In a webinar on March 13th, Craig Weber and I presented our predictions for the North American Policy Administration system market.  We also identified some the trends we’ve seen in the market as it relates to deals.  A quick recap shows that we believe the NA PAS market will have a slight dip in 2012 [...]

In a webinar on March 13th, Craig Weber and I presented our predictions for the North American Policy Administration system market. We also identified some the trends we’ve seen in the market as it relates to deals. A quick recap shows that we believe the NA PAS market will have a slight dip in 2012 [...]

Last week, the Hartford (USA) announced that it was refocusing its business strategy. The immediate impact of this change was to place its annuity business into runoff, and to initiate a search for a buyer (or strategic alternative if a buyer cannot be found) of its Individual Life, Woodbury Financial Services and Retirement Plans. In [...]

Some insurers are starting to launch e-reputation insurance products for individuals. Indeed, in France Swiss Life started to launch last year an insurance product targeting students about to start a professional career or any persons worrying about all data and information about them on the web. Very recently Axa France also launched a similar insurance [...]

Celent Senior Analyst Donald Light This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$195. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Chuck Smith at +1.617.262.3125 or csmith@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

I was recently talking to a past colleague over lunch and he reminded me of a concern I had a couple of years ago that seems to be descending on insurers in the next 2-5 years. Architects are usually considered valuable internal resources within carriers (for good reason if they are good) along with PMs [...]

Another step noted on the journey that I blogged about last month – which insurer will be the first to sell through Facebook. Thanks to Carol Tice (@TiceWrites) for leading me to the 21st Century Facebook site. They have implemented a quoting feature on their page and I used it to find out how much [...]

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When I was an undergraduate, a few years ago, my college had a very strong Physics Department. It also had a graduation requirement that all students had to take one science course. This presented the Physics Department with a quandary, because its introduction physics course was rigorous and was designed for students who would become [...]