Core systems

Financial modeling continues to grow, though at a slower pace than in 2011, survey finds.

Research firm expects tablet shipments to outpace the entire PC market (portables and desktops combined) by 2015.

P&C operating results improved substantially, however, investment yields declined, as the impact of lower yields on reinvestments offset growth in the industry’s invested asset base.

As technological change accelerates and adoption rates soar, 10 pivotal trends loom large at the top of management agendas.

Ingenie, an auto insurer targeting young drivers, has selected SAS Office Analytics to analyze large volumes of data on driving behaviors and patterns in an effort to improve customer pricing accuracy and insurance premiums.

Specialty insurer chooses rating, underwriting, policy administration and billing software for workers’ compensation line.

Alaskan Governor Sean Parnell has signed two pieces of legislation designed to modernize insurance laws in Alaska and enable more online transactions and interactions.

The Healthnation system is expected to perform various financial management functions, including invoice generation, invoice aggregation, premium collection, premium processing and disbursement.

Several forecasts predict four major hurricanes and 10 or more total.

Upgrade designed to enable the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to track hierarchy, multiple program locations and divisions across all lines of business.

Thirteen insurers join amidst speculation that rates are going to skyrocket in the most-populous U.S. state when exchange enrollment begins on October 1.

Few companies are trying to build community among employees through social tools, and those that do are not impressed.

Insurer looks to use analytics for its $3.5 billion investment portfolio.

Partnership made in anticipation of integration with Vermont Health Connect, the state's health insurance exchange.

The latest damage reports from Monday’s EF-5 tornado solidify speculation it will rank among the most damaging in U.S. history.

New report from Strategy Meets Action outlines the transformation currently underway for portals, underlining the importance of building a robust enterprise-portal-technology platform.

LIMRA finds indexed annuity sales at lowest point in two years; though deferred income annuities sales increased 174 percent.

J.D. Power report ranks auto insurers' websites on shopping and self-service, and finds that web-usability trumps price among customers.

Mobility has moved from being a business convenience to an opportunity over the past two years, and insurers are turning to customer service to take advantage of that.

Smaller U.S. insurers with overseas parent companies are unlikely to be targeted by FSOC; American Council of Life Insurers defends foreign nonbank financial companies.