Content from Russ Banham
Russ Banham is a veteran insurance reporter, business journalist and best-selling author.
Treasure Trōv: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Path to On-Demand Single-Item Insurance
Scott Walchek is a serial startup specialist—the classic technology entrepreneur who conjures a way to do something better and then makes it happen. His most recent imaginings have centered on the ...
Network of Trust: How Traity’s Cartagena Is Improving the World, One Reputation at a Time
Does a person's online social networking reputation affect whether or not the individual can be trusted? Juan Cartagena is betting his company's future on it. Cartagena is the founder and CEO of ...
Commentary: Insurance Industry’s Chief Spokesperson Headed to the Halls of Academia
Whenever disaster strikes in the United States—be it economic, man-made or delivered by Mother Nature—the global media often contacts Robert P. Hartwig, the president of the New York-based ...
Insurers Welcome CDOs to the New C-Suite
Better late than never. Long lambasted as a technology laggard, the property/casualty insurance industry appears to be following the lead of other financial services companies like banks, accounting ...
Underwriting for the Modern Age
Back in the 17th century of Lloyd's coffeehouse, a ship set sail for the New World with insurance policies covering the hull and cargo. The task of the underwriters was to evaluate the risk of damage ...
The New Venture Capitalists: Insurance Companies
Property and casualty insurers are rich as Croesus, awash in capital and having a tough time figuring out where to put it. They can certainly invest (and largely do) in the equity and bond markets, ...
The Next Frontier of Alternative Capital
The alternative reinsurance market is on steroids, bulking up to represent an estimated 12 percent of the global reinsurance market, according to estimates from Aon Benfield. This may seem like a ...
Industry Consolidation: Too Fast for Some
There are many reasonable and compelling factors driving the ongoing consolidation of the property/casualty insurance industry, from a sheer overabundance of capital to an overwhelming need to reduce ...