Core systems

With home prices still depressed and the FHA's grip on the market for low-down payment loans still firm, mortgage insurers are stuck in the same rut they were a year and a half ago.

Microsoft Moves Office to the Cloud

J.D. Power research also finds unbundled customers happier with insurance offerings.

Model intended to help insurers quantify the risk of wind and related flood loss in China and Hong Kong

Study estimates insurers will manage 50 times more data and 75 times more files in next decade.

Economic conditions lead middle-income baby boomers to reevaluate plans, with more women than men saying income now inadequate to pursue retirement.

Actuaries propose metrics as regulators here and abroad work to determine which companies pose a systemic risk.

A rapidly growing focus on “in-app purchasing” will help insurers better engage their mobile customers.

Questionable claims rose 23% from 2008 to 2010; California, Florida, Texas, New York and Michigan generated 49% of those.

While mutual fund companies in general are not embracing mobile technologies to the degree that banks, credit cards and self-directed brokerages are TIAA-CREF and Vanguard stand out in terms of offering research and trades via mobile devices, according to Corporate Insight.

Insurers will benefit from “better, cheaper, faster” initiatives tied to hosted services by taking a thoughtful, common sense approach.

J.D. Power and Associates: Kaiser ranks highest in employer satisfaction among fully insured commercial health plans; UnitedHealthcare ranks highest among self-insured commercial health plans.

As information sources continue to grow, Gartner report outlines three topics for matching technology with business interest.

Industry applauds as Roy Woodall is nominated to serve as voting member on board formulating rules regarding systemic risk.

Nearly 60% of Americans aged 50 and older worry about long-term care costs and don’t feel confident that they’ll be able to meet those costs; only 16% feel financially prepared to finance their long-term care, according to Sun Life Financial survey.

IT and business disciplines divided at universities, contributing to shortage of rounded knowledge workers, study finds.

Insurers testify that long-term reauthorization of NFIP is vital.

The bottom line message for insurers and others in IT is to better manage cost controls, customers and efficiencies in supply chains help to meet business needs.

manager job descriptions altering from traditional infrastructure focus to being business agile and innovative, says new study.

The Netezza release is specifically meant to tackle growing data sets from regulatory and compliance requirements in industries such as banking, insurance, health care and communications.