Emerging Markets
Death Toll Climbs in Strongest Aghan Quake in 60 Years
Afghanistan's strongest earthquake in more than six decades shook buildings across South Asia, prompting officials from Kabul to Islamabad to New Delhi to send out rescue teams to search for ...
KPMG: Driverless Cars Could Drastically Reduce U.S. Personal Auto Insurance Sector
The U.S. personal auto insurance sector could shrink by 60 percent within 25 years as autonomous vehicles catch on, vehicles become safer and both trends reduce the number of accidents, KPMG said in ...
Executives On The Move at OneBeacon, Arch, ProSight, Aon Benfield and JLT
We have new hires and promotions to tell you about at OneBeacon Insurance Group, Arch Insurance Group, ProSight Specialty, Aon Benfield and JLT Specialty: *** OneBeacon Insurance Group brought on ...
Hackers Targeting $330B Space Economy
Space, the "final frontier," is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as hackers seek to gain commercial advantage from rival ...
Tizzio, Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg’s ‘Right Hand,’ Has Died at 77
Thomas Tizzio, a retired vice chairman of American International Group Inc. who was once seen as a possible successor to its former chief executive officer, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, has died. He was ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...
ACE and Chubb Shareholders Approve $28B Merger by Wide Margin
Shareholders from ACE Ltd. and The Chubb Corp. voted to approve their respective companies' $28 billion merger on Oct. 22 by wide margins. More than 98 percent of ACE shareholders participating in ...
Lloyds, China’s Taiping Insurance to Team on Global Growth Plans
Lloyd's signed a memorandum of understanding with China Taiping Insurance Group intended to boost cooperation between "the world's only specialist insurance and reinsurance market and one of China's ...