Investment Officers
American Family Wants to Go Mutual Holding Company Route
American Family Insurance plans to become a mutual holding company. The change would, in part, strengthen its ability to make acquisitions or pursue M&A transactions with other mutual insurance ...
Allianz’s PIMCO Plans Job Cuts After Asset Drop
Pacific Investment Management Co. plans to cut its workforce by 68 people, or about 3 percent, and offer buyouts as assets under management have fallen since the September 2014 departure of Bill ...
Allstate’s May Pre-Tax Catastrophe Losses Reached $202M
Allstate said it got hit with $202 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses in May, generated from eight separate events. The cost actually reached $259 million, but favorable reserve re-estimates for ...
Ex-Morgan Stanley Banker/M&A Pro Joins W.R. Berkley in Strategy Role
W.R. Berkley Corp., the Greenwich, Connecticut-based commercial insurer, named former Morgan Stanley investment banker Jared Abbey as senior vice president for corporate strategy and development. ...
Reinsurers Stock Prices Hit as Soft Market Persists: A.M. Best
While global reinsurers are continuing to withstand challenging market conditions, their stock prices, on average, are starting to take a hit as a result of the persistent soft market and its ...
Puerto Rico Insurers Urge Talks to Avoid Major Bond Default
Puerto Rico's bond insurers are urging the commonwealth to negotiate with creditors as speculation increases that the island will default July 1 for the first time on its general-obligation debt. ...
Aviva Investors to Eliminate Hundreds of Funds to Lower Costs
Aviva Investors, the asset manager for the U.K.'s second-biggest insurer by market value, plans to cut the number of funds it runs to as few as 200 within 18 months in order to slash costs. "There's ...
Reinsurance Demand Spike Likely with Solvency II: Fitch Ratings
Solvency II will increase insurers' demand for reinsurance products as they seek to strengthen their capital positions via risk transfer, according to a report published by Fitch Ratings. Reinsurance ...