Leadership & Strategy
Doing Well and Doing Good: Zurich Insurance Group Commits to Invest up to $2B in Green Bonds
You have a choice between two investment-grade bonds, both yielding a return commensurate with risk. One bond provides funding to projects that help avoid over 450,000 tons of CO2 emissions ...
Swiss Re’s Improved Financials Earn It a Ratings Upgrade
Swiss Re Group's good fortunes have helped give it a ratings boost. Fitch Ratings now ranks the company's financial strength rating as positive or A+, up from stable. A similar upgrade is in place ...
QBE CEO Neal: We’ll Keep U.S. Middle Market Biz
QBE has changed its mind about a possible sale of its U.S.-based middle market business, months after confirming that it was under strategic review. Why the change? It seems there's been a bit of a ...
A.M. Best: Global Reinsurance Outlook Turns to Negative
Citing "weakening operating fundamentals" for reinsurers at large as the market continues to soften, A.M. Best has revised its outlook for the sector to negative. "It remains difficult to stray from ...
QBE Responds to Profit Plunge With Plans to Sell Assets
QBE Insurance Group Ltd. plans to raise about $750 million in a share placement and sell assets including part of its lenders' mortgage insurance business in Australia after reporting an 18 percent ...
Google’s Driverless Car Impresses in Demo Run
The car stopped at stop signs. It glided around curves. It didn't lurch or jolt. The most remarkable thing about the drive was that it was utterly unremarkable. This isn't damning with faint praise. ...RiskMatch: More Carrier Benefits Summarized
While Kabir Syed, the creator of RiskMatch, stresses that he's built a system that is broker-focused, carriers are key beneficiaries of the information that RiskMatch extracts from brokers to drive ...
Taking a Test Drive: A Carrier CEO Tour of RiskMatch
A carrier CEO who logs onto RiskMatch—the new platform created by Kabir Syed to enhance the relationships of carriers and brokers—is greeted by a screen with a big number in the upper right-hand ...