Leadership & Strategy
Analysts: Travelers/Dominion Deal Makes Sense, More U.S.-Canadian M&A May Follow
The Travelers Companies' decision to acquire Dominion of Canada General Insurance, a unit of E-L Financial Corp., for $1.1 billion makes strategic sense, according to analysts. The acquisition now ...
It’s Not About AIG, Says Berkshire’s Peter Eastwood
When a veteran of CNA joined Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance to lead the new venture's professional liability division last week, the news did not receive the press that the followed the first ...Russia Sets Back UN Global Warming Talks 6 Months
The United Nations global warming talks have been set back by six months after Russia and its allies blocked progress at a group charged with implementing decisions of the 190 nations involved in the ...
‘Great Rotation’ From Bonds Into Equities May Have Begun
Just as a month-long stock market rout seems to have further trashed the concept of a "Great Rotation" from bonds into equities, evidence is emerging that institutional investors may have already ...
Fallen Brand Leaders Hardly Ever Climb Back To The Top: Research Study
Business history is littered with the remains of fallen giants. Yuban coffee, Zenith, Kodak—all these brands were leaders in their time, and then something changed. At some point, they were knocked ...
P/C Carriers Lag Life Insurers, Brokers on Gender Diversity
Commercial property/casualty insurance carriers and reinsurers have more work to do than life and personal lines carriers or brokers when it comes to bringing more women into their leadership ranks, ...
Brokers Balk As Big Banks Push Cross-Selling Insurance, Loans to Wealthy
Scrambling to plug revenue holes created by crackdowns on credit card fees and falling brokerage commissions, big U.S. banks are pushing a strategy they've tried with limited success in the past - ...
P/C Insurer Advertising: ‘Mayhem’ Outspends ‘Good Neighbor’
Allstate's "Mayhem" trumped State Farm Mutual's the "Good Neighbor" in advertising dollars in 2012. According to an analysis by SNL Financial, Allstate's ad spend increased 14.8 percent year over ...