Performance
Study Shines Light On Link Between Customer Experience, Stock Performance
Companies that deliver a great customer experience are rewarded – by Main Street and Wall Street. That's the conclusion of a six-year analysis of stock market returns for companies that lead in ...AIG Adopts Clawback Policy, Employee Incentive Plans
American International Group, the insurer whose government bailout was marked by controversy over executive salaries, on Wednesday said its board adopted a clawback policy to recover compensation in ...
Lloyd’s Posts $4.5 Billion Profit for 2012
Lloyd's reported an overall profit of $4.517 billion for 2012, making the $800 million loss in 2011, the costliest year on record for natural catastrophes, a fading memory. Controlled growth in 2012 ...
Broker Exec Sees Price Shoppers Emerging In Bifurcated Casualty Market
The reasoning that carrier executives advance for increased prices of casualty insurance—starting with low interest rates and ending with the need for underwriting profit—is wearing thin on some ...
Should Firms Tie Bonuses to Competitors’ Performance?
The Federal Reserve is pushing banks to ignore competitors' performance when awarding bonuses, and focus squarely on their own profitability, according to pay consultants and other people familiar ...
CEOs Get Merger Bonus When Selling Firms Cheaply
In about one in every four deals, the CEO of an acquired firm is awarded a merger bonus. Also, target shareholders receive inferior premiums when their firms are sold, while their CEOs received a ...
17 P/C Insolvencies, Only One Cat-Driven In 2012: A.M. Best
Only one of 17 property/casualty insurance carriers that became financially impaired in 2012 suffered its impairment as a result of catastrophe losses, according to a recent study by A.M. Best. ...