Investment Officers
Chicago Bonds Hold Up in Light Trading After Downgrade
U.S. municipal bonds issued by Chicago held up in light trading on Monday even as the city's debt suffered another triple-notch ratings downgrade on mounting concerns about its public pension ...
Swaps Regulation Could Impact Insurers’ Risk Management, Ratings: S&P
A Dodd-Frank provision regulating derivatives could improve insurers' risk management and have a minor impact on ratings, according to analysts at Standard & Poor's. In response to the financial ...
Towers Watson Completes Sale of Reinsurance Business for $250M
Towers Watson & Co. said Wednesday that it has completed the sale of its reinsurance brokerage business to Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC for $250 million but plans to continue working with its ...
South Africa’s MMI Acquiring Alexander Forbes Insurance Business
MMI Holdings Ltd., South Africa's third-largest insurer, agreed to pay 1.6 billion rand ($158 million) for Alexander Forbes Ltd.'s insurance business. MMI will fund the cash acquisition of Guardrisk ...AIG Overhauls Porfolio Team: Cornell to Run Bonds, Schreiber to Manage Alternatives
American International Group Inc. named Brian Schreiber and Geoffrey Cornell deputy chief investment officers as the insurer revamps oversight of its $358.3 billion portfolio. Schreiber, 48, will ...
Conning Boosts Muni-Bond Investments as U.S. States Stabilize
Conning, which oversees $9 billion in municipal debt for insurance companies, says it's boosting its allocation to the local bonds as U.S. states' economic health stabilizes four years after the ...
Zurich Insurance ‘Confident’ About Reaching Improved Profitability Target
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, said it is still "confident" its non-life unit can improve a profitability target with cost cutting after it announced in August it may miss ...
Obama Administration Pushes Congress to Renew Trade Promotion Authority
The Obama administration's top trade official said on Tuesday that the United States is aiming to finalize a giant trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim nations by the end of year, but that it needs ...