Performance
Commercial Insurance Price Hikes Slowed Again in Q2
Commercial insurance prices continued to moderate in the 2014 second quarter. This time, they inched up 3 percent in aggregate, versus a 4 percent increase in the first three months of this year, a ...
Can That Deadline Wait? Changing Perception May Spur On-Time Project Completion
Completing tasks and crossing them off the ubiquitous "to-do" list is a great feeling. But what about those nagging tasks we keep putting off? What's the difference between those jobs that get ...
Loeb’s Third Point Re Shares Challenged While Hedge Fund Thrives
Dan Loeb's foray into the reinsurance industry is proving to be more volatile for investors than his hedge-fund returns. Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm that relies on the ...
Industry Execs See Reinsurance Market Woes Continuing
The worst reinsurance market in memory looks set to carry into 2015, industry executives said. An absence of costly disasters and increasing competition from new entrants dragged on prices this year, ...AIG’s Chairman Says Leadership Change Follows Strategic Victory
The leadership transition at insurer American International Group Inc. is like switching generals after winning a war, Chairman Steve Miller said today. "We're changing generals as we move from ...
SEC Launches Tower Group Investigation
Tower Group International's situation has taken another turn for the worse, with news that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating the struggling Bermuda insurer and ...
China Insurers Market “Naughty Child” Coverage and Other Innovations
Your child throws a tantrum and smashes something? Take out "naughty child insurance". Similarly, buy cover against your bride becoming pregnant before the honeymoon, your team being knocked out of ...
Regional, Specialty Insurer Analysis: Broader Focus Enhances Profitability
Insurers focusing their business on a single state or coverage line experienced decent levels of premium growth in recent years, but they also recorded higher combined ratios than diversified ...