Content from Susanne Sclafane
Rating Agency Views of Hedge Fund Reinsurers Diverge
While A.M. Best has assigned ratings of A-minus or better to five hedge fund reinsurers, Standard & Poor's hasn't yet rated any of the five and remains "skeptical" of their strategies, ...
Upgrades and Negative Outlooks: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
As the days counted down to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Fitch Ratings announced a string of favorable rating actions on several global reinsurers in late August. Fitch's Aug. 20 statement about its ...
Cincinnati Financial: A Matter of Trust
There was a time when the words "financial services" and "trustworthy" seemed incompatible to many people. But according to Forbes magazine, Cincinnati Financial Corp. tops the list of America's most ...
Steve Johnston: Chief Communicator
Gas station attendant, pipe layer, casualty actuary and basketball coach. Those may not be the most logical steps on the career path to president and chief executive officer of a property/casualty ...
Double-Digit Growth Rests on Pillars of Stability, Says CinFin CEO Johnston
Unless you work in one of the 1,467 select agencies that currently do business with Cincinnati Financial, you may not know that all of the carrier's field representatives work from their homes, right ...RiskMatch: More Carrier Benefits Summarized
While Kabir Syed, the creator of RiskMatch, stresses that he's built a system that is broker-focused, carriers are key beneficiaries of the information that RiskMatch extracts from brokers to drive ...
Taking a Test Drive: A Carrier CEO Tour of RiskMatch
A carrier CEO who logs onto RiskMatch—the new platform created by Kabir Syed to enhance the relationships of carriers and brokers—is greeted by a screen with a big number in the upper right-hand ...
Who Is Kabir Syed and Why Did He Launch RiskMatch?
During his nearly two decades in the industry, Kabir Syed, founder and CEO of RiskMatch, has held leadership positions in marketing, strategic planning, operations and analytics—most notably at ...