Data & Research
How American Families Deal with Financial Shock, Unemployment
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, "Making Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment," examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those ...
Risk Appetite On the Rise in U.S. Capital Markets: Fed Survey
Hedge fund and derivative investors are taking on more risk as aggressive monetary easing and an improving economy boost demand for higher-yielding securities, a Federal Reserve survey showed on ...
End of Men in Power? It’s Not Even Close
It's spring 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 years after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, ...
Report: 1 in 5 Californians Lives in Flood Zone
California is suffering from one of its driest winters on record, but some statewide water managers are focusing on the opposite end of the precipitation spectrum — the one-in-five residents who ...
Direct Writers’ Call Centers Lag Agents in Claims Service Quality: J.D. Powers
More property owners are filing claims with call centers run by direct writing insurers or online but these customers are less satisfied than those who file their claims using agents, new research ...
How Many CEOs Tweet Anyway?
During a session of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society D&O Symposium earlier this year, described in a feature article on carriermanagment.com, panelists debated the risks of ...
Lots Of Room For Improvement In U.S. P/C Industry ERM Capabilities: PwC
PwC's recent survey into enterprise risk management practices in the U.S. insurance industry showed that many companies are taking active steps to develop their ERM frameworks. However, the survey ...
New York Has Lowest Risk For Employment Recruiting: Aon Hewitt
New York is the lowest risk city in the world for recruiting, employing and relocating employees, according to rankings released by Aon Hewitt, the global human resources business of Aon plc. This is ...