Growth Initiatives
Aon, Marsh & McClennan Fill Executive-Level Slots
Rival insurance brokers Aon plc and Marsh & McClennan Cos. both recently filled major executive-level positions. Over at Aon, Andy Weitz becomes the new senior vice president of global marketing ...
Report: PC Industry Increasingly Embraces Big Data Analytics
North American property/casualty insurers have moved well beyond cautious dabbling into projects involving big data analytics. At the same time, they must find more employees with advanced degrees in ...
Customer Experience, Stock Performance Linked: Watermark Consulting
Public companies ranked poorly by customers also saw their stock market values decline over the past seven years while leaders in customer experience soared past the S&P 500, a consulting firm ...
Chubb Eyes Biorenewable and Industrial Biotech Opportunities
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is rolling out new insurance products and risk-management programs for both biorenewable and industrial biotechnology outfits. New Jersey-based Chub defines ...
AXIS Capital Eyeing More Insurance Biz, Acquisitions as Re Market Gets Uglier
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. plans to expand the insurance side of its business to make up for lower earnings from the reinsurance segment. "I wouldn't be surprised now over the next couple of years if ...
Europe Beats U.S. in M&A Insurance Industry Deals: Clyde & Co.
Insurance and reinsurance industry M&A deals have picked up a bit in Europe and elsewhere. But they keep declining in the U.S., continuing to deny it the lead in a space it has typically ...
SAP Agrees to Buy Expense Software Company Concur for $7.3B
Germany's SAP has agreed to buy U.S. expenses software maker Concur for $7.3 billion in cash, strengthening its position in cloud computing, an area it long hoped to avoid until its momentum became ...
Citigroup Dives Deeper Into Derivatives Risks
In the past five years, the firm that took the largest U.S. bank bailout of the financial crisis increased the total amount of derivatives on its books by 69 percent, surpassing most U.S. peers and ...