insurance ratings Archives - Carrier Management

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 ...

Rating S&P’s New Method: Transparency Improved, But Execution Consistency Falls Short

In May, Standard & Poor's confirmed that it had finalized a 10-month "Request for Comment" (RfC) process around proposed changes to the rating agency's criteria for rating insurers and ...

Understanding S&P’s New Insurance Rating Criteria: Rodney Clark Q&A

Late last month—in advance of the May 7, 2013 publication of a new rating methodology for insurers by Standard & Poor's—S&P Managing Director Rodney Clark gave Carrier Management a ...

S&P’s New Insurance Criteria Released; Method Would Have Spotted AIG’s Past Problems

Incorporating lessons learned from historical periods for industry stress, including the near-failure of American International Group, Standard & Poor's published a revised rating methodology for ...