Leadership & Strategy
XL Group Opening Re Office in Dubai
XL Group's reinsurance segment is setting up new operations in Dubai, UAE, to serve the MENA market, XL announced Wednesday. The Dubai operation will serve as a regional hub. XL also announced the ...
SMA: Next-Gen Insurers Will Succeed By Innovating Inside and Out
Insurers of the future must innovate in everything they do, from their business models to products and services, infrastructure and customer approaches, a new research report from Boston-based ...
Hacking Threat Is Real For Global Shipping Fleet
The next hacker playground: the open seas—and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet. In this internet age, as more devices are hooked up ...
Travelers CEO Fishman Bullish On Results, Promises ‘Selective’ M&A
The Travelers Cos. may have made a bold move in 2013 when it snatched up Dominion of Canada General Insurance. But the property/casualty insurance giant will be extremely selective about future ...
Mortgage Insurer MGIC Rallies As U.S. Housing Market Improves
Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp posted its highest quarterly profit since 2007 as fewer homeowners defaulted on their payments in an improving U.S. housing market, sending the company's shares ...
Keys to Setting Your Company’s Strategy in Motion
There's no shortage of discussion in the business world about the importance and development of strategy, but there's shockingly little advice available about actual implementation. Why is it, when ...
Lloyd’s Focuses on Brokers, MGAs, Capital in New ‘Vision 2025’ Plan Details
Lloyd's has published a more detailed strategy for 2014-2016, setting out how it will work towards achieving goals embodied in its "Vision 2025" Plan, describing "how the Corporation will support ...
Endurance Chips Away at Resistance to Its $3.2B Aspen Offer
Endurance's $3.2 billion hostile bid for Aspen Insurance Holdings took another nasty turn on April 21. Endurance's chief financial officer asserted in a blunt statement that the continued resistance ...