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BYOD: Benefits and Risks of Personal Mobile Devices in the Insurance Workforce
Cyber crime continues to be among the world's fastest growing criminal threats. This poses a challenging decision for companies considering adoption of the "bring your own device" (BYOD) trend, where ...
The Current Scientific Consensus on Climate Change and Hurricanes—It May Surprise You
While "scientific consensus" on climate change may sound like an oxymoron, there is consensus on three key questions about climate change and hurricanes, as demonstrated by recent reports from the ...
Designing a UBI Program to Fit Your Business Strategy
Usage-based insurance (UBI) for auto is often presented as a "one size fits all" solution to insurers' business problems. Tiny telematics devices that can be installed in policyholders' vehicles ...
Consolidating Reinsurance Towers to Gain Efficiencies
In addition to raising capacity and lowering reinsurance prices, the influx of new capacity from the capital markets is driving more flexible reinsurance terms and efficiencies that primary insurers ...
New Insurance Accounting Standards Are Coming: It’s Time to Get Ready
If you are like most insurance executives you are probably aware that changes are coming to insurance accounting, but you're probably not exactly sure what they are or why all this is happening. The ...
A New Year’s Resolution: I Will Protect My Portfolio from Rising Rates
As with personal resolutions and renewed avowals, the start of a new year is the perfect time for insurers to revisit the parameters and goals guiding their investment portfolios. Particularly for ...
Do You Have the Vision to Innovate?
Google the term "insurance innovation" and you'll get over 38,000 results. Probably not surprising, and as you would expect, the results are everything from an actual domain name to consulting groups ...
Inadequate Shareholder Disclosure and Other Killer Risks
While most of the killer risks that can torpedo a company exist within the walls of the organization, the deadliest—in terms of its hidden impact—relates to external communications, a risk expert ...