{"id":15854,"date":"2019-06-25T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/?post_type=oarticle&amp;p=4226220"},"modified":"2019-06-25T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T00:15:00","slug":"sp-and-fitch-upgrade-cno-financial-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/06\/25\/sp-and-fitch-upgrade-cno-financial-group\/","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P And Fitch Upgrade CNO Financial Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<span class=\"publication\">PR Newswire<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"featured-image left pull-box small pull-box hide-md hide-sm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/favicon.png\" class=\"attachment-medium-thumb-post size-medium-thumb-post wp-post-image\" alt> <\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div> <span><\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/span> <span><br \/>\n <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>Two ratings agencies, S&amp;P and Fitch recently &#8211; upgraded the credit ratings of CNO Financial Group. With these two upgrades, CNO Financial is now rated investment grade by all four leading ratings agencies \u2013 A.M. Best, Moody&#8217;s, Fitch and S&amp;P.<\/p>\n<p>CNO Financial Group is the holding company for several national life and health insurers including Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company and Washington National Insurance Company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased that S&amp;P and Fitch have recognized CNO for successfully reducing our exposure to legacy long-term care (LTC) liabilities with our 2018 LTC reinsurance transaction and acknowledged our improving operating performance and balance sheet strength,&#8221; said Gary C. Bhojwani, chief executive officer. &#8220;We continue to focus on our strategic growth priorities and launching new products and services to fulfill the life and health insurance and retirement income needs of middle market consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On June 21, 2019, S&amp;P Global Ratings raised CNO&#8217;s senior unsecured debt rating to &#8216;BBB-&#8216; from &#8216;BB+&#8217; and the financial strength rating of the company&#8217;s operating subsidiaries to &#8216;A-&#8216; from &#8216;BBB+&#8217;. The rating outlook is stable.<\/p>\n<p>On June 14, 2019, Fitch Ratings upgraded CNO&#8217;s senior unsecured debt rating to &#8216;BBB-&#8216; from &#8216;BB+&#8217; and the financial strength rating of the company&#8217;s operating subsidiaries to &#8216;A-&#8216; from &#8216;BBB+&#8217;. The rating outlook is also stable.<\/p>\n<p>On October 4, 2018, Moody&#8217;s Investors Service upgraded CNO&#8217;s senior unsecured debt rating to &#8216;Baa3&#8217; from &#8216;Ba1&#8217; and the financial strength rating of the company&#8217;s operating subsidiaries to &#8216;A3&#8217; from &#8216;Baa1&#8217;. The rating outlook is also stable.<\/p>\n<p>On August 26, 2015, A.M. Best upgraded ratings of CNO Financial Group to A-. Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2508354-1&amp;h=3345674603&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcno.mediaroom.com%2F2015-08-26-A-M-Best-Upgrades-Ratings-of-CNO-Financial-Group-to-A&amp;a=press+release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on CNO, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2508354-1&amp;h=1622778487&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnoinc.com%2F&amp;a=www.CNOinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.CNOinc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>About CNO Financial Group<br \/><\/b>CNO Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) is a holding company.&nbsp;Our insurance companies \u2013 principally Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company, and Washington National Insurance Company \u2013 primarily serve middle-income pre-retiree and retired Americans by helping them protect against financial adversity and provide for a more secure retirement.&nbsp;For more information, visit CNO online at <u><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2508354-1&amp;h=2793702733&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fcnoinc.com%2F&amp;a=CNOinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CNOinc.com<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/insurancenewsnet.com\/oarticle\/sp-and-fitch-upgrade-cno-financial-group\">Read the original article at insurancenewsnet.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PR Newswire Two ratings agencies, S&amp;P and Fitch recently &#8211; upgraded the credit ratings of CNO Financial Group. With these two upgrades, CNO Financial is now rated investment grade by all four leading ratings&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}