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Joseph LoPorto writes on Credit Crisis and Captives in VCIA Captive Chronicle
November 03, 2008

Warren Buffett is famous for saying that it is better to be greedy when everyone else is afraid and afraid when everyone else is greedy. In the current environment, government bonds have risen to historical highs while virtually every other...



Outlook on Regulatory Modernization for Reinsurers
August 29, 2008

The regulatory framework for accreditation of non-US reinsurers and reinsurance collateral resurfaced at the spring NAIC meeting in San Francisco, California. In contrast to prior discussions of this topic strings of objectors did not line up. Instead, the Reinsurance Task...



Economic Challenges and Portfolio Solutions
February 11, 2008

Of Homes, Jobs and Market Spreads For more than a year now, the economy has been stressed by an increasingly severe housing recession. The severity of the problem has been felt in a flood of repossessions and loan write-offs, a...



Michael Walsh on Independent Pricing Methodologies
February 07, 2008

The unfolding of the sub-prime crises leading to a credit crunch has highlighted the necessity of reviewing the validity of independent pricing methodologies. Doing so will not only allow us to appreciate the difficulties that investors face in marking their assets to market, but also shed light on the challenges to produce realistic prices that are reflective of current market conditions...



Andrew Hofer on credit crisis in Economy & Financial Market Commentary
September 19, 2007

Credit crisis, liquidity crisis, what's the difference? In September’s Economy and Financial Market Commentary, Andrew Hofer, Head of the BBH Insurance Asset Management Group, describes the role of "liquidity factories in reverse" in today's fixed income markets....



Brown Brothers Harriman Welcomes New Relationship Manager
July 02, 2007

We are extremely pleased to announce that Jason A. Johnson has joined our Institutional Fixed Income team in New York as a Vice President and Relationship Manager. Jason will assume primary relationship management responsibilities for a range of current domestic...



Barry Connell and David Lee, CFA featured in Physicians Insurer
June 06, 2007

Barry Connell and David Lee, CFA talk about the importance of DFA modeling in asset/liability matching for insurance companies in "Flight Testing a New Investment Strategy", featured in the Second Quarter, 2007 issue of the Physicians Insurer. A pdf of...



A Turning Point for Medical Professional Liability?
May 29, 2007

Initial findings from our 2007 BBH Insurance Industry Asset Allocation Study shed light on this important sector. David Lee, CFA, our Insurance Portfolio Strategist, finds that allocation to municipals is growing -- as well as expectations for profit. Please click...



Core Select: A Prudent Way to Invest
March 31, 2007

With an average annual return of 10.4% for the S&P 500 from 1926–2005, U.S. equities have significantly outperformed bonds and most other asset classes over time. While the benefits of long-term equity investing are well known, many investors are nevertheless...



David Lee, CFA talks about CAT Bonds in Insurance Finance & Investment
January 30, 2007

The January 15, 2007 issue of Insurance Finance & Investment included an article written by BBH Insurance Portfolio Strategist, David Lee, CFA, entitled "Catastrophe Bonds: Expanding the Investment Frontier". The article first appeared in the 3rd Quarter 2006 Insurance Asset...



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