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2020 (Re)Insurer Stock Price Performance

insurance
stocks
In this post, we review the 2020 stock price returns for US property and casualty (re)insurers.
Jan 31, 2021

2019 Global Catastrophe Losses

insurance
Impact Forecasting: Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight - 2019 Annual Report
Jan 27, 2020

2019 (Re)Insurer Stock Price Performance

insurance
stocks
In this post, we review the 2019 stock price returns for US property and casualty (re)insurers.
Jan 25, 2020

Sales Ten Commandments from former Goldman co-chair

A set of rules written in the 1950s…
Mar 21, 2019

Impact of Growth on Loss Ratio Volatility

insurance
risk
The goal of this post is to look at the impact of premium growth on loss ratio volatility. To do this, we will use…
Mar 9, 2019

2018 (Re)Insurer Stock Price Performance

insurance
stocks
In this post, we review the 2018 stock price returns for US property and casualty (re)insurers.
Feb 17, 2019

2018 Global Catastrophe Losses

insurance
Impact Forecasting: Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight - 2018 Annual Report
Jan 29, 2019

Bayesian Chain Ladder

Use Bayesian methods to replicate the Chain Ladder reserving method

Jan 12, 2019

Insurtech Financing - Q2 2018 Update

2013 to Q2 2018
insurtech
insurance
Oct 13, 2018

Insurtech Financing - Q1 2018 Update

2013 to Q1 2018
insurtech
insurance
Jul 5, 2018

The State of Artificial Intelligence

Notes from Andrew Ng talk
Below are my notes from Andrew Ng’s talk, “The State of Artificial Intelligence”. See the YouTube video.
Jun 30, 2018

Risk adjusted underwriting returns

Insurers can improve their capital allocation by applying lessons from successful CEOs in other industries.
insurance
In his book, The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, William Thorndike, Jr. profiles eight CEOs whose track record, as measured by total stock price return, far exceeded the…
May 21, 2018

Reimagining History - Counterfactual Risk Analysis

A summary of the Lloyd’s and RMS report
Reimagining History - Counterfactual Risk Analysis
Mar 9, 2018

Democratizing Data Science

data science
In a recent survey of insurance company executives conducted by the Ward Group, 25% of respondents strongly…
Mar 5, 2018

Aon’s 2018 Cybersecurity Predictions

A Shift to Managing Cyber as an Enterprise Risk
Key takeaways from Aon’s 2018 Cybersecurity Predictions report.
Feb 21, 2018

2017 Global Catastrophe Losses

Infographic from Impact Forecasting Report
Impact Forecasting: Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight - 2017 Annual Report
Feb 16, 2018

Do less to succeed in business

Most top performers in business have one thing in common: They accept fewer tasks and then obsess over getting them right.
business
How to Succeed in Business? Do Less by Morten T. Hansen
Jan 30, 2018

Allianz Risk Barometer 2018

Top Business Risks for 2018
2018 Allianz Risk Barometer
Jan 27, 2018

Book Summary - Dear Chairman

Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
book review
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism by Jeff Gramm
Jan 22, 2018

You are what you read

quotes
You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read.
Dec 12, 2017

Your smartphone is making you dumber

…and do you even care?
technology
In a recent Wall Street Journal article “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds”, Nicholas Carr lays out a compelling case for the negative impact of smartphones on our cognitive ability. Several…
Oct 27, 2017

Insurance Companies and The Third Wave

Partnerships, not disruption, with startups
insurance
insurtech
In a prior post, we reviewed Steve Case’s book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future, in which he outlines what he calls the…
Oct 23, 2017

Woodrow Wilson on preparing a speech

quotes
“How long does it take you to prepare one of your speeches?” asked a friend of President Wilson not long ago.
Oct 22, 2017

Digitization of Insurance Companies

Still a long way to go…
insurance
insurtech
In…
Oct 17, 2017

Underwriter of the Future

“Part actuary, part data scientist, still ultimate risk taker”
insurance
Brian Duperreault, CEO of AIG, in a recent interview:
Oct 9, 2017
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