Emerging Markets
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 ...
Executives On The Move at XL Catlin, Allied World, RSA and Everest Re
XL Catlin brought in a new claims executive. Allied World hired a former XL Catlin executive to help guide its professional liability business. A pending resignation at RSA spurred several new ...
AIG Keeps DeMaio in Charge of Mortgage Unit as Sale Options Mulled
American International Group Inc.'s Donna DeMaio, who has management duties for several different segments of insurance, was designated to stick with the mortgage-guaranty subsidiary that the company ...
Inadequate Brazil Leaders Compound Commodities Slump: Chubb CEO Greenberg
Evan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Chubb Ltd., said Brazilians can blame their country's leaders, and not just a commodities slump, for the nation's woes. "The economic environment, the ...
Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg Predicts Little Post-Merger Exec Turnover
Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg insisted he believes opportunity and incentives will encourage most executives to stay with the insurer in the wake of its recently completed mega-merger. "I ...
Regulation According to Lloyd’s of London’s Sean McGovern
The start of 2016 brought with it the launch of Solvency II, rules in the European Union that govern how much capital insurers must set aside for operational risk, investment and underwriting. ...
Zurich Snags Generali CEO Greco to Helm Turnaround Attempt
Zurich Insurance Group AG hired Assicurazioni Generali SpA's Mario Greco as chief executive officer, giving him the task of turning around the company, after losses in its general insurance business ...