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March 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Minimizing Reinsurance Risks A new Celent study finds tech investment, along with attention to people and processes, can help P&C insurers maximize their reinsurance recoverables.   |
Insurance & Technology
April 2, 2004
Peggy Bresnick-Kendler |
Virtual Roundtable Strategic claims management is essential for insurers to keep customers happy and ease the burden of servicing claims. Technology plays a key role in meeting the challenge. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Mapping Out Risks Seeing that many reinsurance executives want the convenience of conducting risk analysis themselves, Guy Carpenter & Company, part of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has launched the online risk management platform i-aXis. |
Insurance & Technology
December 6, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Automating Underwriting: Moving From Art to Science Automating underwriting can help insurers bring more objectivity and discipline to the process, define appropriate risk parameters and price products accordingly while improving efficiency, according to this panel of industry experts. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 19, 2011
Maggie Starvish |
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers? Insurance "reinsurers" underwrite much of the catastrophic risk insurance. Problem is, says Harvard Business School Professor Kenneth A. Froot, reinsurers themselves are in danger of failing from a major catastrophic event. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007 |
Techwatch Mobile Communication... Underwriting Automation... Reinsurance Admin... Call Center... Policy Administration... Pandemic Modeling... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Claims to Tame Experts weigh-in -- Q: What are the biggest challenges insurers currently face in the area of claims management?... Q: How does business intelligence affect claims handling?... etc. |
CRM
July 10, 2015
Anna Convery |
4 Steps to Using Automation to Transform Your Enterprise Leave decision making to humans, but automate (or eliminate) the processes that lead up to it. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Underwriting Updated How are insurers making the underwriting process more efficient to improve profits?... What emerging technologies can help insurers improve the underwriting process?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
March 16, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Battening Down the Hatches When it comes to predicting low-frequency, high-impact catastrophes, underwriters of risk must rely on thousands of years of scenarios rather than their proprietary loss data. |
Insurance & Technology
November 14, 2007
Frank Nutter |
Reinsurers Need To Address Catastrophe Risk and Regulatory Issues in 2008 Although reinsurers have been very responsive to the demand for risk transfer from the primary insurance companies in the past, it is a continually growing market demand |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
An Eye on the Future Insurance industry association executives speculate on the most important issues and challenges facing the insurance industry in 2007. |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Location, Location, Location Insurers' capability to respond quickly to catastrophes - on whatever scale - is extremely relevant to their mission. |
The Motley Fool
February 21, 2007
Emil Lee |
Platinum Underwriters Dazzles Thanks to an absence of major catastrophes, Platinum Underwriters had a great 2006 and provided a relatively strong outlook for 2007. Investors, take note. |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Business Intelligence Makes Insurers More-Competitive Risk Managers For most insurers, business intelligence means point solutions at best. But those carriers that weave analytics into the fabric of their organizations are equipped to drive more precision in pricing and greater profitability to the bottom line. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
IT Isn't Tapped for Compliance The insurance industry fails to embrace the full business value of IT when it comes to addressing regulatory requirements and instead relies primarily on manual processes and ad hoc measures |
The Motley Fool
November 27, 2006
Buz Livingston |
Berkshire Thankful to Mother Nature Berkshire's pricing, along with the dearth of reinsurance, has spurred rapid growth in the "catastrophe bond" market. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Wendy Toth |
Standards Drive Change Insurance executives and analysts examine the value of standards - and approaches to implementing them within the enterprise - at the September Insurance Standards Leadership Forum in New York. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2007
Emil Lee |
AXIS Shoots the Lights Out AXIS seems to be a solid insurer, and it's impressively managed -- enough to still make a profit last year. But even though the company has posted a stellar 17% average ROE since its inception, don't expect a gaudy 26.7% ROE every year. |
Insurance & Technology
March 18, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Enhancements To AIR System Streamline Workflow The latest releases of AIR Worldwide Corp.'s CLASIC/2 and CATStation contain two enhancements - AIR ImportExpress and the CEDE database - that allow insurer, reinsurer and broker users to import, analyze and share catastrophe risk management data faster and more easily, the vendor claims. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Arch Capital: The Cost of Excellence The reinsurer does seem a little pricey today, but if it's truly well-positioned to capitalize on this next leg of the insurance market, it may not be overpriced after all. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Can Platinum Reclaim Some Luster? The post-hurricane future looks sunnier, but reinsurance company Platinum Underwriters will miss income from finite reinsurance. Investors, take note. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Smart Companies New approaches to business intelligence are providing meaningful information for decision support -- not only to senior executives, but to managers at many levels of the enterprise, and with less intervention from IT. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
W.R. Berkley: Bold Yet Beautiful? For investors who want a bit of growth and are willing to take on some risk, this insurer might be worth some thorough due diligence. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Emil Lee |
Montpelier Re Basks in Fair Weather Overall, it was a nice quarter for the reinsurer, partly because there were few catastrophes, and partly because management made the right bets on writing more excess of loss contracts. |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2007
Coy & Aston |
Hurricane Ahead, But Lower Insurance Why the price of property coverage is going down in the face of dire predictions. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Relying on RenRe's Reputation If history holds true again, this reinsurer is poised for substantial growth and returns. Investors, take note. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 7, 2003 |
To Pay or Not to Pay: Business Weighs the Cost of Terrorism Coverage Nearly two years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, businesses continue to evaluate the threat of another catastrophe and try to gauge their own exposure to it. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2007
David Hofman |
Time to Master Disaster Natural disasters can have far-reaching negative effects on macroeconomic conditions in affected countries. Innovations in insurance can help countries manage the fiscal impact of natural disasters. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2007
Emil Lee |
How Berkshire Built a Super-Cat Powerhouse Berkshire Hathaway is the number three premium writer in the super-cat reinsurance industry. They got there by focusing on three crucial elements: speed, size, and security. |
Insurance & Technology
November 19, 2007
David A. Sampson |
Public Partnerships Critical For Insurers in Catastrophe-prone Regions Creating public/private financial partnerships is a critical step in stabilizing property insurance markets in catastrophe-prone regions of the U.S. |
BusinessWeek
January 16, 2006
Peter Coy |
How Hedge Funds Are Taking On Mother Nature Hedge funds hope to cash in on catastrophe insurance, whose price has zoomed since Katrina wreaked $38 billion in insured losses. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2011 |
Reinsurance Group of America Earnings Preview Reinsurance Group of America will unveil its latest earnings on Monday, July 25. Analysts strongly back Reinsurance Group of America, with seven of 10 rating it a buy. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2004
Richard Gibbons |
RenaissanceRe: Old-Fashioned Value? With compelling fundamentals and a good price, this insurer is promising. RenaissanceRe has grown its earnings 20% per year over the last 10 years, underwriting extremely profitably even in years when most reinsurers lost money. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Montpelier Re's Painful Lesson The company has changed its model and raised capital, and is back out there writing policies. Are these shares trading at enough of a discount to be enticing? |
Insurance & Technology
November 10, 2008
Anne Rawland Gabriel |
Medmarc 'AutoMates' Processes To streamline enterprise processes, including month-end batch jobs, medical insurer Medmarc reviewed potential solutions and eventually chose AutoMate. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Mike McNamee |
Watchdogs With Eyes Wide Shut As investigators pore over the books of AIG, it's becoming clear that for years regulators failed to detect lapses in the insurance industry. |
U.S. Banker
August 2002
Michael Sisk |
The Reinsurance Rush With nearly $30 billion in new capital, start-ups step in where others fear to tread in the wake of terror. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2007
Emil Lee |
Profit From Disaster? Here are some investment strategies for playing a possible insurance industry downturn. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Is Arch Capital the Top of the Heap? Second-quarter results suggest that Arch is a top operator in reinsurance. This isn't a value play, but it's hard to find quality trading too far below its fair value. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
XL Remains on the Road to Recovery This balanced insurance play seems to be getting its act together. Turnarounds are tricky in general, often requiring investors obtain a better-than-average appreciation and understanding of the industry. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2005
Matt Hudgins |
Who Will Bear the Risk of Terror? Insurance policyholders in 47 states are in jeopardy of losing coverage on terrorism-related losses after Dec. 31 of this year. The construction, purchase and leasing of new buildings and shopping malls, etc., could be cancelled or postponed if the federal backstop expires. |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
David Fairlamb |
The Tremors Shaking Munich Re Can the world's largest reinsurer stem the red ink and win back its sterling credit rating? |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2007
Emil Lee |
Does Greenlight Get the Green Light? Greenlight Re is one for investors to keep an eye on. Here's why. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2007
Emil Lee |
The Next Great Reinsurer? Flagstone Re has greatness in its DNA. Buying its shares could be a favorable risk-return proposition. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Flagstone Reinsurance Shares Plunged: What You Need to Know Shares of insurer Flagstone Reinsurance were quaking today, losing as much as 11% after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a huge tsunami hit Japan. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Marlene Y. Satter |
Careful What You Wish For Treasury proposes big change, but will insurance companies be happy? |
