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What Black Swan Author Nassim Taleb Has to Say About Insurance
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015. When Nassim Nicholas Taleb addressed a group of insurance executives recently, the author of the book "The Black Swan" was pretty ...
How Great Leaders Build Community
Building community within an organization encompasses many activities, but here are three basic practices of great leaders. They develop strong personal relationships. This means spending time with ...Why Build Your Own Cat Model?
Insurers are using the new open loss modeling platforms to build their own catastrophe models for three main reasons: clarity, control and cost. Catastrophe models have become extremely important ...
What Might a ‘Cyber Andrew’ Look Like?
Every component of the world's public and private infrastructure is subject to the risk of a cyber attack. Companies today face loss of or damage to digital assets; theft of funds; security and ...
Is the Insurance Industry Going to the Origami Dogs—or Their Creators?
An unhappy customer arrives at the office of an insurance company executive by limousine to discuss concerns about the company's service. The scenario may not seem typical unless you're the CEO of an ...
Competition Consumers Deserve: PCI Opinion
Consider the scenario: A family of three suffers an accident and needs to replace several parts on their car. It's an expensive ordeal. And in our current system drivers are forced to rely largely on ...
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 ...

