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CEOs in Their 60s Are New Norm With Companies Picking Older Bosses
Apple Inc.'s new chief executive officer joined the iPhone maker 25 years ago and was tapped for the top job at age 50. While that would have been a common trajectory for CEOs a generation ago, the ...
Traveling for Business? Don’t Forget to Pack Your Emergency Preparedness Plan
We live in risky times. War with Iran, the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Mexican cartels—global tensions are at an all-time high. The Department of State is advising Americans ...
Leave it to Me: Overconfident CEOs Less Likely to Delegate M&A Work
A new study finds overconfident CEOs are less likely to delegate responsibilities to underlings, particularly in settings that involve complex transactions – such as hammering out the details of ...
‘Too Much Space,’ Says State Farm CEO on Shuttering Corporate HQ
State Farm will be moving 13,000 of its 62,000 employees who now work in its Corporate Headquarters and the Illinois Operations Center in Bloomington, Ill., to another location— Corporate ...
AmFam Reports Underwriting Profit, Top-Line Decline for 2025
American Family Insurance reported $2 billion more underwriting profit in 2025, compared with 2024—pointing to "deliberate customer-driven strategic actions and a lower level of catastrophe losses ...
What Berkshire’s CEO Abel Said About Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive had the unusual task of reporting lower 2025 underwriting and investment income for GEICO and other insurance and reinsurance operations in his first report to ...
10 Dos and Don’ts of a Smart ORSA Report
My conversations with carrier CEOs, CFOs, and CROs about enterprise risk management and ORSA--Own Risk and Solvency Assessment—tend to go down the path of strict compliance and a sense of ...
Insurance Groundhogs Warming Up to Market Changes
Spring is not around the corner. It's more than a month away, Punxsutawney Phil predicted on Monday. But what is going to happen to conditions in the property/casualty insurance market? What lines ...