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FOR NEARLY FOUR DECADES, ADWEEK has been recognizing the brightest minds in branding and marketing with our highest honor, the Brand Genius award. Once given only to marketers, the 2024 [...]

Name: Clayton Becker Title: President, Farmers National Company (FNC) Education: University of Missouri--Columbia; BS in Agricultural Economics Career: Syngenta (21 years). Head, Golden Harvest West Commercial Unit. Marketing Manager, West [...]

Byline: Lynn Rouse l Insurer appointments first and, on the specialist commercial side, Travelers has named two new assistant general managers. David Sawyer joins from QBE to take responsibility for [...]

Boardroom ructions at Italy's largest insurer NO NEED for a knife. The threat of forcible ejection and the offer of a huge [euro]16.6m ($24m) exit package was enough to convince [...]

Byline: Colleen McCarthy Robert H. Benmosche President and Chief Executive Officer American International Group Inc. New York HIS ROLE: Robert H. Benmosche took the reins at American International Group Inc. [...]

Metlife says the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority must learn from mistakes in the US when designing the target-date funds it is set to recommend as the default for personal accounts. [...]

Byline: Stuart Collins Insurers' reinsurance programs are more likely to feature capital-market solutions as cedents look for more bespoke, or customized, cover, experts say. Many capital-market products share characteristics with [...]

Byline: Sally Roberts Lizabeth H. Zlatkus was named executive vp and chief financial officer of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. in May. She has responsibility for corporate strategy, finance, [...]

Amid the economic turmoil, insurers' and reinsurers' ability to communicate their financial security is more important than ever. Since July 2005, GMAC Re has offered an unusual option for its [...]

Ceding insurers preparing for Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals should expect to have to reconcile differences of philosophy with reinsurers when it comes to pricing, terms and conditions, says Peter Hearn, [...]

Long the nearly man of American finance, Bob Willumstad hopes to revive AIG HE WAS, until this week, arguably the greatest financial-services chief executive who never was. In 2002, when [...]

BI VIDEO Reinsurance trends in new Re Views Global reinsurance industry leaders discuss market trends in Re Views, a series of video interviews produced by Business Insurance. In the latest [...]

Byline: Judy Greenwald Will former American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice R. Greenberg win support from other AIG shareholders for possible changes at the company? Observers have mixed opinions. In [...]

`Employers are finally beginning to understand where long-term care fits. Long-term care functions as a firewall around an employee's retirement plan.' -Mike Skiens, President, MasterCare Solutions [...]

With captive insurance having become a commonplace risk financing tool and captive formations continuing regardless of traditional market conditions, some suggest that the alternative risk transfer market is no longer [...]

In a keynote address to AARP's launch of the Women's Leadership Circle, New York Life Insurance Company's executive vice president, Ted Mathas, said that financial planning for retirement is, by [...]

Brokers: Willis Group Holdings Ltd. has appointed Kevin Downs as leader of its North American health care practice in Chicago. Before his promotion, he was health care leader for the [...]

Q: With all the educational options available today, what educational strategies should risk managers use to optimize their careers? A: Money, power and fame. These are three usually unspoken but [...]

Property/casualty insurance industry leaders have mixed opinions about industry prospects for 2004, at least given their responses to an informal survey at a recent insurance industry gathering. On the plus [...]

Seven years ago, there were fewer than 1,000 Web sites in the world and very few people knew exactly what the World Wide Web was. Today, there are millions of [...]

Eleven years ago, irked by an IBJ reporter's questions for a story detailing the area's highest-paid executives, former Conseco Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Hubert asked, 'Are you going to [...]

Bankers to Issuers: Sell Soon or Wait Y2K concerns are prompting bankers to suggest that issuers price their deals within the next few days or wait until the new year. [...]