Rating Agencies
Are Riskier Moves Ahead As P/C Insurers Strategize Investment Mixes?
Property/casualty insurers in the U.S. have enjoyed favorable investment returns in recent years, fueled by investment gains from declining interest rates and equity market advances. However, future ...
What Rating Agencies Really Want to Know About Your Catastrophe Risk
Preparing effective rating agency presentations is important to most companies, but when it comes to articulating catastrophe risk and large loss potential, there can be a disconnect between what ...
S&P Said to Be Buying Out 100 U.S. Ratings Employees
Standard & Poor's is seeking voluntary buyouts from as many as 100 U.S. employees in what would be the biggest staff cuts since the financial crisis for the credit grader, according to a person ...
S&P: Bond Insurers Ready for Puerto Rico Corporate Debt Crisis
For now, two major bond insurers appear more than able to handle credit deterioration of Puerto Rico's public corporations and new legislation that will let some of the companies restructure their ...
S&P: Insurers Ideal to Fill Infrastructure Spending Gap
With an expected $500 billion per year gap in infrastructure funding through 2030, insurers are well situated to fill that financing void, Standard & Poor's asserted in a July 7 note. The ratings ...
14 P/C Insolvencies in 2013; Half RRGs: A.M. Best
A.M. Best announced its final tally of impairments for 2013 on Wednesday, counting just 14 for the year—the lowest level since 2007. The level was a little more than half the historical average and ...
Cat Bond Prices May Have Reached the Bottom: Fitch
Catastrophe bond prices have been falling in 2014, but they may not sink any lower, Fitch Ratings suggested in a statement Tuesday, pointing to Munich Reinsurance Group's decision to pull its Queen ...
Moody’s Affirms Validus Ratings Despite Western World Challenges
On Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service affirmed its ratings for Validus Holdings, Ltd., including the A3 insurance financial strength rating of the principal operating subsidiary Validus ...