Investment Officers
British Reporting Rule Change Exposes Transatlantic Cultural Gap
As investors prepare to digest the latest round of company earnings figures, Britain's move to scrap the quarterly reporting requirement has revealed a divergence of opinion between the domestic and ...
Regulation-Fueled ‘Collateral Crunch’ Not Expected in 2014
If pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds were hoping to cash in on lending "high-quality" assets to those scrambling to meet tougher collateral requirements in 2014, they are likely to ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Likely Missing Target for First Time in Four Decades
Warren Buffett probably missed his target for the first time in 44 years. Berkshire Hathaway Inc., his $292 billion company, is poised to report that it failed to increase net worth more rapidly than ...
Dirt Bonds Lead Muni Market in 2013 as Housing Rebounds
Municipal debt tied to real-estate development is set to be the best-performing part of the $3.7 trillion state and local-bond market this year as an improving housing market boosts the securities' ...
Federal Financial Crisis Warning Office Struggles to Be Relevant
In June 2009, a small group of academics sent an envoy to a Washington, D.C., think tank to pitch their vision for a research office to help the nation avoid the next financial crisis. The idea was ...
Nine-Month Results Show P/C Industry Headed for Best Post-Crisis Year
With a combined ratio of 95.8 through nine months translating into $10.5 billion of underwriting profit, the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry is on track to report its best year in the ...
Liberty Mutual Buying Rest of Quinn Insurance in Ireland
Liberty Mutual Group Inc. said it will buy the 49 percent stake in the former Quinn Insurance Ltd. in Ireland that it doesn't already own from failed lender Irish Bank Resolution Corp. The company ...
Sompo Japan Expanding Overseas with Acquisition of Canopius for $963M
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan's third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, will buy Canopius Group Ltd. of the U.K. for 99.2 billion yen ($963 million) as it expands beyond ...