CFO / Financial
A Surprising Way to Achieve Price Competitiveness
How can a company liberate itself from the death spiral of product commoditization? Competing on price is generally a losing proposition—and a very exhausting way to run a business. But when a ...
EXOR Deal Better for PartnerRe Than AXIS, Says Former CEO Thiele
PartnerRe Ltd.'s former Chief Executive Officer Patrick Thiele said the reinsurer's shareholders should vote against a planned merger with AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. and called the cash offer from ...
ACE-Chubb $28.3B Deal Took Just ‘Weeks’ to Put Together: Greenberg
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015 "We are first and foremost builders. Insurance is a long-term business. We are patient," said ACE Chair and Chief Executive Officer ...
No Ratings Impact Seen From Proposed Offshore Re Tax Changes: A.M. Best
Tax changes proposed by U.S. lawmakers to prevent offshore tax avoidance by reinsurers will not lead to prompt any rating revisions over the near term, according to a briefing from A.M. Best. Under ...
PwC: Alternative Investment Growth Set to Soar Over Next Five Years
The alternative investment industry, which includes hedge funds, private equity and real assets, is expected to grow fivefold to at least $13.6 trillion in the next half decade, professional services ...
A.M. Best Clarifies Stance on AXIS-PartnerRe Deal
While characterizing their opinion as neither an endorsement nor a recommendation of the proposed merger of AXIS Capital and PartnerRe, rating analysts from A.M. Best clarified that their stance on ...
Too Much Capital, Too Little Return
Finding attractive investment opportunities is a familiar challenge in a world of low to negative yields, tight spreads and high equity prices. In this year's Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) ...
Sizing Up the P/C M&A Landscape; Analyst Wary of ‘Industrial’ Buyers
A fixed income analyst specializing in the property/casualty insurance sector is growing uncomfortable with a potential trend he sees developing in the M&A landscape—interest in insurance ...