CFO / Financial
Actuaries vs. Underwriters: Can Analytics Bring Them Together?
It's bad enough that property/casualty insurance companies are trying to fend off competitors in their own industry—and potential disrupters from outside—both vying to steal good risks away at ...
PartnerRe ‘AA-‘ Rating on Negative Watch in Advance of EXOR Deal Vote: Fitch
Citing uncertainties related to the acquisition of PartnerRe by EXOR S.p.A and stressed conditions in the reinsurance market, Fitch Ratings announced that it is keeping the "AA-" insurer financial ...
CAS Launches Program Leading to Predictive Analytics, Data Science Credentials
Specialists in predictive analytics and data science will soon be able to add credentials reflecting their expertise to their résumés and business cards, provided they meet the requirements of a ...
Insurance CEOs Fearing ‘Uberization’ Eye Cognitive Computing: IBM Survey
The trend of "uberization"—industry disruption caused by an unlikely outside competitor—has become a key concern of executives in and outside the insurance industry, according to a new IBM study ...
What’s Ailing Zurich Insurance?
Change is underway to reshape some ailing General Insurance business at Zurich Insurance Group, according to the new chief executive for the unit, who described a corrective focus on profitability ...
Berkshire’s Q3 Buoyed by Investment Gains as Reinsurance Earnings Decline
While overall net income for Berkshire Hathaway more than doubled in the third quarter on the strength of more than $5 billion in investment gains, operating earnings from insurance businesses fell ...
The New Venture Capitalists: Insurance Companies
Property and casualty insurers are rich as Croesus, awash in capital and having a tough time figuring out where to put it. They can certainly invest (and largely do) in the equity and bond markets, ...
Top 10 Market Conduct Actions Against P/C Insurers: Claims Mgmt. Leads
Slow claim handling, the use of unapproved rates and a failure to provide required compliant disclosures top the list of market conduct actions taken against U.S. property and casualty insurers in ...