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AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) to Covéa Coopérations (France), the holding company of société de groupe d’assurance mutuelle (SGAM) Covéa, a mutual insurance group in France. The rating’s outlook is stable. 6 January 2017
Insurance
The idea that some roles in the re/insurance industry could be replaced by robots or, more specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, appears to have become a reality this week with the allegation that Japanese insurer Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance will replace more than 30 employees with an AI system. 5 January 2017
Insurance
Pricing stabilisation will remain a major challenge for re/insurers and many buyers managed to improve terms and pricing in the year-end renewals, according to the latest 1st View Renewals Report from Willis Re. 3 January 2017
Insurance
Traditionally slow at deploying technology, insurers and reinsurers are quickly realising that they need to respond to technological advances and innovate in order to remain relevant to clients, but not all are likely to succeed. 2 January 2017
Insurance
Based on historic trends, insurers engaging in M&A are increasingly outperforming their competitors in terms of share price development, according to a report published by Willis Towers Watson, in collaboration with Cass Business School and Mergermarket: Measuring the correlation between acquisitions and share price performance. 30 December 2016
Insurance
The higher levels of catastrophe losses in 2016 could represent something of a wake-up call for the re/insurance industry after a number of years of benign loss activity – especially against a backdrop of a continued soft market in most lines of business, according to a number of senior executives interviewed by Intelligent Insurer. 30 December 2016
Insurance
Assessing growth as a measurement of the success of a merger or acquisition is much harder than identifying whether cost-cutting and synergies have been delivered, according to Paul Schultz, CEO of Aon Securities, speaking to Intelligent Insurer on how the success—or failure—of such deals should be judged. 29 December 2016
Insurance
The UK’s vote to leave the European Union will be the biggest event that 2016 will be remembered for with many market commentators citing the uncertainly it triggers as a big problem for the industry with a long and protracted negotiation process detailing the terms of exit proceeds. 29 December 2016
Insurance
One method of assessing the success or failure of a merger or acquisition in its aftermath can be through examining the impact—if any—on the surviving company’s ratings. But Dennis Sugrue, director of insurance ratings at S&P Global Ratings, stresses that ratings need to be viewed with a great deal of context. 28 December 2016
Insurance
The executives driving any merger or acquisition must set out clear strategic objectives and deliver on them—or risk getting fired in the aftermath of a deal if they are not met, according to Paul Clark, partner and managing director at Boston Consulting Group and a specialist in change management, speaking to Intelligent Insurer on how the success—or failure—of such deals should be judged. 27 December 2016
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