Leadership & Strategy
Digital Innovation, Personal Service Can Help Agents and Brokers Keep Wealthy Clients
The global high-net-worth individual (HNWI) population has increased by 5 percent so far in 2016 to 16.6 million, with total global HNWI wealth increasing by 4 percent to $58.7 trillion, according to ...
Hiscox Helps Back Indio, a Commercial Insurance Broker Platform, in $2M Round
Hiscox is among the participants in a $2 million seed financing for Indio, a commercial insurance platform for brokers that aims to do what Sabre did for travel agents or Schwab did for wealth ...
A Handful of Wall Street Execs Still Avoid Using Emails or Texts
In an age when most bankers use keyboards to communicate with each other, a small group of the Wall Street elite refuses to say anything substantive in an email, text or chat, and some will not ...
Blockchain in Insurance: Applications and Pursuing a Path to Adoption
Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, quickly has become a fixation in the financial services industry as a result of its potential to revolutionize and transform our thinking about data ...
Aspen Buys Puerto Rico MGA as Part of Caribbean Marine Expansion
Aspen Insurance has made an acquisition that will expand its specialist Marine capabilities in the Carribbean market. The Bermuda-based insurer said it bought Blue Waters Insurers, Corp. Blue Waters, ...
Measuring Casualty Cat Risk: What Underwriters and Actuaries Miss and Why
Last month, I was invited to speak at the Casualty Actuarial Society Loss Reserving Seminar in Chicago, where I had the opportunity to challenge the existing techniques designed to measure ...
Super Regional Carrier Rises With Proposed BrickStreet Mutual/Motorists Mutual Affiliation
BrickStreet Mutual Insurance and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. announced they have begun to formalize an affiliation agreement between the two companies. By affiliating, the insurers said they'll ...
Driverless Taxis Poised to be Transformational for Mass Transit
Mass transit, the lifeblood of cities worldwide, is under threat from the biggest innovation in automotive technology since Henry Ford's assembly line first flooded streets with cars. The ...