Strategy
Hartford Unloads Japan Operations for $895M
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. agreed to sell its Japanese operation to Orix Corp. as Chief Executive Officer Liam McGee narrows the U.S. insurer's focus. Orix will pay about $895 million for ...
Q1 Return for ‘Independent’ Aspen Nears 15%; Full-Year Target 10%
Aspen Insurance Holdings reported an annualized operating return-on-equity of 14.8 percent for the first quarter on Thursday, also giving double-digit forecasts for future years—targets which its ...
XL Group Opening Re Office in Dubai
XL Group's reinsurance segment is setting up new operations in Dubai, UAE, to serve the MENA market, XL announced Wednesday. The Dubai operation will serve as a regional hub. XL also announced the ...
SMA: Next-Gen Insurers Will Succeed By Innovating Inside and Out
Insurers of the future must innovate in everything they do, from their business models to products and services, infrastructure and customer approaches, a new research report from Boston-based ...
Keys to Setting Your Company’s Strategy in Motion
There's no shortage of discussion in the business world about the importance and development of strategy, but there's shockingly little advice available about actual implementation. Why is it, when ...
Lloyd’s Focuses on Brokers, MGAs, Capital in New ‘Vision 2025’ Plan Details
Lloyd's has published a more detailed strategy for 2014-2016, setting out how it will work towards achieving goals embodied in its "Vision 2025" Plan, describing "how the Corporation will support ...
Endurance Chips Away at Resistance to Its $3.2B Aspen Offer
Endurance's $3.2 billion hostile bid for Aspen Insurance Holdings took another nasty turn on April 21. Endurance's chief financial officer asserted in a blunt statement that the continued resistance ...
Livestock Producers Targeted By New U.S. Farm Law Insurance Plan
A plan in the new U.S. farm law to help dairy farmers limit losses from rising feed costs or falling milk prices may become a model in coming years for livestock producers who have resisted similar ...