
Single-Digit Price Hikes No Panacea, Dowling Says
While property/casualty insurers may find comfort in reports from various pricing monitors revealing slow but consistent rate jumps over the course of 2012, investors see a different picture, ...Prior-Year Reserve Takedown To Continue Until 2015: A.M. Best
Rating agency analysts believe prior-year loss reserve takedowns will continue to outpace reserve additions in 2013. In fact, A.M. Best's lead rating officer thinks reserve additions won't emerge ...
CFO Attacks Industry Reserve-Cheating Theory
The chief financial officer of ACE Group challenged the popular theory that property/casualty insurers "cheat" on loss reserves as they work through market cycles during a presentation at an industry ...
Complexion of Insurance Company Boards Changing
Insurance company boards of directors have changed over the last decade, with golfing buddies making way for actuaries, accountants and even underwriters, said several board members and executives at ...