A.M. Best Expands Property/Casualty, Life/Health Financial Statement Databases to Include Six Years of Data.OLDWICK, N.J. -- A.M. Best Co. shipped the initial release of Best's Statement File--Property/Casualty and Life/Health--US editions on March 17 and 18, respectively. Each database presents six years of financial statement data for property/casualty or life/health single companies and groups operating in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The inclusion of a sixth data year provides additional information for users who want to perform five-year trend analyses. Other enhancements to the 2005 databases include the addition of a built-in Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. that allows users to access online features without leaving the product and an Excel Add-In Report Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. that guides the user through the process of extracting data directly into an Excel spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. . Data fields have been added, including stock exchange, stock ticker Stock ticker A letter designation assigned to securities and mutual funds that trade on US financial exchanges. symbol, Best's Rating Best's rating A rating A.M. Best Co. assigns to insurance companies based on the company's ability to meet its obligations to its policyholders. Outlook/Implication and Best's Rating Action. Data is released to customers at the earliest possible date to permit timely, useful analysis. Data flows scheduled for release in the coming weeks will present preliminary industry totals and Health Statement data. The Life/Health edition also will present Separate Accounts data. These releases will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in complete industry totals shipped by early summer. Both editions of Best's Statement File are presented as part of Best's Financial Suite CD-ROMs, which aggregate databases by industry or data type. Customers gain access via password to the databases they have purchased. Insurance professionals responsible for market research and business development use the information in Best's Statement File to evaluate their company's competitive position and to perform broad-based insurance industry research. A.M. Best has published this information in electronic format since 1992 and has been the world's leading provider of insurance industry information and ratings since 1899. For more information, contact A.M. Best at (908) 439-2200, ext. 5311 or visit http://www.ambest.com/sales/Statement. A.M. Best Co., established in 1899, is the world's oldest and most authoritative insurance rating and information source. For more information, visit A.M. Best's Web site at http://www.ambest.com. |
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