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Why some reinsurers have weaker credit profiles than their rating suggests
17 September 2024Reinsurance carriers that are part of a group can often have different credit profiles than are implied by their credit ratings, as Stuart Shipperlee explains
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S&P to release draft capital model in second shot at reform
17 March 2023Rating agency responds to industry demands regarding model update
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Stress testing reinsurer resilience to reserve shocks
06 September 2022Stuart Shipperlee discusses Litmus Analysis' examination of 35 leading reinsurance carriers to understand their overall resilience to reserve shocks, and notes very significant individual variances
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S&P's capital model review: this could hurt
23 February 2022The rating agency's review of its capital methodology could leave insurers facing the prospect of rating changes and possible capital raising pressure, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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AM Best shifts cat risk assessment in BCAR update
10 November 2015Interest rate risk and dependence on reinsurance are the other key changes to calculation of insurer credit ratings. Asa Gibson reports