External Perspective
Disruptive Innovation: Changing Mindsets for Success
"Disruption," "innovation" and "analytics" are three of the trendiest words in the popular press today. PwC's "18th Annual Global CEO Survey" shows that nearly 70 percent of insurance CEOs are ...
Re Pricing Trough Nearer, Says JLT Re
Midyear reinsurance renewals are now leading indicators of Jan. 1 conditions, JLT Re said in a report released earlier this week, suggesting that a reinsurance pricing floor is not far away. "In a ...
Where Can P/C Insurers Grow?
Property/casualty insurers on a mission to achieve strong growth over the next few years need to look beyond developed economies, a reinsurance broker advises in a new report. In the 10th edition of ...
Five Steps to Relevance
Insurers looking for strong insurance growth need to look beyond developed economies and they need to enter coverage areas for emerging risks like brand damage insurance, mortgage credit risks, and ...
Corporate ‘Giga’ Losses: An Avenue for P/C Premium Growth and Relevance
Opportunities for premium growth and for greater relevance are waiting to be tapped by insurers willing and able to cover corporate "giga losses" and take shares of U.S. mortgage credit risks, ...
Busting Myths About Underwriting Technology
Cutting your hair makes it grow faster. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Humans use only 10 percent of their brains. Most people assume those statements to be correct because they are so often ...
P/C Insurers Among Fortune’s Fastest Growing Companies
Even though growth seems hard to come by for property/casualty insurers, five made the top 25 of Fortune's 100 fastest growing companies published late last month. One of the five—Federated ...
Tier 1 Reinsurers More Resilient than Smaller Firms in Current Market: Fitch
Major tier 1 reinsurers stand to benefit most from a changing reinsurance market and mounting competitive pressures, while small monoline companies will be the hardest hit, according to a reinsurance ...