Rating Agencies
Navigating Insurance Ratings: Fitch Unveils New Visualization Tool
Market position, capitalization, reserve adequacy and catastrophe risk management are among the factors that rating agency analysts consider when developing insurance financial strength (IFS) ratings ...
A.M. Best Updates Capital Model Progress
With the rollout of a new capital model set for second-quarter 2016, A.M. Best analysts have made a key decision concerning a statistical metric they will use to calculate risk charges—a decision ...
Moody’s Says Fosun Deal for Ironshore is Credit Negative
Fosun's plan to buy specialty insurer Ironshore is credit negative for both companies, analysts for Moody's Investors Services said on Monday. In an article published in Moody's Credit Outlook ...
Large International Insurers Challenged by Increasing Regulatory Burden
There is an increased focus globally on international insurance regulation driven by efforts within the G20 major economies to strengthen the international regulatory regime since the financial ...
As P/C Companies Turn to Predictive Analytics, Some Underwriters are Wary
If you're wondering how important predictive analytics is becoming to property/casualty insurance companies, consider this: 56 percent of industry respondents in a new survey said they plan to start ...
The Hartford’s Continued Upswing Wins a Standard & Poor’s Ratings Upgrade
Hartford Financial Services Group's continued rebound has led Standard & Poor's to raise its financial strength credit rating for the insurance giant. Specifically, Standard & Poor's said it ...
Top D&O Insurer Ranking Shows CNA Moving Up: Fitch Analysis
Although market leaders in the directors and officers liability insurance segment have stayed relatively unchanged in recent years, CNA edged its way into the top five last year, according to a ...
U.S. Insured Property Values Reach New Heights and Cluster in Coastal Regions
U.S insured property values as of 2014 exceed $90 trillion, but the bulk of that is increasingly concentrated in vulnerable coastal areas. With that in mind, new risk metrics could better help ...