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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.

With a focus on growth rather than simple cost-cutting, insurance CIOs are trying to deeply change the mix of capabilities, knowledge and assets within their organizations.

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.

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.

Jim Lyday to lead growth for the distribution of Defined Contribution business in full-service, mid- to large-employer retirement plan market.

Heitz retires; Miller to lead sales and distribution.

New version designed to expand localization options for global and regional insurers, facilitate compliance, reduce risk.

Board approves plan to convert CUNA Mutual Insurance Society from mutual insurance company structure to mutual holding company structure.

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

USAA's corporate culture fostered on the inside is reflected out to the market.

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.