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Powerful Predictions: Finding the Best Prospects With Analytics
Large financial services firms like Morgan Stanley are focusing on predictive analytics to accelerate growth among wealth management clients. Retailers, including CVS and Macy's, rely on analytics to ...
How American Families Deal with Financial Shock, Unemployment
A new study from The Pew Charitable Trusts, "Making Hard Choices: Navigating the Economic Shock of Unemployment," examines how American families cope with unexpected financial setbacks and how those ...
Guide To Preventing Class-Action Disasters Arising From Natural Catastrophes
According to recent estimates, total insured losses for Superstorm Sandy will total at least $25 billion. This figure dwarfs the $4.5 billion in estimated losses caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011. ...
End of Men in Power? It’s Not Even Close
It's spring 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 years after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, ...
Capital Wave Flows Into Re Market; Reinsurers Forced To Change
Willis Re reported this week that a wave of new capital—amounting to $35 billion—is currently flowing into the global reinsurance market, characterizing the capital market's activity as a "direct ...Greenberg’s View: AIG, Inside vs. Outside Directors and Arthur Levitt
Former AIG CEO and Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg warned against the movement to install more outside directors on corporate boards long before a group of outsiders took over American ...
Services Growth Could Signal Britain Will Escape New Recession
Britain's dominant services industry grew at its strongest pace in five months in January, a small boost to chances the country might narrowly skirt a new recession. Output in the sector, which ...
Direct Writers’ Call Centers Lag Agents in Claims Service Quality: J.D. Powers
More property owners are filing claims with call centers run by direct writing insurers or online but these customers are less satisfied than those who file their claims using agents, new research ...