Leadership & Strategy
Watsa’s Fairfax Financial Closes ‘Most Significant’ Deal Yet: $4.9B Allied World Acquisition
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Toronto-based investment and insurance company, has successfully completed its acquisition of Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings, for $4.9 billion – marking ...
Swiss Re Switches $130B in Liquid Assets to Track Ethical Indices
Swiss Re is switching the entire $130 billion it holds in liquid assets to track ethical indices, the latest move towards principled investments by the insurance industry. The world's second-largest ...
New AIG Global COO Zaffino Gets Initial Pay Package Worth Over $8.5M
American International Group's new Global Chief Operating Officer Peter Zaffino starts his tenure at the struggling insurer with an initial pay package worth more than $8.5 million, according to a ...
Entertainment Insurance Challenges Laid Bare by Fyre Festival Collapse
Already facing numerous lawsuits, Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland was arrested on federal charges last week. The government alleged he defrauded investors who bought into Fyre Media Inc., the ...
Trōv Founder Walchek: 7 Tips for Startups Partnering With Incumbent Insurers
Trōv is a tech startup that's introducing the world to a new way to insure their things: on-demand for any duration, entirely from a smartphone. We've had to reinvent the insurance ...
The Hanover’s Chaucer Acquires Lloyd’s MGA Focused on Sports, Leisure, Entertainment
The Hanover Insurance Group snatched up a Lloyd's managing general underwriting agency based in Australia, in a deal that will boost its competitive status there and also expand its overall specialty ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Will Become Bank of America’s Biggest Shareholder
Warren Buffett's company will become the biggest shareholder in Bank of America Corp, after Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday invoked its right to acquire 700 million shares of the second-largest U.S. ...
Investors Begin Nudging Companies to Reduce Carbon Footprint
Investors are slowly starting to push companies to reduce their carbon footprint and help the world meet targets on limiting global warming that were agreed in the 2015 Paris climate talks. Energy ...

