OREANDA-NEWS. Expert RA Rating Agency (RAEX) confirmed Zheleznodorozhny Insurance Fund insurance company reliability rating B++, which means "Acceptable level of reliability". The rating outlook is "developing", which means rating stability and change are equally likely in the mid-term.

Rating score is positively influenced by high deviation of the actual solvency margin from the minimum authorized capital, low net loss ratio and low ratios of accounts receivable and accounts payable to the balance currency.

Remaining decrease of insurance premiums and high share of administrative expenses prevented the Agency from assigning a higher rating. Expert RA is Russian rating agency working on a global scale, incorporated in 1997 by Expert magazine. Expert RA is a true market leader in ratings and survey-communication activity. Our purpose is to produce a new knowledge and transfer it to the society, business and authorities in an understandable way.

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