Investment Officers
P/C Stock Valuations Not Going Anywhere: Conning Research
While property/casualty insurance stock valuation levels are finally exceeding book values after four years of below-book levels, a near-term return to higher historical valuation levels is unlikely, ...
Stanford Case Triggers Supreme Court Clash Over Securities Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court debated the reach of the federal securities laws, questioning whether investors can sue law firms and outside companies for their alleged roles in R. Allen Stanford's $7 ...
Experts See U.S. Default As Financial Apocalypse
Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress ...
P/C First-Half Results Improve on Premium Growth, Lower Cats
The only major component of net income moving downward for property/casualty insurers during the first half of 2013 was investment income, according to a compilation of aggregate industry figures ...
U.K. Regulators Watching Impact of Capital Influx on Insurers
British regulators are scrutinizing the impact of the wave of capital from investors such as hedge and pension funds on the insurance industry. "The availability of this additional capital inevitably ...
Surge in Firms Based in Emerging Markets to Reshape Corporate World: McKinsey
The number of large emerging market companies will surge in coming years and they will become competitors but also customers for rich-country firms, according to a new study. Almost three-quarters of ...
Monsanto Acquiring Weather Data Modeler, Farm Insurer Climate Corp. for $930 Million
Monsanto Co., the world's largest seed company, agreed to buy The Climate Corp. for about $930 million to provide farmers with weather data and agronomic modeling to boost yields and manage risk. ...
Delaying Solvency II Until 2016 Would Harm Insurers: Hulle at FERMA
Further delays to the implementation of Solvency II would compromise the ability of European insurers to deliver protection for their clients in a riskier world, according to a leading insurance ...