Strategy
TransRe, Pillar Management Up Stakes in Pillar Capital to 50% Each
Pillar Capital Holdings Limited, a Bermuda-based insurance asset manager specializing in collateralized reinsurance and catastrophe insurance-linked securities, announced Tuesday that shareholders ...
RSA Lures Another Zurich Executive
RSA Insurance Group Plc hired a second Zurich Insurance Group AG executive to run its U.K. and European units, said two people with knowledge of the matter. Steve Lewis, chief executive officer of ...
AmTrust To Grab Florida WC Insurer With Low-Hazard Risks
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. said it will snatch up a a workers compensation insurer affiliated with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida (Florida Blue) in a bid to add more low-hazard risks to ...
Deal Analysis: Why Validus Is Buying Western World
The combination of Validus Holdings and Western World Insurance Group fills in "missing pieces" for both organizations, Validus' chairman said Tuesday, detailing finer points of a $690 million deal ...
ACE Now Has Major Stake in Siam Commercial Samaggi Insurance
ACE Limited has announced that the company and its local partner have acquired, through a mandatory tender offer, an additional 32.17 percent in The Siam Commercial Samaggi Insurance PCL (SCSMG), a ...
Validus Buying Western World for Nearly $700M
Validus Holdings announced Monday that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Western World Insurance Group for nearly $700 million, in a deal that leaves the management team and brand of the ...
Executive Insight: How to Elevate a P/C Carrier From ‘Good to Great’
Scottsdale Insurance Company began to look at its operation late in 2002 with an eye on the future and what it would take to continue its leadership position in the excess and surplus lines market. ...
Understanding the Flywheel; Revisiting ‘Good to Great’ Leadership Lessons
In his book, "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don't," Jim Collins uses the flywheel metaphor to explain that great companies aren't overnight successes. Instead, such ...