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How Insurers Can Become Top Companies For Leaders
Strong leadership is more than a competitive advantage. It is what makes companies world-class. Today, the need for effective leadership is unprecedented. Many companies say they invest in talent, ...
Four Distribution Steps For Successful Global Growth
Growth opportunities for insurers in developed markets are running out of runway and require increased efforts. Even though there is slow growth in some areas, regions such as China, India and Brazil ...
Why Greed Isn’t Good
Imagine yourself betting on the long- term survival of two types of people. One is the classic egoist, focused and ruthless. The other is more selfless, willing to help fellow humans without any ...
Gender Bias A Consequence Of SOX Financial Expert Rule?
In 2002, the federal government mandated that corporate boards of directors include at least one "audit committee financial expert" to help avert future accounting scandals. But the title and ...
Insurer Challenges In ‘Adapting’ To The Climate Change Resilience Gap
The frequency and severity of natural catastrophe impacts to built assets are increasing. Governments and their taxpayers are taking increasing shares of disaster relief from such events, creating an ...
Top 10 Workers Comp Writers Have Varying Results: Fitch
A review of statutory underwriting results for the top 10 writers of workers compensation at year-end 2012 reveals significant disparities in company underwriting performance. Market share across ...
Workers Compensation Market: Challenges Remain Despite Recent Improvements
The market for workers compensation insurance is in a recovery phase of the underwriting cycle after several years of poor results. In particular, premium rates continued to increase meaningfully ...
Renewable Energy Insurance Market Could Triple By 2020: Report
The renewable energy industry could be spending three times as much on insurance every year by 2020 to mitigate risks to projects, says a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance sponsored by Swiss ...