Moody's Global Insurance Outlook 2023
Discussion points:
Global P&C Outlook
- Claims inflation and pricing trends
- Natural catastrophe frequency and severity
- Impact of rising interest rates and financial market volatility
Global reinsurance outlook - stable
- Is property catastrophe reinsurance entering a true hard market
- Can reinsurers improve earnings in the face of rising climate risk
- How are rising interest rates impacting reinsurers’ capital
Global Life Outlook
- Benefit from higher interest rates
- Strong balance sheet and capital levels
- M&A likely to continue
- Diverse investment portfolio; downside risk driven by economic environment
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SpeakersMarc R. Pinto, CFA Managing Director, Financial Institutions and Global Co-Head of Insurance Moody's Ratings
Christian Badorff Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, EMEA Insurance Moody's Ratings
Helena Kingsley-Tomkins Vice President - Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions Group Moody's Investors Service
Manoj Jethani Vice President - Senior Credit Officer Moody's Investors Service
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Marc R. Pinto, CFA is a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group, responsible for insurance credit ratings and research as the Co-Head of Global Insurance. Previously, Mr. Pinto was the Global Head of the Funds & Asset Management Group and the Chief Credit Policy Officer for North American Banks.
Mr. Pinto is also an Executive Sponsor for Moody’s Network of CFA Charterholders and the Global Administrative Professionals (GAP) Network, as well as a Mentor Advisor in the Mentoring Program within the Women’s Business Resource Group. He is also a contributing member to Moody’s CORE (Creating Opportunities for Racial Equity) initiative. Additionally, Mr. Pinto is a member of the Asset Management Committee which oversees Moody’s US retirement savings plans and global pension plan.
Prior to Moody’s, Mr. Pinto worked as a sell-side, buy-side and credit rating agency analyst in both New York and London. He led Credit and Economics Research in EMEA and the Americas at Merrill Lynch, where he was also a top-ranked financial institutions analyst. Previously, he was the Head of Corporate Bond Strategy at broker/dealer Susquehanna International, a portfolio manager at KBW Asset Management, now part of Stifel Financial, and a Director at Fitch Ratings. Mr. Pinto began his career at the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome.
Mr. Pinto is a graduate of Columbia Business School and Trinity College (CT).
| Christian is a Vice President - Senior Analyst in the EMEA Insurance Team based in Frankfurt, Germany, and is the lead analyst for various primary insurers and reinsurers in the Benelux countries, Germany, Italy, the Nordics and Switzerland. Christian joined Moody’s in 2019. Prior to joining Moody’s, he was head of planning and performance management at Zurich Group Germany where he was in charge of planning, forecasting and reporting for the group’s German life insurance operations. Before that, he was a director and lead analyst at S&P Global, covering insurers in EMEA with a focus on companies operating in German-speaking countries. He started his career at Assekurata, where he specialized in assessing the investment management of rated insurers in Germany. Christian holds a degree in Business Administration from University of Cologne. |
Helena is the lead analyst for various primary insurance and reinsurance groups based in the UK.
Prior to joining Moody’s in 2011, she worked as an auditor within the insurance department of Mazars.
Helena holds a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and philosophy from King’s College London, is a chartered accountant and ICAEW Fellow.
Manoj Jethani is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in the US life insurance team within the financial institutions group at Moody’s Investor Service where he has lead analyst responsibility for a portfolio of US life insurers. Manoj is also a speaker at internal and external conferences and investor events on insurance related topics and maintains ongoing dialogue with investors, media, intermediaries, and rated insurance companies. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2006, he worked as an actuary at a private actuarial consulting firm in Stamford, CT and as a credit analyst at Mashreq Bank in Dubai, UAE where he was responsible for the monitoring and reporting of the bank’s retail product portfolio, which included credit cards, auto loans and personal loans.
Manoj holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems and Finance from the University of Connecticut and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Accounting and Corporate Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business.