Strategy
XL Group Announces Acquisition of Global Ag Insurance Services
XL Group announced Wednesday that XL Reinsurance America Inc., a subsidiary of XL Group plc, has acquired Global Ag Insurance Services, a crop insurance provider based in the western United States. ...
ACE Establishes Eurasia & Africa Region Business; Names Regional Leader
ACE Group announced today that it has established a new business region, Eurasia & Africa, as part of its Overseas General division—the general insurance operations of the company outside North ...
AXA Seeking Acquisitions in Emerging Markets
French insurance group AXA is looking for more acquisitions in emerging markets, the company said after posting a 14 percent rise in full-year net income and lifting its dividend by 13 percent. Faced ...
Energi Insurance CEO McCarthy: Plugged Into Energy Revolution Through R&D
Just as there are best practices for managing today's energy risks, there are best practices for managing a company that specializes in insuring those risks. According to Brian McCarthy, best ...
What It Takes to Be a P/C Insurer COO: Executive Recruiter Views
The leaders of operations of property/casualty companies carry various titles and have a wide range of responsibilities—so different, in fact, that even industry executive placement experts have a ...
Does Your Company Need a COO?
Some P/C insurance companies have chief operating officers; some have more than one. Others have chief operations officers. All are C-suite positions. But does every carrier actually need a leader of ...
Beyond a Sense of Humor: What Does It Take to Lead P/C Operations?
When Carrier Management interviewed three chief operating officers and two chief operations officers of property/casualty insurance companies recently, all five said a sense of humor was one of the ...
The Challenges Around Big Data and the Lessons to Be Learned
The hype around big data is focusing ever more attention on insurers' data management and analytics capabilities. Analysis of data, creation of predictive models and the ability to take action based ...