A.M. Best Ratings Are Now Available on the Bloomberg Professional Service.OLDWICK, N.J. -- Financial strength and debt ratings on insurance organizations and securities rated by the A.M. Best Company are now available on the Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. Professional(R) service, operated by Bloomberg LP. A.M. Best ratings that will be available to Bloomberg users include letter ratings assessing the financial strength of insurers, reinsurers and risk-bearing organizations throughout the world, along with letter ratings on securities offered by insurance organizations that have obtained a debt rating from A.M. Best. Ratings are available on thousands of insurers and securities covering the life, property/casualty (nonlife), health and other sectors of insurance. Best's Ratings 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. can be accessed by calling up information about a particular insurer An individual or company who, through a contractual agreement, undertakes to compensate specified losses, liability, or damages incurred by another individual. An insurer is frequently an insurance company and is also known as an underwriter. or security on Bloomberg Professional. Access to rating information from A.M. Best Company is available to all Bloomberg Professional subscribers at no charge. Bloomberg users can find the ratings listed for companies and securities rated by A.M. Best on the corporate DES <go>screens and the CRPR CRPR Centre Region Parks and Recreation (State College, PA) CRPR Coalition for the Restoration of Parental Rights CRPR County Rare Plant Register <go> function. The RATD RATD Report Aboard Trained Date <go> function will provide the rating scales and definitions for A.M. Best and the RATC RatC - Rationalized C <go> function will list rating changes from A.M. Best. Best's Ratings are issued for insurers in more than 65 nations. A.M. Best's worldwide team of analysts covers the insurance industry from three continents; the Company has been reporting on insurance organizations for more than 100 years. Available 24 hours a day to more than 260,000 professionals in more than 125 countries, the Bloomberg Professional service integrates data, news, analytics, multimedia reports and e-mail onto a single platform. Information from BestWire, A.M. Best's real-time news service, is already being distributed via the Bloomberg Professional platform on a subscription basis. BestWire is the real-time insurance news service supported by A.M. Best's award-winning team of professional journalists. Each day, they report on and deliver at least 20 insurance-focused articles to subscribers, including rating releases, press releases and news articles. Type AMBC AMBC AustralAsian Music Business Conference AMBC American Mountain Bike Challenge AMBC Australia Malaysia Business Council AMBC American Minor Breeds Conservancy AMBC Appalachian Mountain Bike Club AMBC Agile Manufacturing Benchmarking Consortium <go> on the Bloomberg terminal The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system that enables financial professionals to access the Bloomberg Professional® service through which users can monitor and analyse real-time financial market data movements and place trades. or call (908) 439-2200 ext. 5311 for information on Best's Ratings, BestWire News or other products and services from A.M. Best. 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 www.ambest.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: The "greater than" and "less than" symbols appear throughout this news release. These symbols may not appear properly in some systems. |
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