Leadership & Strategy
Pace of Middle Market M&A Steady: Research Report
Merger and acquisition in the middle market is flat in 2013, according to a first-quarter research report, which attributes the finding to a stalled economy, challenges in Washington around tax and ...
Top 15 Global Insurance Markets: 2020
Peering into the future, Munich Re reported that the global property/casualty insurance market would grow to 1.85 trillion euros ($2.4 trillion) by 2020, also providing a breakdown of the largest ...
P/C Loss Reserve Position Stronger, Conning Says
The property/casualty insurance industry's loss reserve position improved in 2012, according to analysts at Conning, who estimate an overall redundancy of 3.3 percent of carried reserves in spite of ...
California Earthquake Authority’s First CIO Reflects C-Suite Trend
Technology veteran Todd Coombes' approach to his new job as the first chief information officer for the California Earthquake Authority is to keep an enterprising yet cautious eye on the risks and ...
Executives See Cloud Collaboration Aiding Execution, Innovation
Corporate executives increasingly look at cloud collaboration as a way to increase productivity, speed up business results and improve collaboration across functions. Sixty-four percent of more than ...
AIG to Invest $92.5M in China P/C Insurer
American International Group Inc. (AIG), which sold much of its stake in the Asian insurer AIA Group several years ago to help pay back the federal government for its bailout, is moving to reinvest ...
CFOs Express Growing Confidence in U.S. Economy
During the past year, chief financial officers (CFOs) have grown significantly more confident in the U.S. economy. The 2013 Spring CFO Survey from Grant Thornton LLP reveals that 45 percent of ...
Insurance Ops Still AA+ At Berkshire, But S&P Cuts Holding Co. Credit Rating
Applying a new group rating methodology to its assessment, Standard & Poor's lowered the counterparty credit rating for Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. by one notch—to "AA" from ...