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American Family Wants to Go Mutual Holding Company Route
American Family Insurance plans to become a mutual holding company. The change would, in part, strengthen its ability to make acquisitions or pursue M&A transactions with other mutual insurance ...
S&P Conference Report: Distribution Costs Too High, Carrier Execs Say
The high cost of distribution was top of mind for chief executive officers speaking at the Standard & Poor's 2016 Insurance Conference on Wednesday. "If somebody asks you to donate a dollar to a ...
Allianz’s PIMCO Plans Job Cuts After Asset Drop
Pacific Investment Management Co. plans to cut its workforce by 68 people, or about 3 percent, and offer buyouts as assets under management have fallen since the September 2014 departure of Bill ...
Ex-Morgan Stanley Banker/M&A Pro Joins W.R. Berkley in Strategy Role
W.R. Berkley Corp., the Greenwich, Connecticut-based commercial insurer, named former Morgan Stanley investment banker Jared Abbey as senior vice president for corporate strategy and development. ...
Executives On The Move at W.R. Berkley, XL Catlin, Guy Carpenter and More
A new executive joined a W.R. Berkley Corp. division. XL Catlin hired a Chubb veteran to lead its Excess & Surplus lines business. At Selective Insurance Group, a division made a number of new ...
Marketform Rebrands as ‘Neon’ After Completing Strategic Review
Marketform, the specialist Lloyd's insurer, announced that the group has re-launched as "Neon." The re-launch coincides with the completion of a strategic review of the business, as CEO Martin Reith ...
Zurich Org Change Not Radical, CEO Greco Says; Financial Targets to Come
Structural changes revealed at Zurich Insurance Group late last week are nothing radical, according to the CEO, who says the simple intent is to organize the company "around the customer" and ease ...
Lunch With Warren Buffett Will Cost an Anonymous Bidder $3.46M
An anonymous bidder agreed at auction to pay $3,456,789 to eat lunch with Warren Buffett, tying the record for the right to dine with one of the world's most admired investors. Money will go to ...