CFO / Financial
The Bottom Line: The Early Read on 2021 P/C Earnings
For publicly traded commercial insurers and reinsurers that reported 2021 earnings in January 2022, net income soared nearly 40 percent, with double-digit premium growth and higher levels of ...
RenRe: Absorbing Over $1B in Weather Cats
Early last year, the leader of RenaissanceRe predicted that his company would put $1 billion more net written premium on the books in 2021 than it did in 2020. RenRe's President and CEO Kevin ...
AXIS Capital 2021: A Year of Repositioning
The word of the hour was "repositioning" during the earnings conference call for AXIS Capital last week, with the company reporting its bottom line in the black in 2021, following a net loss in 2020. ...
RLI: 26 Straight Years of Underwriting Profit
RLI's 2021 fourth-quarter represented Chairman Jon Michael's last quarter at the helm of the specialty insurer as chief executive officer. Craig Kliethermes, who took the reins as president and CEO ...
The Bottom Line: Earnings Reports for RLI, RenRe and AXIS Capital
For publicly traded commercial insurers and reinsurers that reported 2021 earnings in January 2022, net income soared nearly 40 percent, with double-digit premium growth and higher levels of ...
P/C Industry Profits in Current Cycle Lagging Last Hard Market
U.S. property/casualty insurers have benefited from significant increases in commercial premium rates for nearly three years. However, recent industry statutory underwriting performance improvement ...
Travelers Leaning Into AI, Tech as Earnings Rise
Reviewing the 2021 highlights of both a final quarter and a year that saw Travelers deliver double-digit returns-on-equity, the company's chief executive focused on technology investments aimed at ...
Reinsurers’ 2022 Profit Outlook Better Than Primary Insurers: Fitch
The trailing impacts of premium and loss trends on the books of property/casualty reinsurers makes the 2022 outlook for reinsurers rosier than the profit outlook for primary insurers, a Fitch Rating ...