Leadership & Strategy
Swiss Re Predicts SofBank Stake in Reinsurer Won’t Exceed 10%
Billionaire Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp. is likely to take a stake of 10 percent or less in Swiss Re AG as it seeks to gain a foothold in the cash-rich reinsurance industry. The Swiss ...
Predictive Analytics Help Commercial Lines Insurers Boost Profit, Reduce Underwriting Volatility: A.M. Best
The increasing use of predictive analytics among commercial lines insurers has helped improve their bottom lines and led to more balanced underwriting cycles, A.M. Best concluded in a new special ...
MGAs Are Increasingly Taking on Carrier Business Practices
Among the most profound changes in commercial insurance over the past decade has been the growing role of managing general agencies (MGAs) as measured by premium volume and by the growing scope of ...
The Latest Launches From Everest Re and AIG’s Travel Guard
Everest Re Group is now offering a broad cyber insurance policy that provides risk mitigation/remediation services to companies in multiple industries. A division of AIG has launched in Canada a form ...
White Mountains Will Acquire Majority Stake in NSM, a Specialty Insurance Program Administrator
White Mountains Insurance Group plans to acquire a majority equity stake in NSM Insurance Group, a specialty insurance program administrator. The transaction values NSM at about $388 million and ...
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 3)
Founders and investors in InsurTech carriers need to prepare themselves—mentally and financially—for a long rough road to profitability, and they need to find reinsurers who are both flexible and ...
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 1)
"All the insurance players will be InsurTech" is a phrase we have uttered on many occasions in the past few years, but some InsurTechs have chosen to be insurers. Real insurers. Which means they file ...
AIG CEO Duperreault Has Hired or Promoted at Least 13 Senior Execs in First Year
Brian Duperreault has hired or promoted from within at least 13 senior executives at American International Group since he rejoined the insurance giant nearly a year ago. Duperreault, in his letter ...