Leadership & Strategy
ACE Unveils Post-Chubb Merger North American Management Team
ACE may have announced plans to acquire Chubb for $28 billion only a few weeks ago, but it has already designated a post-merger leadership team for the North American Insurance operations of the ...
PartnerRe, M&A Focused, Suffers Large Investment Losses in Q2
PartnerRe has enough on its plate juggling a proposed merger with AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. and an unsolicited bid from the Italian investment firm EXOR SpA. Now there is a sizable second-quarter ...
Language Seen as Critical Leadership Skill for Global CEOs
Facing thousands of Deutsche Bank AG investors, many of them mutinous, Anshu Jain knew a lot was riding on his speech at the annual meeting of Germany's largest bank. "On this day, every word ...
ACE Moves to Larger Singapore Space as Asia Expansion Continues
ACE Group said it moved to larger space in Singapore to help facilitate continued expansion in the Asia Pacific Region. Specifically, ACE's new operations entail 38,500 square feet housing more than ...
Most Western, Middle East Insurers See Iran As Attractive Market
Western and Middle East insurance specialists see Iran as an appealing $8 billion market in the wake of its nuclear deal with world powers, though uncertainty over when sanctions on Tehran will be ...
McGraw Hill to Grab Insurance Data Outfit SNL Financial For $2.23B
McGraw Hill Financial Inc. agreed to buy SNL Financial, the financial news and data services provider owned by buyout firm New Mountain Capital, for about $2.23 billion to add content on the banking ...
Data-for-Doughnuts Vision Inspires Auto Insurers to Chase Google
The restaurants and doughnut shops you pass on your commute would love to predict when you'll be driving by. Your auto insurer may already know—and could be looking for a way to profit from that ...
Beazley CEO Urges Lloyd’s of London to Revamp Data Systems
Beazley Plc Chief Executive Officer Andrew Horton called on Lloyd's of London to overhaul the way it manages trade information to make the world's oldest insurance market more efficient and globally ...