The East Coast’s $100 Billion Event

October 29 marks the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy roaring ashore, destroying homes, businesses and infrastructure in its path. For those still on the road to recovery two years later, the ...

Capital Modeling: More Than Meets the Eye

If your eyes glaze over when the subject of capital modeling comes up, there are some enormous business benefits to what can seem like a regulatory compliance exercise. Capital modeling draws yawns ...

Why Company Culture Matters to CIOs

Many new CIOs make the same mistake. They've just been hired into their new position and have a mandate from those who did the hiring—the board, the CEO, an executive search committee—to "shake ...

Scottsdale’s Miller Asks: Are You Ready?

A page of the marketing materials for Scottsdale Insurance for 2014 carries the title: "Are You Ready? We Are." Under the title, a letter from the company president, Michael D. Miller, explains that ...

Détente & Other Good Intentions

How many of us will be proven wrong by year end? How many right? In a business where we are often judged—fairly or not—on an annual or even quarterly basis, the act of making predictions can be ...