CFO / Financial
A.M. Best’s New Capital Model Still a Work in Progress
Changes to A.M. Best's capital model are in the works, but the form they will take is still unclear—even to Best analysts working to test possible metrics for this key component of ...By The Letters: Multiple Insurance Regulators
As the regulators and other entities influencing the regulations of U.S. insurance companies have multiplied around the world, it's become harder to keep track of them. Andy N. Mais and David S. ...
Strategies for Coping With a Tsunami of Regulations
Once upon a time, insurance regulation for U.S. companies was pretty straightforward. But then came 2008. Things changed. The influencers if not the direct regulators of U.S. insurance companies have ...
Endurance Acquiring Montpelier for $1.8B
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. and Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced a merger deal today, which will have Endurance acquiring Montpelier in a stock-cash deal for roughly $1.8 billion. ...
Why Top Female Execs Earn Less Than Men: Incentive Pay Gaps
Even top female workers can't catch a break when it comes to pay inequality. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are out with a new paper on gender differences in compensation for ...
A Boardroom Guide to NAIC’s ORSA
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners voted to implement an addition to U.S. insurance regulation known as the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act back in 2011, but it is this ...
Exec Pay Stock Options Boosting Top CEO Pay by Billions: Reuters Large U.S. Co. Analysis
Chief executive officers at large U.S. companies collectively realized at least $6 billion more in compensation than initially estimated in annual disclosures in the five years after the financial ...
Hochberg Moves Up as CEO of JLT Re in North America
Global reinsurance broker JLT Re announced last week that Ed Hochberg has been appointed as CEO of JLT Re in North America. Hochberg, who joined JLT Re as part of the 2013 Towers Watson Re ...