Content from Susanne Sclafane
How They Stack Up: Analysis of Chubb’s Future Position in P/C Product Lines
Just a little over six months ago, ACE announced a deal to acquire the high-net-worth personal lines business of Fireman's Fund from Allianz, competing against Chubb, which holds the leading position ...
ACE-Chubb $28.3B Deal Took Just ‘Weeks’ to Put Together: Greenberg
FROM THE ARCHIVES: A VINTAGE CARRIER MANAGEMENT ARTICLE FROM 2015 "We are first and foremost builders. Insurance is a long-term business. We are patient," said ACE Chair and Chief Executive Officer ...
Sizing Up the P/C M&A Landscape; Analyst Wary of ‘Industrial’ Buyers
A fixed income analyst specializing in the property/casualty insurance sector is growing uncomfortable with a potential trend he sees developing in the M&A landscape—interest in insurance ...
Steering Wheels, Brakes Gone From Driverless Cars: Google’s Cerf
When Google started reporting accident statistics for its driverless cars in May, the technology giant learned something important that it has incorporated in the second iteration of its vehicles, ...
Inside the Minds of Insurance Innovators
Executives of property/casualty insurance companies are not always eager to share their ideas. Words ranging from "proprietary" to "secret sauce" are usually spoken as their representatives politely ...
A.M. Best Updates Capital Model Progress
With the rollout of a new capital model set for second-quarter 2016, A.M. Best analysts have made a key decision concerning a statistical metric they will use to calculate risk charges—a decision ...
About the Carrier Management/Jacobson Survey
While there have been many studies of succession planning, the Carrier Management/Jacobson Group survey is the only one to focus exclusively on P/C insurers, making it a valuable benchmarking ...
Successor Spotlight: Gross Takes the Helm at SECURA
Sometime after John Bykowski decided he would step down from the CEO role at SECURA Insurance, with a retirement date set for mid-2014, David Gross, the senior vice president of underwriting ...