Industry News
Liberty Mutual’s Ironshore Acquisition Helps Buttress Q2 Results
Liberty Mutual reported an improved 2017 second quarter, with a big jump in net premiums written and net income driven by its $3 billion acquisition of property/casualty specialty insurer Ironshore ...
Allianz’s PIMCO Touts $62B in Q2 Inflows; Ivascyn Credited With Turnaround
Allianz SE three years ago bet the future of its then $2 trillion bond firm on Dan Ivascyn, a little-known money manager at the time who had been picked to succeed Pacific Investment Management Co. ...
Frequency of Cyber Breach Attacks Down: RMS Report
While it may seem like more cyber breach attacks are being reported than ever before, the number of breach events in the United States has been declining over the last three years, an RMS expert said ...
Allstate’s Q2 Profit Doubles Thanks to Higher Premiums, Investment Gains
Allstate saw its profit more than double thanks to increased premiums, strong investment results and lower auto insurance claims frequency. Net income was $550 million for the second quarter of 2017 ...
AIG Follows Travelers, Chubb in Scaling Back Wall Street Guidance
Brian Duperreault, the new chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., said the company will scale back the projections it provides to Wall Street after his predecessors were burned ...
AIG Saved Money, But Saw Q2 Commercial Insurance Losses Climb
American International Group reported a difficult 2017 second quarter, with net income plunging over the previous year, and a commercial insurance combined ratio that came close to 103. The ...
WannaCry, Petya Cyber Attacks Cost Europe’s Companies Hundreds of Millions of Dolllars
Global hackers have unleashed a brace of attacks in recent months, but while their haul in bitcoin has been paltry, the revenue hit to companies infected is reaching into the hundreds of millions of ...
New York Regulators Seek Info From National General, Others in Wells Fargo Scandals
Two New York regulators sent subpoenas related to practices in the auto lending unit of Wells Fargo & Co., the bank struggling with multiple consumer scandals. The New York Department of ...