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Many Pressures Will Spur More Insurance M&A Deals in 2017: Conning
Insurance industry M&A activity should swell through the rest of 2017 in all areas, with multiple factors driving the trend Conning said in a new report. "The property/casualty sector should ...
Innovation in Risk Modeling: How to Build a Plane While Flying It
When my partner, Vivek Basrur, and I started Karen Clark & Co. (KCC), we had no intention of building catastrophe models again. In fact, that's the one thing we said we wouldn't do. But after a ...
MEMIC Names Bourque, Its Longtime Communications Exec, as New CEO
The MEMIC Group named a longtime communications executive at the workers compensation specialty insurer as its new president and CEO. Michael Bourque will replace John Leonard as MEMIC's leader after ...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sells Fox Shares, Boosts American Airlines Stake
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Monday said it added to its sizable investments in American Airlines Group Inc and Southwest Airlines Co, and shed its stake in Twenty-First Century Fox ...
AIG Shareholders Have Yet to See Post-Bailout Financial Gains
Since its 2008 bailout, American International Group Inc. has delivered paydays for investment bankers, Warren Buffett and even departing executives. Shareholders? Not so much. AIG shares have lost ...
New AIG CEO Brian Duperreault: ‘I Didn’t Come Here to Break the Company Up’
New American International Group President and CEO Brian Duperreault began his first full day on the job publicly repudiating the idea of splitting the struggling insurer into pieces and simply ...
More Unethical CEOs Getting Fired for Lying, Cheating: Research
The number of chief executive officers fired for ethical lapses more than doubled in the U.S. and Canada in the past five years—a sign, researchers say, that corporate directors are increasingly ...
For AIG, Recruiting Duperreault as CEO Was an Expensive Proposition
American International Group's decision to recruit Hamilton Insurance Group CEO Brian Duperreault as its next leader won't come cheap. To begin with, AIG will pay Hamilton $20 million to release ...