Talent Management
Actuary is No. 4 on Top 200 Job List; Agents, Underwriters Rank Low
Insurance underwriters placed 67th, insurance agents landed at 158th and senior corporate executives came in at No. 132 in Careercast.com's listing of the 200 best jobs of 2014. This year, ...
New Trends Seen in Jailing of Former Two Sigma Employee for IP Theft
The plan was for Kang Gao to do his exit interview with Two Sigma Investments LLC, a $21 billion quantitative hedge fund in New York, and jump to Citadel LLC, a rival firm in Chicago. Gao never got ...
Executive Pay: Towers Watson Says High-Performing Companies Take Their Own Approach
High-performing companies pay their executives in ways that the rest of the pack don't. They think outside of the box and craft compensation packages based on their size and individual needs with an ...
Want Better Results? Learn to Say ‘Not Now, I’m Busy’
Modern office workers are expected to multitask regularly, often juggling multiple projects and priorities over the course of a day. Studies have shown that the typical employee in an office ...
Arch Shakes Up Exec Roster to Back Expansion Plans
Arch Capital Group Ltd. has taken steps over the last year to grow its mortgage insurance and reinsurance business, and has shaken up its executive roster in order to accommodate the expansion. Among ...
Computers Writing Earnings Reports
Unless you follow me on Twitter (@SSCLAF or @CarrierMgmt), you probably missed what I viewed as one of the recent highlights of the IICF Women in Insurance Regional Forum. There was lots of good ...
Less than Half of Workers Take All Their PTOs: Survey
According to survey of 1,000 workers conducted by Virgin Pulse, only 44 percent take 76 to 100 percent of their allotted days for paid time off each year, and 34 percent report take 50 percent or ...
RSA Lures Another Zurich Executive
RSA Insurance Group Plc hired a second Zurich Insurance Group AG executive to run its U.K. and European units, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Steve Lewis, chief executive officer of ...