Risk & Capital Management
Fitch Sees Limited Credit Improvement For G-SIIs; Predicts Some Will Work To Get Off List
Reacting to the Financial Stability Board's identification of nine global systemically important insurers, Fitch Ratings sees only a "modest improvement" in the insurers' credit profiles, with higher ...
Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
NC Residual Market Prepped For Storms With $500M In Cat Bonds, HO Rate Hikes
North Carolina's two residual homeowners insurance markets have jointly issued $500 million in pre-event catastrophe bonds to ensure they have enough money on hand to quickly pay claims following ...
MetLife Nears Systemic Financial Institution Risk Tag
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, was moved to the last stage of a regulatory review that may impose extra Federal Reserve oversight. The Financial Stability Oversight Council, a group of ...
RMS Hurricane Model Update Coming; Lower Risk Indications Expected
When RMS releases an update for the catastrophe modeling firm's North American Hurricane model later this month, lower loss exposure estimates are expected, according to a representative of the firm. ...
RMS(one) Explained
When RMS developed its recently unveiled software platform RMS(one), the catastrophe modeling firm had a wide range of potential users in mind—many of whom are not accustomed to tinkering around ...
Senate Bill Would Again Separate Banking from Insurance, Other Financial Services
A small bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation that would break up Wall Street's megabanks by separating traditional banking activity from riskier financial services. ...
‘Breakaway’ Pricing Seen From Capital Markets Pressuring Traditional Re
With third-party investors putting increased levels of capital into catastrophe bonds, sidecars and collateralized reinsurance, pricing in the capital markets is now, for the first time, "decoupled" ...