Risk & Capital Management
Rhode Island’s Tobacco Debt Deal Draws Oppenheimer Lawsuit
Rhode Island's plan to sell $594 million in debt backed by tobacco-company payments was challenged by OppenheimerFunds Inc., which claims the deal violates the rights of current bondholders to ...
Assurant Names New Chief Investment Officer
Assurant Inc., an insurer of consumer electronics and foreclosed homes, promoted Eric Greenman to oversee a $16 billion investment portfolio. Greenman was named chief investment officer, effective ...
The Promise of Predictive Analytics in Commercial Lines
In "Predictive Modeling Pitfalls: When to Be Cautious," published by Carrier Management last month, Ira Robbin from AIG presents a compelling case for exhibiting care when developing and implementing ...
$100M Project to Prepare Vulnerable Regions for Climate-Related Disasters
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Rockefeller Foundation are starting a $100 million project to prepare vulnerable communities for climate-caused humanitarian disasters before ...
Minova/BMS Rolls Out New Broker-Dealer
BMS Group, an independent reinsurance intermediary, is rolling out a broker-dealer division that will help, in part, to facilitate mergers and acquisitions and buttress its reinsurance business. ...
Allstate Reduces Private Equity and Real Estate Stakes
Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. auto and home insurer, sold about $300 million of private equity and real estate investments in the second quarter as values surged. "We thought the ...
Rate Slump Has Led to ‘Naive’ Risk Taking: JLT
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group Plc's Dominic Burke said the worst slump in prices for insurance policies since Sept. 11, 2001 has led some insurers to take on too much risk to win business. Burke, the ...
What Rating Agencies Really Want to Know About Your Catastrophe Risk
Preparing effective rating agency presentations is important to most companies, but when it comes to articulating catastrophe risk and large loss potential, there can be a disconnect between what ...