Matthew Mosher News
A.M. Best Unveils Drafts of New BCAR, Methodology; Q1 2017 Target for Final
On Thursday, A.M. Best published proposed revisions to its core credit rating methodology and to its U.S. property/casualty capital adequacy ratio, targeting a first-quarter 2017 date for the actual ...
Understanding A.M. Best’s New Capital Model: Matthew Mosher Q&A (Part 2)
A.M. Best is overhauling the calculation of the Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio used in its assessments of insurer capital strength. In part 1 of an interview with Carrier Management, Matthew Mosher, ...
BCAR Revisited: Understanding A.M. Best’s New Model
Carriers can toss out old playbooks that helped them map financial metrics into A.M. Best ratings, according to rating agency analysts, who are putting finishing touches on a new capital adequacy ...
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 ...
A.M. Best’s View of the Industry: One-on-One With Rating Officer Matt Mosher
"Capital itself is not the problem. It's like guns. It's what you do with the capital that's the problem." The surprising analogy came from Matthew Mosher, senior vice president of rating services ...
Assessing Reinsurers: It’s About Talent, Not Capital
The movement of third-party capital into the reinsurance space was a constant theme of a recent seminar during which A.M. Best SVP Matt Mosher predicted that reinsurers will ultimately evolve into ...
Analysts Debate: Are Insurers, Reinsurers Too Risk Averse?
Have property/casualty insurers and reinsurers forgotten what they're in business to do? That was one of the questions that three industry analysts debated during a recent reinsurance seminar, when ...
Rating Agency Views of Hedge Fund Reinsurers Diverge
While A.M. Best has assigned ratings of A-minus or better to five hedge fund reinsurers, Standard & Poor's hasn't yet rated any of the five and remains "skeptical" of their strategies, ...