Assets & Investments
Top 10 Insurance Asset Managers Revealed; Market Forces Heighten Competition
Prior to the climactic year of 2008, insurance investment outsourcing had already been growing in a healthy fashion, but the financial crisis and ensuing developments have prompted greater sharing of ...
RSA CEO: Premiums Down; Strategy to ‘Reset’ Insurer Ahead of Schedule
RSA Insurance Group Plc declined in London trading after reporting lower premiums in the first nine months of this year as prices fell and it withdrew from less profitable businesses. RSA, which was ...
Munich Re’s Net Income Soared But Still Missed Analysts’ Estimates
Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, posted third-quarter profit that missed analyst estimates as low interest rates eroded returns from its fixed- income investments. Net income rose 16 percent ...
Britain’s Legal & General Group: Corporate Bulk Annuities Soar in 2014
Legal & General Group Plc's shares gained in London trading after the insurer said 2014 will be a record year for its corporate bulk annuities business, mitigating a 61 percent slump in sales to ...
CNA Wants 11,000 Former Employees to Give Up Their Pensions
CNA Financial Corp., the commercial insurer majority-owned by Loews Corp., offered lump-sum payments to 11,000 former employees to encourage them to give up their pensions. The program could reduce ...
For P/C Carrier CFOs, It’s Time to Revisit Reinsurance Buying Strategies
Capital levels in the property/casualty insurance sector can be ambiguous. As in other industries, capital can be fungible or trapped, liquid or illiquid, affected by prevailing asset values, ...
In Venezuela, Oil Price Plunge Makes Debt Insurance Costs Soar
The cost for insuring Venezuelan sovereign debt against default or restructuring surged on Wednesday as global oil prices swooned to a 27-month low before rebounding, illustrating rising investor ...
Allstate Beefs Up Investment Management Roster
Allstate Corp. is bringing on some new executives focused on the investment side of its operations. The largest publicly traded personal lines insurer in the United States said it hired Russell ...