Boardroom Agenda
Prem Watsa’s Fairfax to Pay $144M for New Zealand Insurer
Fairfax Financial Holdings Lt. will pay $144 million for New Zealand Insurer Tower Ltd. giving it an instant, significant presence in a growing, emerging market. Tower's board of directors has ...
Look Beyond the Quarterly Numbers
Focusing too much on hitting quarterly numbers can lead a company to make short-term moves that get in the way of long-term strategy. If revenue has become shorthand for whether your business is ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, Hamilton USA, Navigators and More
Chubb promoted one of its executives to a new position – chief digital officer. There's another newly-created position at Hamilton USA – head of Strategy and Innovation – with an up-and-coming ...
Allianz CEO Has $3.2B to Use for M&A. Will He?
Allianz SE Chief Executive Officer Oliver Baete has 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) to spend on acquisitions and is scouting for targets from Australia to Italy. Rushing into a deal would be a ...
Markel to Grab SureTech Financial Corp. for $250M
Markel Corp. will snatch up SureTec Financial Corp. for $250 million, in an acquisition deal designed to give it a leg up in the surety business. The purchase agreement is inclusive of a three-year ...Chubb CEO Greenberg Warns ‘Shutting Our Doors to Immigration Is a Mistake’
Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg has criticized recent efforts by new U.S. President Donald Trump to restrict immigration, and also expressed concern for nationalist and protectionist sentiment ...
W.R. Berkley CEO Chides P/C Companies for Fighting Change
W.R. Berkley Corp.'s president and CEO chided the property/casualty insurance industry for being slow to change and embrace technology to improve efficiency and meet customer demands. "We continue to ...
Uber, Daimler Link Up in Partnership for Self-Driving Vehicles
Daimler AG, the manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz, has struck an agreement with Uber Technologies Inc. to include the German company's self-driving vehicles on its ride-hailing network in the "coming ...