CFO / Financial
Loss Reserve ‘Conservatism’ Will Shape the Pricing Cycle
According to our analysis of loss reserves published in mid-March, the year 2020 marked the 15th straight year that the U.S. property/casualty industry's loss reserves developed favorably—by about ...
One Year In: How Insurers Are Doing on AM Best Innovation Assessments
In early March 2020, AM Best released Scoring and Assessing Innovation, our formalized criteria for measuring a company's innovativeness. Within weeks of its official launch, this methodology was put ...
State Auto CFO English Plans to Retire
The veteran CFO at State Auto Financial Corp. is retiring after 21 years with the company. Steven English, State Auto's senior vice president and chief financial officer, will remain with the insurer ...
Insurance, Tech Stocks Outpace InsurTechs in 2021: New HSCM Index
Stock prices of 18 U.S. InsurTechs that went public in the last decade soared as a group in 2020. But so far in 2021, large non-insurance technology companies and traditional insurance stocks both ...
Digital Maturity: The Path to Sustainable Value Creation
In the wake of current events, industries and economies worldwide are scrutinized daily. How have they weathered the pandemic? Who is best positioned in the aftermath? What lessons have been learned ...By the Numbers: Highlights of ACORD U.S. P&C Value Creation Study
The ACORD U.S. P&C Value Creation Study summarized results for the two types of value creators—sustainable and hollow value creators—and for value destroyers by company size (premium volume), ...
Defining Value Creation
Cash flow in excess of cost of capital was utilized as the primary metric to measure the amount of value generated by each of the 100 carriers analyzed in "The ACORD U.S. P&C Value Creation ...
InsurTech Summit Preview: Post-Pandemic InsurTech Usage Is at a ‘Leap Forward Moment’
Property/casualty insurers have talked for years about the need to modernize and embrace technology in order to serve their customers better. COVID-19 came along and rapidly quickened the process, ...