Analytics increasingly provide competitive differentiation for insurers and are at the heart of the industry’s transformation to a more customer-centric business model, according to “Data and Analytics in Insurance: The Dawn of a New Era,” from Strategy Meets Action.

Awareness of bank-sold life insurance improves; carriers designing simple products could benefit, LIMRA reports.

Insurers' measured moves to the cloud are building confidence in the platform as concerns move from security to risk management.

Chubb, Principal Financial and four others announce second-quarter results.

In a recent survey of data center facility managers, IT leaders and C-suite executives, consolidating servers and updating mechanical infrastructures appeared on the vast majority of to-do lists.

A recent survey found cyber attack to be among the world's top five threats, which means insurers have a big responsibility to help others, as well as themselves.

App designed to provide insurers with business performance analytics.

Study indicates outperforming organizations are twice as effective at accessing and drawing insights from data.

Congress aims to make crop insurance program more generous as farmers experience devastating droughts.

To successfully deliver e-signatures and e-delivery applications, insurers should begin by implementing them in a single process or product, according to a strategic analysis released by ACORD and developed by international law firm Locke Lord LLP.

New report examines coverage tools that P&C insurers offer and names the insurers that do it best.

In a new global survey, Accenture finds opportunity for life insurers to present clearer, more personalized information to win over these masses.

Robert Hartwig spoke to the industry’s strengths and resiliency before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Insurance Tuesday.

One-third of “transition boomers,” those aged 55 to 65 and who are 10 years or fewer away from retirement, are unsure how much money they will need to cover basic living expenses in retirement, according to “The Transition Boomers and Retirement Income Survey,” from Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America.

Insurers need a data mastery roadmap aligned to their business goals to avoid costly mistakes, according to new Celent report.

Aite Group report finds compliance and reporting, customer-centricity, multi-channel distribution and engagement prompt desire to modernize.

Persistently low interest rates are motivating insurers to diversify beyond fixed income into higher-return asset classes, including real estate, high-yield and emerging-market debt, and invest more in their risk management infrastructure, according to “Seeking Return in an Adverse Environment,” a survey of chief investment officers from KRC Research, sponsored by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM).

Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund expects to increase underwriting profitability, drive more business and gain greater appeal with agents.

Life, annuity and pension firms are struggling to generate profits for shareholders, members and policyholders due to the global economic slowdown, increased competition and low interest rates. This confluence of factors is leading many insurers to reassess which products and markets are to be considered strategic, and how to best manage the discontinued, unprofitable and non-strategic portions of their business, according “Strategies and Options for Managing Closed Blocks: Life, Annuities, and Pensions Edition,” a new report from Celent.

In 2011, only two companies in the segment became impaired, the smallest number since 1962.