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Global Warming Debate: Should Insurers Ditch Carbon Investments?
Insurers and reinsurers are applying underwriting and risk management expertise to support an environmentally sustainable future, but the question of exactly how they'll use investment dollars toward ...
Small Business Opportunities Hiding in Plain Sight
Sometimes, opportunities really do hide in plain sight. In 2007, I was running ACE's wholesale E&O and D&O business when I noticed that all the small accounts sat on the underwriter's floor, ...
Genetic Markers May Fuel Next Wave of P/C Insurer Asbestos Reserve Hikes
Actuaries and casualty insurance company financial officers who are not tuned into the revolution occurring in molecular biology may be blindsided by the next influx of asbestos claims, according to ...
How Great Leaders Value Their Employees
Organizations of all sizes and industries are reimagining work cultures in this relationship economy. It's all about the people. Consequently, servant leadership quickly is becoming the preferred ...
Measuring Embedded Portfolio Profit With Predictive Analytics
Predictive analytics rapidly is emerging as a must-have tool in the insurance carrier's arsenal. However, in most common applications, the power of advanced analytics is deployed from the bottom up: ...
Meeting the Challenges of Self-Service Insurance
As the global economy evolves and changes, insurers must also evolve to provide information and access to their clients across a wide range of channels if they are to avoid being left behind. ...
Stress Testing Your ERM Initiative: Is It Delivering What You Need?
Solvency regulation has entered a new phase in the insurance industry as in-depth, forward-looking insurer self-assessments replace reviews of past balance sheets in states where Own Risk and ...
Catlin’s Merger Driver: ‘A Duty of Care’
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015 The unexpected combination of XL Group and Catlin came after two years of trust-building communication between the leaders of the ...