Leadership & Strategy
Stop Hiring for Insurance, Tech Smarts; Hire for EI to Find True Leaders
On the second day of a two-day business and innovation event late last year, close to 2,500 executives sitting in the audience of Lincoln Center auditorium held their breath—literally—about 20 ...
Startup Constellation Insurance Holdings Raises $500M to Invest in M&A, Demutualizations
Constellation Insurance Holdings, founded by industry veteran Anurag Chandra, former CEO of Prosperity Life Insurance Group, has partnered with Canadian institutional investors, Caisse de dépôt et ...
InsurTech Deals at $4B So Far in 2019, Blowing Past 2018 Full Year
InsurTech funding levels, reaching almost $4.4 billion in worldwide funding commitments through three quarters of the year, has already surpassed the 2018 full-year total, Willis Towers Watson ...
The Latest Launches From AIG, Aon and Risk Strategies
AIG is planning a new syndicate at Lloyd's designed to serve the specialist U.S. high net worth market. Aon announced the launch of an Aon-wide group created to increase the value and holistic ...
A.M. Best’s Innovation Assessment Set to Roll Out in First-Half 2020
A.M. Best plans to start assessing innovation as part of the credit rating methodology it uses to evaluate carriers in the first half of 2020, Chief Rating Officer Stefan Holzberger said. The ...
How Companies with Bottom-Line Focused CEOs Perform
Doing business with a tunnel-vision focus on the bottom line can lead to dysfunction and unethical conduct in the workplace, but a research study co-authored by Rutgers School of Management and Labor ...
Nationwide Invests in Cybersecurity InsurTech Focused on Connected Vehicles
Nationwide said it has invested in Upstream Security, an InsurTech focused on providing cybersecurity for connected vehicles. Upstream's cash infusion will it enable OEM car manufacturers and fleets ...
Reinsurers Maintain Upward Pricing Momentum—But Will It Last?
Positive pricing momentum—it's the favorite phrase of many reinsurers, who are hoping that the momentum they've seen in 2019 will continue during the coming January renewals and beyond. The ...