Rating Agencies
U.S. Mortage Insurance Brightens an Uneven 2016 Global Market: S&P
Mortgage insurers in the U.S. are set for a robust 2016, a bright spot in an otherwise uneven global market, where success will depend on the region of the world in which carriers are doing business, ...
Chubb Ranks Best in D&O Loss Ratio But Still Trails AIG in Premiums
The Chubb Corporation continued to report the best direct loss ratio for U.S. directors and officers liability insurance last year, according to a report released by Fitch Ratings last week. But ...
Graphic Insight: Stronger Results for Regionals in 2015
Although operating earnings for a group of 31 property/casualty commercial insurers analyzed by Fitch Ratings decreased more than 7 percent in 2015, some of the smallest—a group of five regional ...
ACP Re’s Late Financials Lead to A.M. Best Review with Negative Implications
ACP Re Ltd., a Bermuda reinsurance company with multiple property/casualty subsidiaries, is finding its A.M. Best ratings under review with negative implications. A.M. Best said the "under review ...
Low Catastrophes, High Reserve Releases Mask Reinsurance Industry Weakness
Weak business conditions in the reinsurance industry are being masked by a low level of catastrophes and a high level of reserve releases, said Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Fitch ...
PartnerRe’s $6.9B Sale to EXOR Closes; Fitch Responds with Ratings Downgrade
PartnerRe's new owner EXOR has closed its $6.9 billion acquisition of the Bermuda-based reinsurer, and Fitch Ratings quickly responded with a ratings downgrade that reflects some pessimism over the ...
Efforts to Shake G-SII Tags May be Futile: S&P
Global insurers that have been tagged as systemically important by the Financial Stability Board may not help their cause by breaking up lines of business in efforts to de-designate themselves, ...
A.M. Best Unveils Drafts of New BCAR, Methodology; Q1 2017 Target for Final
On Thursday, A.M. Best published proposed revisions to its core credit rating methodology and to its U.S. property/casualty capital adequacy ratio, targeting a first-quarter 2017 date for the actual ...