Content from Susanne Sclafane
S&P, Fitch Offering Clearer Windows Into Insurer Rating Processes
Since Standard & Poor's unveiled its updated criteria for rating insurers in May of last year, nothing much has changed with rating agency models, and few ratings changed in response to S&P's ...
Don’t Encourage Competitors
Those who listened to Alan Zimmermann, managing director of Assured Research, talk about the history of the reinsurance industry at the Casualty Actuarial Society's Seminar on Reinsurance earlier ...
Assessing Reinsurers: It’s About Talent, Not Capital
The movement of third-party capital into the reinsurance space was a constant theme of a recent seminar during which A.M. Best SVP Matt Mosher predicted that reinsurers will ultimately evolve into ...
Analysts Debate: Are Insurers, Reinsurers Too Risk Averse?
Have property/casualty insurers and reinsurers forgotten what they're in business to do? That was one of the questions that three industry analysts debated during a recent reinsurance seminar, when ...
Are Hedge Funds Poised to Make Berkshire Hathaway-Type Re Deals?
The subject of hedge fund-backed reinsurers came up unexpectedly when Carrier Management recently asked A.M. Best's Matt Mosher, senior vice president of rating services, about loss reserve ...
Rating Agency Views of Hedge Fund Reinsurers Diverge
While A.M. Best has assigned ratings of A-minus or better to five hedge fund reinsurers, Standard & Poor's hasn't yet rated any of the five and remains "skeptical" of their strategies, ...
Upgrades and Negative Outlooks: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
As the days counted down to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Fitch Ratings announced a string of favorable rating actions on several global reinsurers in late August. Fitch's Aug. 20 statement about its ...
Cincinnati Financial: A Matter of Trust
There was a time when the words "financial services" and "trustworthy" seemed incompatible to many people. But according to Forbes magazine, Cincinnati Financial Corp. tops the list of America's most ...