Assets & Investments
Prudential, AIG Get Ex-Connecticut Insurance Regulator As Federal Overseer
The U.S. Federal Reserve has hired a former state insurance commissioner to help it oversee non-bank financial firms that a council of regulators identified for tougher scrutiny last year. Thomas ...AIG Warrants Leap To Record, Benefiting Fairholme Capital Management
American International Group Inc. warrants jumped to a record, benefiting investors like Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management LLC, which held the securities for years. The contracts ...
Allianz To Pimco: Now Is The Time To Prove Yourself
German insurer Allianz has called on its California-based asset manager, Pimco, to prove itself after investors withdrew a further 22 billion euros ($30 billion) in the first quarter, denting group ...
Goldman Sachs: Many P/C Insurers Plan Riskier Investments
Nearly 40 percent of property/casualty insurers say they'd like to increase holdings in alternative investments in the coming months to combat low yields, according to a new Goldman Sachs Asset ...
Allianz to Face Shareholder Pressure Over Pimco Performance
Allianz shareholders will publicly press its top executives next week to address the underperformance of its Pimco fund management unit in the hope that the German insurer will look more closely at ...
Former KPMG Partner Gets Jail Time for Insider Trading
Former KPMG LLP senior partner Scott London, who had provided tips to a friend about the accounting firm's clients, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on an insider trading charge by a federal ...
Platinum Eyeing Riskier Assets to Boost Profits in Unending Soft Re Mkt: CEO
With underwriting profitability stalled, Platinum Underwriters Holdings could soon join the list of Bermuda reinsurers turning to riskier assets to boost the investment component of income, the ...Travelers CEO Fishman Eyes Potential Foreign Acquisitions
Travelers Cos., which acquired Dominion of Canada General Insurance in 2013 and increased its ownership stake in its joint venture in Brazil in 2012, is likely to continue expanding internationally. ...