Strategy
How ‘Prosumers’ and More Can Help Insurers Embrace the Digital World
Major shifts in technology and the way we do business are bringing fresh pressures to bear across the business world. Consumer expectations are shifting. Everyone has to raise their digital game or ...
Ironshore Owner Fosun Plans Massive Asset Sale to Reduce Debt
Fosun Group, one of China's most acquisitive conglomerates, is preparing to sell as much as 40 billion yuan ($6 billion) in assets as it focuses on raising its credit rating to above junk. After ...
Sciemus’ Move Into Specialty Underwriting: A Case of ‘Adapt and Thrive’
It was a case of adapt and thrive when modeling and analytics company Sciemus made a big strategic leap this year into underwriting space, power, mining, renewable energy and cyber—as a managing ...
Here Are 5 Ways to Build an Effective Executive Team
How does an executive successfully lead an effective team that gets the job done? Leigh Thompson, a professor with the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, has come up with five ...
Berkley Chairman: Brexit Risks Addressed With Liechtenstein Office
W.R. Berkley Corp.'s legendary chairman said that the insurer should see limited impact following the United Kingdom's vote to pull out of the European Union, due in large part to a risk management ...
Ironshore Tries New $100M IPO Filing; A.M. Best Worries Over Corporate Parent
Ironshore Inc., the insurer purchased by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International Ltd. last year, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. after a ratings firm cited concerns about the parent ...
Why Asian-Americans Could Be Ideal Insurance Customers
For an industry known to flood households nationwide with blaring messages of money saving techniques, the insurance category certainly feels comfortable loosening its own purse strings. Ponying up a ...
Brexit Fallout: Beazley Seeks EU License For Irish Reinsurance Business
Lloyd's of London's Beazley Plc is working to get European insurance licenses for its Irish reinsurance business to allow it to operate throughout the European Union, even if Lloyd's loses access to ...