Leadership & Strategy
Five Ways to Turn Top Performers Into Leaders
You know your company's top performers. And of that group, you probably have a pretty good idea which workers have leadership potential. But how can you help those top performers improve their ...
Seven Ways to Embrace a Customer-Centric Culture
The success of any business depends upon customer satisfaction. The cost of acquisition is high. Retention is vital, particularly in today's volatile market, where competition is driving prices down, ...
Mid-Sized P/C Carriers Increasingly Embracing IT Outsourcing: Novarica
Large numbers of insurers are relying on at least some form of information technology outsourcing to enhance their daily operations, Novarica found in a new survey of industry CIOs. The reason: ...
Travelers Profit Plunges 17 Percent, Slammed by Troubled Energy Investments
Travelers Cos., the only property-casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said fourth-quarter profit fell 17 percent as investment income declined on low bond yields and valuations for ...
Allianz: Business Interruption Remains Huge Risk; Cyber Gaining Fast
Business interruption is the top concern of risk managers heading into 2016 for the fourth year in a row, but cyber is a fast-growing corporate worry, according to a new report from Allianz Global ...
Ironshore Aims to Cover U.S./Canada Wood Frame Commercial Construction
An Ironshore division plans to start covering wood frame commercial construction products in the U.S. and Canada. Ironshore Global Property will accomplish this through expansion of its Builders' ...
What Investor Activism Means for Insurers—Those Under Attack and Those That Aren’t
Carl Icahn's demands for American International Group to split into three different companies may seem over the top to some. More importantly for the P/C market at large, however, is that the hedge ...
Icahn Ups Pressure on AIG CEO Hancock in Advance of ‘Vision’ Presentation
Activist investor Carl Icahn, who's pushing American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock to shrink the insurer and boost returns, said the CEO's presentation next week on ...