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What Investor Activism Means for Insurers—Those Under Attack and Those That Aren’t
Carl Icahn's demands for American International Group to split into three different companies may seem over the top to some. More importantly for the P/C market at large, however, is that the hedge ...
Welcome to the Future
Some observers have called 2015 "the year the future arrived" for the insurance industry. After close to a decade discussing the potential disruptive effects of big data, wearables, the Internet of ...
P/C Insurer Profits Pressured From All Sides in 2016
U.S. property/casualty insurers will mark a third consecutive year of underwriting profits in 2015, a feat unmatched since the early 1970s. However, market sentiment has shifted unfavorably as ...
Leader-Leader vs. Leader-Follower Cultures: How Great Leaders Share Leadership
We are on the home stretch for this series and will now focus on the sixth and last principle of what great leaders do differently: They share leadership. I hear a lot of language about how leaders ...
Ceres Analysis: How The Hartford Addresses Climate Risks and Seizes Opportunities
Companies that have been in existence for more than two centuries tend to be founded upon core values. In the business of insurance, which is predicated on the customer's trust that the insurer will ...
Top 5 Markets of 2015
There was no shortage of new products launched by the insurance industry in 2015. Cyber, a risk that has consistently seen a lot of activity over at least the last several years, continued to be on ...
It’s Not Halftime: The 114th Congress Just Finished the Third Quarter
The White House and Congressional Christmas trees are up, but with 70 degree weather in Washington—and without a government shutdown threat—it's hard to believe it's the holiday season. It's ...
Tasks Done by Agents, Underwriters, CEOs Can Be Automated: McKinsey
Machines can take over a chunk of the activities of nearly every one of 750 occupations studied by researchers from McKinsey Global Institute recently—including chief executive officers and several ...