---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-21-001055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RDN"
cik: "0000890926"
company_name: "RADIAN GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2021-08-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T12:12:26.182046+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Radian Group Chairman Herbert Wender to retire; Howard Culang named successor

## Summary
- Herbert Wender, Non-Executive Chairman since 1992, will retire after 2022 Annual Meeting.
- Howard B. Culang appointed as Non-Executive Chairman, effective after Wender's retirement.
- Culang has served as director since 1999 and chairs the Risk Committee.
- Wender's retirement is a planned succession; Culang also serves on Compensation and Governance Committees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-21-001055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RDN
- cik: 0000890926
- company_name: RADIAN GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2021-08-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890926/000115752321001055/0001157523-21-001055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890926/000115752321001055/a52476926.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001055
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001055.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001055.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Herbert Wender departed as Non-Executive Chairman at RADIAN GROUP INC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Non-Executive Chairman
  source text: Herbert Wender, the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board who has been a director of the Company since 1992, announced that he intends to retire from the Board following completion of his current term at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890926/000115752321001055/0001157523-21-001055-index.htm
- Executive change
  Howard B. Culang was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman at RADIAN GROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Non-Executive Chairman
  source text: the Board named Howard B. Culang to succeed Mr. Wender as Non-Executive Chairman following Mr. Wender’s retirement from the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890926/000115752321001055/0001157523-21-001055-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.