Data and information management

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

If we collectively suffer from a bad rap, it's because our industry lacks a community of leaders that can act as an organized front—a cohesive voice that can rebrand insurance as a prominent and respected force in financial services.

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

Insurance is said to be leading a tepid revival in IT spending for 2011, but the overall picture is anything but encouraging.

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

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.

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

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.

Once master data management becomes a reality, companies that hope to truly leverage it will need a tool that marries different platforms, different architectures and different brands of MDM.

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.

Allstate Files Million-Dollar Insurance Fraud Case in New York

The big economic question of the day has major implications for sellers of annuities.

My blog on “Why Do So Many IT Projects Fail” touched a nerve with readers who offered more possible reasons.

The insurance industry needs to emphasize mobile initiatives and begin to guide consumer expectations rather than sit back and watch.

Insurers will be challenged to make work on legacy systems as interesting and fulfilling as any social networking startup may be.

Low market valuations of insurance, high levels of caution drivers behind lack of consolidation