Content from Susanne Sclafane
Co-Pilots in the C-Suite: How CEOs View CFOs
Roughly two-thirds of insurance industry chief executive officers polled believe the role of their top financial officer will grow in significance over the next three years—beyond any other C-level ...
Zurich Org Chart Too Complex, CEO Greco Says
While Zurich Insurance Group's new chief executive officer believes the insurer is on the right track in terms of growth and profit, the organizational structure remains too complicated, he suggested ...
Unlike Buffett, S&P Sees ‘Considerable’ Climate Change Impact for Insurers
While the overall impact of climate change on the insurance industry is difficult to quantify, the multilayered effects of regulation, reputation and litigation will be "considerable" over the long ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Rolls Out Welcome Mat for High Net Worth Competitors
Estimating that the high-net-worth (HNW) personal lines market has more than $30 billion worth of business up for grabs, and the small commercial lines market, another $80 billion, Chubb Limited CEO ...
Human Robots: Will They Kill the Financial Services Industry?
We have been publishing a lot of articles about machines learning to think more like humans. But does that mean that we have to make humans behave like robots? The question doesn't seem like a ...
Is Ajit Jain’s Plate Too Full? No, Buffett Says
Among the insurance-related highlights of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, Neb. was Warren Buffett's answer to a question about succession planning for subsidiaries. "There are no tea ...
Straight Talk From Buffett on ‘Bearded’ Reinsurers
An oversupply of capital is one factor making reinsurance less attractive for Warren Buffett these days, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway said Saturday—making a specific reference to suppliers ...
If the Insurance Industry Were Netflix, Amazon or Apple
Like Netflix, Amazon and Apple, property/casualty insurers have been using analytics to understand their customers, but the similarity probably ends there for most insurers, one carrier analytics ...