CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings has published a periodic review and update to its methodology for rating insurance companies. The revisions are published in an update to Fitch's global master insurance criteria, 'Insurance Rating Methodology'.
The update primarily reflects two modest modifications without any substantive changes made to the underlying criteria.
Relatively minor changes include details added to update Fitch's criteria for the case of ownership of an insurance organization by a supranational organization. Fitch now references supranational support criteria as the basis for the assessment of the impact of such ownership on an insurance entity's rating. Fitch also added guidelines for life insurers' asset and liability duration gap, to be used, when available, when assessing exposure to interest rate risk relative to asset/liability and liquidity management.
No ratings are expected to change as the result of these updates.
The full report 'Insurance Rating Methodology' is available on the Fitch website at 'www.fitchratings.com' or by clicking on the link below.
Additional information is available at 'www.fitchratings.com'.
Insurance Rating Methodology
https://www.fitchratings.com/creditdesk/reports/report_frame.cfm?rpt_id=881564
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