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Building Golf Clubs for Underwriters
When John Beckman of QBE North America talks about his role as a chief underwriting officer, the "recovering actuary" and former chief risk officer of CNA repeatedly refers to the need to look for ...
Remote CEO: How One Leader Took the Reins During a Pandemic
When Scott Gunter contemplated making a move from being president of a commercial insurance division of Chubb to become chief executive officer of AXA XL, he felt the timing couldn't be better. AXA ...
From RMS to Archipelago: Shah’s Second Time Around
Hemant Shah is experiencing those old feelings again: exhilaration combined with occasional doses of being overwhelmed. Shah, co-founder and former CEO of catastrophe modeling firm RMS, is in the ...
Are Forever Chemicals a Forever Problem for Insurers?
Much discussion of casualty catastrophe is consumed with talk of the "next asbestos," the $100 billion insurance loss caused by a ubiquitous mineral used for insulation and other products that is now ...
Editor’s Letter: For Career Success, You Gotta Have Heart
If you grew up in New York in the 1960s like I did, you witnessed a miracle. The New York Mets, a major league baseball team that had been known as the "lovable losers" for their entire existence, ...
Why Is Personal Accountability So Challenging?
We can easily meet our boss's deadlines. We can get to the airport with time to spare before our flight. We can submit the team report a day before it is due. And yet, many of us let the goals and ...
Stable Insurance Learns How Not to Spook Capacity Providers
Back in 2015, Douglas Ver Mulm was co-founder of Vervoer Rideshare Fleet, which runs and manages rideshare vehicles in New York City—a side gig when he was a lawyer at Mercer handling data security ...
Not Monte-Carlo: The Future of the Rendez-Vous and Working in Reinsurance
It's been said that necessity is the mother of invention. That proverb took on new meaning for insurers and reinsurers as they successfully scrambled to conduct business digitally at the onset of the ...