All the headlines from our S&P Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 24 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published its quarterly report covering the leading European insurers – Industry Report Card: European Insurance. The study concludes: “The current picture for...
Jun 23 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has affirmed its long-term “BBB+” counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Nigeria-based composite reinsurer African...
Jun 23 2005 // MetLife Inc. is well on its way to funding its $11.5 billion acquisition of Citigroup Inc.’s Travelers Life & Annuity.The New York City-based insurance company, which expects to raise $7.6 billion in debt and...
Jun 22 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “AA” long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings to Swiss-based Solen Versicherungen AG (SVAG), a wholly...
Jun 22 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “A” insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to Austrian insurers UNIQA Personenversicherung AG (UPV) and UNIQA...
Jun 20 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its long-term counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on American International Group Inc. to “AA” from “AA-Plus.” S&P also removed the...
Jun 19 2005 // At the midpoint of 2006, many commercial insurers are generating exceptional earnings, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. The article, which is titled “U.S. Commercial...
Jun 19 2005 // Cat model reassessments cause rating and capital changesLast fall’s disastrous hurricanes provided some rough times for the catastrophe modeling industry. Consequently the principal cat modelers – Applied...
Jun 16 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook on Channel Reinsurance Ltd.’s “AAA” financial strength and financial enhancement ratings to negative from...
Jun 14 2005 // Insurance brokerage executives at Standard & Poor’s insurance conference, “Insurance 2005: Under the Microscope,” expressed confidence Tuesday that brokers would survive the sunset of the...
Jun 10 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB” long-term insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to Taian Insurance Co. Ltd. with a stable outlook. As...
Jun 8 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services new assessment of the outlook on the U.S. reinsurance sector finds that it continues to be stable (See related article in “National “), “but only because of...
Jun 8 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has issued its assessment on the U.S. reinsurance sector, which concludes that it remains stable, even though there have been declines in pricing.S&P notes: “The...
Jun 7 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has assigned its “BBB-” rating to Kingsway ROC GP’s C$125 million (U.S.$100 million) 10-year senior unsecured debt, unconditionally...
Jun 7 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced it raised its counterparty credit rating on San Antonio-based Argonaut Group Inc. to “BBB-” from “BB+.”At the same time, S&P raised its...
Jun 3 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has lowered its long-term counterparty credit and senior debt ratings on American International Group Inc. (AIG) to AA from AA-Plus. Standard & Poor’s also removed...
Jun 2 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered to “A-” from “A” its counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on UNIQA Versicherungen AG (UV) as well as...
Jun 2 2005 // After experiencing its worst catastrophe losses ever (about $27 billion) in 2004, the U.S. personal lines insurance sector is showing signs of entering into a softer cycle than the hard one that has dominated the industry...
Jun 1 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its long-term public information-based (‘pi’) counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on Hungary-based Aegon...
May 31 2005 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has revised its outlook to positive from negative on Norwegian marine insurer Bluewater Insurance ASA, based on an improved view of the company’s...