External Perspective
Are You A Magnet For Talent?
There's a talent crisis looming. Your best assets walk out the door every night, and you need leaders to help steer and guide the company through these unprecedented times. Unless you've been asleep ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Soft Stuff Is Often The Hardest: Change Management Critical In PAS Transformation
Over the past year, we've seen an unprecedented investment by small and midsize carriers in policy administration transformation. Carriers that experience successful PAS implementations will be well ...
Casualty ILS: The Time Has Come
The accelerating convergence of insurance and reinsurance with capital markets and the resulting effect on the traditional insurance and reinsurance business model have topped the insurance news ...
Old-Fashioned Regulators Miss What’s New in Finance
Is the financial system any safer now than in 2008? There's been some progress but less than you might think. I argued last week that regulators should put in place much tougher bank capital ...
Full Disclosure: Climate Change May Prove Risky For Insurers
Insurance companies are in a tricky position when it comes to the issue of climate change. On the one hand, virtually all of them insure policyholders facing the risk of a climate change liability ...