Featured
What Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb Has to Say About Insurance
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015. When Nassim Nicholas Taleb addressed a group of insurance executives recently, the author of the book "The Black Swan" was pretty ...
A New Era for Marine Catastrophe Management
While marine insurers remain well-capitalized, the line faces many risks. A protracted soft market has eroded margins, large losses have put pressure on rate adequacy, and marine cat experience has ...
How Great Leaders Build Community
Building community within an organization encompasses many activities, but here are three basic practices of great leaders. They develop strong personal relationships. This means spending time with ...
Will ILS Investors Run for Cover After the Storm?
Most industry pundits agree that alternative capital is now a permanent fixture in the reinsurance marketplace. Where there is less agreement, however, is whether more opportunistic alternative ...
Manmade Threats Growing
Manmade threats are becoming increasingly significant, bringing potentially huge losses to cities, which could present a major risk to the world's future global and economic growth, according to ...
File Splitting: Handling Claims When Coverage Is Unclear
The duty to defend and indemnify a policyholder is an important promise an insurer agrees to in an insurance policy. Though coverage may be clear cut in many claims, others may require additional ...
How to Build Your Own Catastrophe Model
Given the complexity of catastrophe models, at first it might seem impossible for you to build your own. This was certainly the case 10-20 years ago. But technology has changed since the ...
What Might a ‘Cyber Andrew’ Look Like?
Every component of the world's public and private infrastructure is subject to the risk of a cyber attack. Companies today face loss of or damage to digital assets; theft of funds; security and ...