Federal Regulation Charter Favored by Insurance Executives

At the Standard & Poor’s Rating Services’ 23rd annual insurance conference held June 5th, 77% of the insurance executives and principal market participants who attended favored an optional charter for insurance regulation. According to Grace Osborne, the leader of the S&P’s Insurance Practice, this finding was not surprising. “The insurance market is becoming increasingly global in scope, and the U.S. insurance industry does not have a single voice to advocate U.S. interests with the foreign regulators and various accounting regimes."

Published on June 8, 2007

More than 600 people attended the S&P conference held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's foremost provider of financial market intelligence, including independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, and data.