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Allianz Q2 Profit Gain Aided by CEO’s Strategy, Fewer Natural Disaster Claims
As Allianz SE Chief Executive Officer Oliver Baete slims down the insurer to cut costs, rising second-quarter profit helped by lower natural disaster-claims rewarded his strategy. Operating profit ...
Advanced Analytics Can Help Insurers Boost Customer Service at Multiple Points
The one constant in insurance is that there will always be new innovations and trends that suddenly disrupt the industry. Some of the newest disruptive forces include the Internet of Things (IoT), ...
Saying ‘No’ Key to Strategic Success
How do you achieve "a durable advantage in the marketplace?" By understanding the difference between "operational excellence and strategy," according to Amy Friedrich, senior vice president of the ...
French Insurer AXA Moves to Cut Stake in AllianceBernstein With U.S. IPO
A week after Axa SA ousted Peter Kraus from its AllianceBernstein Holding LP unit, the French insurer is taking steps to reduce its financial investment in the money manager to raise cash for deals. ...
5 Steps to More Strategic Cost Management
The best-run companies see cost management as a way to support their strategy, searching for ways to cut bad costs so they can redirect resources to invest in their strengths, says a recent Harvard ...
A Handful of Wall Street Execs Still Avoid Using Emails or Texts
In an age when most bankers use keyboards to communicate with each other, a small group of the Wall Street elite refuses to say anything substantive in an email, text or chat, and some will not ...
CEOs Succeed by Making Time Alone to Think
One way the best CEOs get important work done is by pulling partially back from their executive staff in order to think and focus. Bain & Company partner James Allen argues that this is an ...
Fresh Strategies, Experience, Tech and Innovation Can Help Insurers Succeed
If guesswork is the enemy of business efficiency, then precision is efficiency's closest friend. Whether speaking about an automaker's assembly line or a consumer's wireless communications, this ...