Leadership & Strategy
Editor’s Letter: For Career Success, You Gotta Have Heart
If you grew up in New York in the 1960s like I did, you witnessed a miracle. The New York Mets, a major league baseball team that had been known as the "lovable losers" for their entire existence, ...
Why Is Personal Accountability So Challenging?
We can easily meet our boss's deadlines. We can get to the airport with time to spare before our flight. We can submit the team report a day before it is due. And yet, many of us let the goals and ...
Stable Insurance Learns How Not to Spook Capacity Providers
Back in 2015, Douglas Ver Mulm was co-founder of Vervoer Rideshare Fleet, which runs and manages rideshare vehicles in New York City—a side gig when he was a lawyer at Mercer handling data security ...
Argo Group Streamlining Continues: Two Private Equity Investors Will Buy Ariel Re
Argo Group International Holdings plans to sell Ariel Re to two private equity investors. Pelican Ventures and J.C. Flowers & Companies are the buyers, and the transaction is expected to close in ...
AIG’s Decision to Separate L&R Biz Risks Possible Ratings Downgrades
American International Group's plan to downsize by divesting its Life & Retirement business is drawing cautious and wary reactions from rating agencies that follow the property/casualty insurance ...
Argo to Leave Grocery, Restaurant and Other Retail Coverage Behind
Specialty insurer and reinsurer Argo Group International is exiting the grocery and retail lines of business, which include providing general liability and self-insured retention risk management ...
Insurers Back Biden More Than Trump, Give More Money to Republican Congressional Candidates
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has received more funds from insurance industry political committees than President Donald Trump in this 2020 election cycle. Biden has received $5.5 ...
Global Regulator Claims Too Few Companies Disclose Climate Change Financial Hits
Too few companies specify their prospective financial hit from climate change under a voluntary global disclosure code that needs wider backing from asset managers and others to be fully effective, a ...