CFO / Financial
Endurance Acquiring Montpelier for $1.8B
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. and Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced a merger deal today, which will have Endurance acquiring Montpelier in a stock-cash deal for roughly $1.8 billion. ...
Why Top Female Execs Earn Less Than Men: Incentive Pay Gaps
Even top female workers can't catch a break when it comes to pay inequality. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are out with a new paper on gender differences in compensation for ...
A Boardroom Guide to NAIC’s ORSA
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners voted to implement an addition to U.S. insurance regulation known as the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment Model Act back in 2011, but it is this ...
Exec Pay Stock Options Boosting Top CEO Pay by Billions: Reuters Large U.S. Co. Analysis
Chief executive officers at large U.S. companies collectively realized at least $6 billion more in compensation than initially estimated in annual disclosures in the five years after the financial ...
Hochberg Moves Up as CEO of JLT Re in North America
Global reinsurance broker JLT Re announced last week that Ed Hochberg has been appointed as CEO of JLT Re in North America. Hochberg, who joined JLT Re as part of the 2013 Towers Watson Re ...
Berkshire, Ironshore in E&S Top 10; XL Catlin May be Next: SNL Data Analysis
Berkshire Hathaway and Ironshore were among the top 10 writers of U.S. excess and surplus lines business in 2014, according to data compiled by SNL Financial. XL Group and Catlin Group haven't made ...
CNA, Aon, WING Host Women in Insurance Tech Event; SJU Leadership Event Next Week
Last week, CNA, Aon plc and the Women's Insurance Networking Group (WING) collectively sponsored the 2015 Voices Live Chicago Event supporting the growing role of women in insurance technology. The ...
Blackstone Buying Chicago Willis Tower for $1.3B
Blackstone Group LP agreed to buy Chicago's Willis Tower, the second-tallest building in the U.S., with plans to upgrade the retail and observatory space in a bet on growth in the city. The price was ...