Data & Research
A.M. Best Places AIG’s Financial Strength Rating Under Review, with Negative Implications
AIG's massive strategic plan - including a move to boost its loss reserves - caught the attention of A.M. Best. The ratings outfit is not impressed. The financial strength rating for American ...
Insurance Industry M&A Set to Surge: Willis Towers Watson
Insurance industry M&A activity will intensify, rather than dissipate, over the next few years, according to a Willis Towers Watson survey of senior insurance executives. Approximately 82 percent ...
Automation May Slash 25 Percent of Insurance Industry Jobs: McKinsey & Co.
Automation could leave up to 25 percent of the insurance industry's current full-time positions consolidated or replaced over the next decade, McKinsey & Company said in a new report. The ...
RLI’s Combined Ratio Stayed Healthy in Q4; Net Earnings Declined
RLI Corp. ended 2015 with a fourth quarter that was flat in terms of net premiums earned and investment income. Net earnings, on the other hand, dove nearly 10 percent. The Illinois-based specialty ...
Zurich’s Ratings Stay the Same Despite Projected Q4 Losses: A.M. Best
Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd.'s financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) and issuer credit rating of "aa-" remain unchanged, following preliminary news of more losses to come in the insurer's general ...
Climate Change, Mass Migration Top World’s Major Risks: World Economic Forum
Failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change is the global risk with the greatest potential impact in 2016. The risk ranked as most likely: large-scale involuntary migration. Both are major ...
Mid-Sized P/C Carriers Increasingly Embracing IT Outsourcing: Novarica
Large numbers of insurers are relying on at least some form of information technology outsourcing to enhance their daily operations, Novarica found in a new survey of industry CIOs. The reason: ...
ILS Market Reaches New Record, Again: Willis Capital Markets & Advisory
Total non-life insurance linked securities (ILS) capital reached a record $70 billion at year-end 2015 – topping the previous record of $65 billion at year-end 2014, according to the latest ILS ...