Strategy
Lockton Re Imagined: Bringing Choice to Reinsurance Brokerage
While some reinsurance brokers see opportunities to achieve significant economies of scale in the reinsurance market through acquisitions, others see opportunities to grow by providing reinsurance ...
Amazon Adds Insurance and Gold to Financial Service Offerings in India
Amazon.com Inc. has added insurance and even gold to its menu of financial services in India, to expand its customer base and attract more subscribers to its Prime loyalty program in a battleground ...
Envelop Risk Paves the Way as InsurTech Reinsurance MGA
Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits. "We think we're the only InsurTech firm involved in ...
MGA New Paradigm Aims to Bridge the Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap
Evan Glassman saw a gap in the property insurance market—literally. Glassman, working as a retail producer in south Florida for most of his career, realized that the insurance industry's products ...
Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Apart
Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model. "For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a ...
From ‘Blue Sky’ Thinking to Groundbreaking Risk Initiatives
Sometimes we get in our own way. We think our ideas are crazy and rationalize them away because we see too many hurdles to overcome. Before we know it, we've tossed aside an idea that could have made ...
The Challenges of Leading an InsurTech; What’s Next for RiskGenius?
Chris Cheatham believes forming partnerships with QBE and Guy Carpenter were the two biggest milestones in the history of his company, RiskGenius, so far. But was there ever a time when he thought it ...
How Insurers Can Build Trust Through Customer Advocacy
For the average insurance consumer, the arithmetic is hard to ignore: The less insurers pay in claims, the more money they make. Thus is planted the seed of a doubt that so many policyholders seem to ...