Performance
Dispatches From InsurTech Survival Island: Five Takeaways From Statutory Financials (Part 1)
"All the insurance players will be InsurTech" is a phrase we have uttered on many occasions in the past few years, but some InsurTechs have chosen to be insurers. Real insurers. Which means they file ...
Executives Can Learn Plenty by Just Listening
All a leader needs to do is listen, and that simple act can help improve or even turn around an organization that needs change, according to Margot Murphy Moore, a graduate of the Massachusetts ...
Liberty Mutual’s 2017 Net Income Is Nearly $1B Lower Than the Year Before
Liberty Mutual eked out $17 million in net income for 2017, after making more than $1 billion the year before. Record catastrophes, adverse development in its commercial automobile business and a ...
Hurricanes, Wildfires End Berkshire Hathaway’s 14 Consecutive Years of Underwriting Profit
Buffett, 87, Also Offered Few New Hints About His Succession Plans Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway's combination of insurance entities have recorded 14 consecutive years of underwriting profit ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Gained From Trump Tax Cuts; Insurance Division Took Cat Cost Hit
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was a big winner from the recent tax overhaul. Book value, a metric he's called a "crude, but useful" way to track the conglomerate's worth, climbed 13 ...
Aspen CEO O’Kane: Insurance Division ‘The Source of Considerable Poor Performance’
Aspen Insurance Holdings lost nearly $185 million in the 2017 fourth quarter, or $3.25 per diluted share. The struggling Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer also saw its consolidated combined ratio ...
How to Recover from Interruptions
Get interrupted at work much? Making a quick plan for returning to and completing the task you're leaving will help you focus better on the interrupting work, according to new research from the ...
Getting Teams to Work (When No One Wants To)
We love teams, but wherever we look, we see a sad truth: Most teams underperform. A large part of the reason relates to passion—often teams have members who simply have no interest in being there. ...