Rating Agencies
What Analysts Are Saying: Have P/C Prices Peaked?
With the hardening price phase officially over for property/casualty insurers by some accounts, analysts are not yet predicting any severe price declines for the year ahead—and underwriting profits ...
More Bad News for Reinsurers: Underperforming Stocks
Stocks for 20 publicly traded reinsurance companies performed far worse than the overall market for the first nine months of 2014, according to an equity trend analysis from A.M. Best. The analysis ...
S&P Rates Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. ‘AA+’ With Stable Outlook
Standard & Poor's has assigned Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. a "AA+" long-term counterparty credit and financial strength rating with a stable outlook. S&P said it views BHSI as ...
Government Policymakers Will Muck Things Up for Insurers in 2015: S&P
As if a sputtering expansion in developing markets wasn't bad enough, government policymakers in the developed world will make things difficult in 2015 for insurers around the world, Standard & ...
Heard at PCI Meeting: Reserve Covers, Capital Relief Deals Are Growing Trend
They may not be the new black, but references to adverse development covers and capital relief solutions and cropped up more than once in conversations with reinsurance market participants during the ...
Want to Play Rating Agency? There’s an App for That
Rating agency Standard & Poor's announced Wednesday that it is introducing an Insurance Credit Scenario Builder, a new credit tool available on the S&P Ratings iPad App and on the web. ...
RenRe’s Deal for Platinum Could Spur More Reinsurance M&A: Fitch
The $1.9 billion cash-stock deal by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. for Platinum Underwriters Holdings could spark more merger and acquisition activity among reinsurers, Fitch Ratings said last week, ...
A.M. Best Throws Some Cold Water on RenRe’s M&A Plans
A.M. Best has thrown some cold water on RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.'s $1.9 billion stock and cash bid for fellow Bermuda reinsurer Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd. The insurance rating entity ...