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While progress in the traditional variable annuity market has been marginal, global analytics firm Cerulli Associates says there is promising opportunity in other business lines, including deferred income annuities and structured VAs.

Jay Woods and John Haldeman will lead the new practice from the New York office.

Specialty insurer turns to M&A to expand its presence in the mobile insurance market.

FireLight, an e-application business fulfillment platform, is designed with a mobile component as well.

Wildfire and flood claims were not enough to knock either sector off course last month.

Some of the same data analysis technologies being used by Western governments are cheap enough to be employed by financial services companies as well.

Accurately and consistently estimating the costs of major IT projects is critical for an IT department's and CIO's credibility.

TransRe, a global reinsurer has selected MetricStream’s federated information architecture, which is designed to support the full range of risk and compliance processes, enable multiple reporting facilities and link to existing enterprise.

Continued growth is expected, according to a new report from Conning, but insurers will have to deal with ongoing challenges that include hiring agents and implementing tech-savvy platforms.

GuideOne Insurance, a national niche market insurer, has deployed Guidewire’s ClaimCenter as its new claims management system. GuideOne is currently in production with ClaimCenter for its workers’ compensation line of business and is in the process of implementing its other lines including auto, homeowners, business auto, commercial property and liability in a phased deployment approach.

Software designed to help address cost barriers created by the high costs of in-car telematics devices.

SmartUBI software designed to offer a smartphone app backed by cloud-based analytics technology.

The wider market is potentially transitioning to a business model of managing multiple sources of outside capital.

Why do men and women behave and react differently in various business situations? Let’s look at the differences between the male and female brain.

Esurance has selected Modus as its telematics vendor for the DriveSense program, which is deployed across the United States. Modus is providing its full-service UBI solution including logistics, integration, application development, data warehousing and support services.

If insurers guarantee drivers’ premiums would not rise, 89 percent of recent survey respondents said they either would buy a usage-based insurance policy or are willing to consider the concept.

Insurer looks to emphasize collaboration and productivity with new software.

James Roser's experience includes insurance and IT work at Markel, Travelers and Accenture.

You don't have to go it alone. The importance of partnerships has always been an essential part of business and life. There's no need to recreate the wheel and create who new divisions within your company when a partner is there to help you.

In a new survey, most IT executives give their organizations failing marks for handling disruptions.