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Underwriting No Longer Sole Path to Profit, Say Berkley Execs

While the days of cash flow underwriting are a distant memory for veteran insurance executives, the need for industry's more recent "preoccupation" with underwriting profit is starting to subside, ...

Cyber Climbs the List as a Major Risk: PwC & CSFI Survey

Regulation is the top insurance industry concern for the third year in a row, but cyber has grabbed carriers' attention like never before, according to the Centre for the Study of Financial ...

Towers Watson: Insurers Worry About Flat Growth and Low Interest Rates

Most insurers expect business conditions to remain flat or even become worse over the next few years. Within that context, regulatory changes and continued low interest rates remain their top ...

Wall Street Poll: No Fed Rate Hike Seen Before H2 2015

A majority of Wall Street's top bond firms see no move by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates before the second half of next year, and most see the U.S. central bank sticking with a range ...

Swiss Re Chief Economist: First Fed Rate Hike Will Be In 2015 or Later

After Wednesday's decision by the Federal Reserve to maintain the target Fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points, Swiss Re's Chief Economist, Kurt Karl, said that with economic growth this year ...

A New Year’s Resolution: I Will Protect My Portfolio from Rising Rates

As with personal resolutions and renewed avowals, the start of a new year is the perfect time for insurers to revisit the parameters and goals guiding their investment portfolios. Particularly for ...

P/C Insurance CFOs Cite Interest Rates As Top Concern

Chief financial officers with leading North American property/casualty insurers rank interest rates as their top concern, above catastrophes and pricing. Eighty-one percent list interest rates as ...

Investment In the Future

If you ask 10 chief investment officers (CIO) at major insurance companies to explain their investment strategies and concerns, you'll hear silence. That's because in a world of intellectual property ...

AIG’s Bond Portfolio Dropped $9 Billion Due to Interest Rate Rise

American International Group Inc., the insurer that repaid a U.S. bailout last year, said a surge in interest rates in the second quarter fueled a $9 billion reduction in its bond portfolio as ...

Sharp Interest Rate Spike Could Wipe Out More Than $100B U.S. P/C Surplus: Moody’s

For each 1 percentage point rise in interest rates, the value of bonds held by the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry will decline by about $40 billion, representing roughly 7 percent of ...