Performance
Allstate Reports a Double-Digit Rise in Profits and Falling Claims Costs
Allstate Corp., the largest U.S. publicly traded seller of auto and home insurance, said first-quarter profit rose 13 percent as margins improved at the property- liability business and catastrophe ...
Buffett Scoffs at Notion of Berkshire Hathaway Being ‘Too Big to Fail’
Warren Buffett on Saturday rejected the idea that Berkshire Hathaway Inc, a sprawling conglomerate he has built over 50 years, has grown so big that it is now too big to fail and requires tighter ...
AIG Commercial P/C Profit Soars; $3.5B Stock Repurchase Planned
American International Group Inc. said it will repurchase another $3.5 billion in stock after first- quarter profit climbed 53 percent on gains at the unit selling property and casualty insurance to ...
Swiss Re Rallies in Q1 With ‘Acceptable’ Rate of Policy Renewals
Swiss Re, the world's second-largest reinsurer, beat forecasts with a 17 percent rise in first-quarter net profit on Thursday, boosted by strong investment returns, and said it was able to renew ...
P/C Insurer Mergers: Reaching the Tipping Point
The growing number of reinsurance mergers is understandable considering that the flood of alternative capital has upended the industry's economics. If companies don't lower their cost of capital and ...
Travelers Expands Share Repurchase as Q1 Net income Drops
The Travelers Companies reported a big drop in net income during the 2015 first quarter, and its combined ratio nudged slightly higher. Executives attributed the results, in part, to a drop in net ...
The Founder and CEO of Specialty Insurer ANV Abruptly Departs
The founder and CEO of ANV Holdings BV has left the company, according to an April 20 announcement from the Dutch-headquartered global specialty insurance group. R. Matthew Fairfield issued a ...
SCOR, Chubb, Help Drive Q1 Cat Bonds Issued to Record Levels: Aon Benfield
Catastrophe bond limit secured in the 2015 first quarter came in at $1.7 billion, the most of any Q1 yet recorded, Aon Benfield said in its latest status report on insurance-linked securities. Aon ...