Executive Viewpoint
Lloyd’s Chief Beale, Other Leaders Offer Views on Possibility of Britain EU Exit
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to renegotiate Britain's ties with Europe and then give voters a referendum on European Union membership by the end of 2017. Following are the views of ...
AXA Chief Outlines Climate Strategy
AXA Chairman and CEO Henri de Castries spoke at Climate Finance Day on May 22 in Paris. The following are his remarks in which he discusses what climate change means for the insurance industry as ...
Get Social, Look Forward to Innovate: Chubb Chief Innovation Officer Bidwell
Like any property/casualty insurer, Chubb Insurance faces the challenge to refresh its business with new ideas. But unlike a lot of its peers, the Warren, N.J.-based carrier has a chief innovation ...
European Insurance Forum: Insurers Must Adapt Quickly to Multiple Changes
The long journey toward a unified regulatory system for insurance in the European Union—Solvency II—finally appears to be near its end. With that hurdle behind them insurers and reinsurers have ...
International Capital Standards: A Risk Management Mirage
The financial crisis spurred a wave of new regulatory proposals at the state, federal and international levels. Many of the new ideas in insurance supervision offer extremely promising ways to foster ...
Building Advanced Analytical Capabilities to Deliver Business Value
In the words of XL Catlin CEO Mike McGavick, we face "the imperative for robust use of advanced data and analytics." It's an imperative that XL Catlin has taken very seriously, for several reasons. ...
P/C Industry Risks Underestimating Walmart, Google, Other Market Upstarts
Those with long careers in the insurance industry have seen newer entrants founder on the shoals of our business. Many well-intentioned outsiders don't understand the innate complexities of the ...
A Practical Path to a Global Capital Standard for Large Insurance Groups
Now that the European Union's Solvency II is nearing its Jan. 1, 2016 effective date, you'd think some clear road might be ahead allowing insurance executives time to adjust to the landscape. ...