Leadership & Strategy
What Buffett’s Closing India Insurance Brokerage Says About India’s Potential
India has long been viewed as a value investor's dream: rapid growth, 1.2 billion people pining for a taste of globalization, and underdeveloped industries ripe for turnarounds. So it surprised few ...
Some Question Labeling 9 Global Insurers Systemically Important
Europe's insurers criticised the approach taken by international regulators which named firms considered systemically important as they try to reduce financial risks from the sector. Two global ...
A.M. Best Revises Give Thumbs Up To Lloyd’s
On Friday, A.M. Best Europe–Rating Services Limited announced that it revised the outlook of its A (excellent) financial strength rating for Lloyd's to positive, affirming the rating and moving the ...
Fitch Sees Limited Credit Improvement For G-SIIs; Predicts Some Will Work To Get Off List
Reacting to the Financial Stability Board's identification of nine global systemically important insurers, Fitch Ratings sees only a "modest improvement" in the insurers' credit profiles, with higher ...
Managing, Not Excluding, New Risks Key To Long-Term P/C Growth: Actuaries
Property/casualty insurers must learn how to manage new risks like nanotechnology, not just exclude them, if they want to survive and grow long-term, according to speakers at the spring meeting of ...
Allstate Selling Lincoln Benefit Life to London Group for $600M
Clive Cowdery, who earned a fortune cutting deals that consolidated the U.K. life insurance industry, is making a foray into the U.S. by buying a business from Allstate Corp. for $600 million (394 ...
Conn. Says Insurers Must Complete Climate Risk Survey
Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi has decided that about 110 Connecticut-based insurance companies will be required to complete a survey describing what they are doing to address ...
Are Insurers Finally Ready To Embrace Intellectual Property Insurance?
The small yet complicated niche of patent and intellectual property insurance has seen more interest lately as patent claims rise and companies look to protect their ideas or company trade secrets ...