Content from Susanne Sclafane
‘We Start Businesses Instead of Buying Them,’ Berkley Says in Last Call as CEO
William R. Berkley's last earnings conference call as chief executive officer of the company that bears his name lasted just over 20 minutes, with a lack of questions about a less-eventful quarter ...
TransRe: Where Reinsurance Is Job 1
As a pure reinsurer, TransRe stands apart from hybrids that combine both primary insurance and reinsurance in their operating models. And that's a situation that CEO Michael Sapnar expects to ...
Knowledge Gaps and Convergence
Insurers covered $500 billion in catastrophe losses in the last 10 years. That huge number appears in Swiss Re's recent sigma report, "Underinsurance of Property Risks: Closing the Gap." It's hardly ...
Arch Capital: Growing the Hard Way
In spite of rumors swirling around Bermuda companies about potential mergers and acquisitions, Mark Lyons, chief financial officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd., said his company, a specialty insurer ...
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 ...
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, ...
Actuaries, Analytics Pros in Hottest P/C Insurance Talent Markets: Labor Study
In spite of fading carrier optimism about revenue growth and increasing activity on the M&A front, unemployment in the insurance industry remains near an all-time low. For carriers, that means ...
Good to Great Leaders
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote a New York Times Op-Ed titled "America Deserves a Servant Leader" in August, he described a leadership style that is growing in popularity among some of the ...