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2015 Tech Trends: Data Accessibility, Mobile and Migration
It's an exciting time in technology, and the rapid pace of innovation is inspiring, empowering and challenging the insurance industry. Technology mega-trends continue to offer great opportunities for ...
Big Data and Insurance: Coming to a Supermarket Near You
If supermarket chains wanted to get in the business of selling property/casualty insurance, there is a source of consumer information they might tap to identify the best risks that most P/C actuaries ...
Elements of a Properly Structured Business Continuity Plan
Effective business continuity plans are designed to provide a rehearsed road map for the most effective restoration of essential processes and functions after a disruptive event and therefore go hand ...
Why Underwriters Should Require Business Continuity Plans From Insureds
True or False? Companies that identify and develop disaster avoidance, mitigation, response and recovery plans are likely to suffer fewer strategic, financial and operational losses and less adverse ...
Underreserving, Balance Sheet Fundamentals Taking a Back Seat in Rating Agency Analyses
Loss and loss adjustment expense (L&LAE) reserving and reported income are but two components of a thorough, all-encompassing rating agency analysis of an insurer. Today, more than ever before, ...
Sunlight Drives Away the Shadows: The Value of Open Source
In its 20-plus years, catastrophe risk modeling had developed nearly insurmountable barriers to alternative views of risk. Except for the largest companies, insurers and reinsurers have had little ...
‘Industry’ Loss Reserve Studies Not Meaningful: Demotech Analysis
Insurance literature is replete with articles, analyses, studies and discussion documents related to industry loss and loss adjustment expense (L&LAE) reserves, the impact of L&LAE reserve ...
Top 10 Insurance Asset Managers Revealed; Market Forces Heighten Competition
Prior to the climactic year of 2008, insurance investment outsourcing had already been growing in a healthy fashion, but the financial crisis and ensuing developments have prompted greater sharing of ...