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Insurance & Technology
April 15, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Demand for Sophisticated Risk Management Capabilities Increasing Senior executives of many financial services enterprises, including insurance companies, now must rethink how they manage risk and, in particular, how they use predictive modeling to justify the risks that they take.   |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Can't Get No Satisfaction Recently released findings from an Ernst & Young Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services roundtable reveal that, in most companies, IT and actuary employees have minimal contact. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Risky Business To meet stringent requirements around reporting, security and accountability, insurers are implementing financial modeling tools. |
Insurance & Technology
March 2, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Greater Expectations In an era of fluctuating markets, terrorist attacks, tsunamis and back-to-back record Atlantic hurricane seasons, excellence in risk management is an increasingly important quality of insurance companies. |
Insurance & Technology
August 20, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
ERM Strategies Enable Insurers' to Play Stronger Offense as Well as Defense As insurers adopt genuine enterprise risk management culture, methodology and technology capabilities, they position themselves to price with greater precision and meet rapidly evolving compliance requirements. |
Insurance & Technology
July 27, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Investing Wisely Q: What are the key issues insurers face in terms of portfolio/investment management, and how are carriers addressing those issues?... Q: How can portfolio management systems and related technologies help insurers better manage, track and report on investments and financial performance?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
August 30, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Expand Views On What Can Be Sourced Externally Economic pressures, evolving technology and increasing comfort with partner management are combining to force insurance executives to expand their views of what can be sourced externally. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Mother of Invention Need for computing 'horsepower' leads Hartford Life to implement freeware grid computing solution. |
Insurance & Technology
May 28, 2008
Dori Dwyer |
Business Intelligence Capabilities Transform Accounting and Financial Systems True business intelligence (BI) capabilities are revolutionizing the value insurers are realizing from their accounting and financial systems. |
CFO
April 1, 2003
David M. Katz |
Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk. |
Insurance & Technology
November 26, 2003
Cynthia Saccocia |
Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005 |
Deja Vu All Over Again Many of the major areas of focus for senior insurance technology executives in the coming year will be familiar ones that have become even more pressing. Insurers will boost their offshore outsourcing activities and increasingly dip a toe into business process outsourcing (BPO). |
Insurance & Technology
November 10, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Will Power Insurance Industry Response to Crisis Technology spending will be a critical factor for insurers wishing to both take advantage of opportunities provided by the current crisis and address heightened compliance and risk management concerns. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Alan Lavine |
Tough Business Major players exit variable annuities, but VA sales are up overall. |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2006 |
October Techwatch Document Scanners... Policy Administration... PDF Automation... Legacy Renewal... Web Interface... BPM... IT Infrastructure Library... Actuarial Grid... Portable Storage... |
Insurance & Technology
December 8, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Patni Strengthens Actuarial BPO Offerings Expanded onshore consulting, risk management, and back office actuarial services answer an industry trend toward scarcity of actuarial expertise. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Grid in The Insurance Business IBM said it has created IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis, a new grid computing package to help life insurance companies cut the time needed to run detailed insurance model scenarios. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005
Cynthia Saccocia |
Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation. |
Registered Rep.
December 19, 2011
Alan Lavine |
Reps Face Insurance Challenges in 2012 Financial advisors are increasingly concerned about the financial strength of the insurance companies whose products they sell. |
Insurance & Technology
February 5, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
SFG Seeks Speed Securian Financial Group reports successful first steps on the road to greater speed to market with its new AdminServer system. |
Insurance & Technology
February 8, 2008
Tim Attia |
Agility in Product Development Can Improve Speed to Market Streamlining product development processes, building "product chassis" of common components, adopting agile enabling technologies, and modifying organizational structure to support product innovation all are ways to improve speed to market. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2010
Eugene A. Ludwig |
Discerning the New Financial Services Landscape The former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency and vice chairman of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, offers his views on what is likely to come out of upcoming reform legislation as well as areas that are far from clear. |
Insurance & Technology
March 5, 2008
David West |
Exclusive Research Report: Insurance IT Spending Slowdown Already Upon Us, TowerGroup Says Although TowerGroup previously observed an upward trend in insurance carriers' IT spending with an anticipated slowing in spending by 2009, the latest research suggests that the slowdown already is upon us. |
Insurance & Technology
January 17, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Constant Change The coming year's regulatory and political agenda could result in requirements for reform and increasing technology investments, which could alter the business environment for property and casualty, life, and health insurers alike. |
Insurance & Technology
March 2, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Retirement Market Boom Insurance companies that want to get a piece of the baby boomer market need to bear in mind that not only are boomers' needs more favorable to insurers than those of previous retirees, but as a group they are easier to pitch. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Not Risking It The availability of catastrophe models generated overconfidence among insurers, which, after the past hurricane season, are realizing the technology's limitations. However, insurers will still continue to rely on cat modeling to reduce risk exposure. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Vincent Oliva |
Take Risk Management and Compliance to the Next Level A seemingly never-ending wave of new compliance directives is perplexing insurance companies around the world, sowing confusion among insurers about how they should respond. |
