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‘Flow’ Insurance Platforms Drive Growth
Brian Nordyke and John Rodgers demonstrate how ‘flow’ platforms drive growth in commercial lines in this Insurance Thought
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Top Commercial, Personal Insurance Trends Shaping 2025
Brian Nordyke and John Rodgers highlight key 2025 insurance trends in this PC360 article. Now that 2025
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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?
Nick Kramer emphasizes the need to move beyond traditional recruiting methods to secure GenAI talent in this CIO
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Private Equity in 2025 — Guarded Optimism Follows A Trying 2024
As 2025 unfolds, private equity firms are approaching the market with caution. The wounds of 2024—a year weighed
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Avoiding Financial Shock: Today’s Commercial Real Estate Is Dealing with a New Reality
The commercial real estate market is experiencing significant challenges, including rising build costs, declining demand for space, and increased refinancing risks, creating a complex landscape for investors and lenders. Pierre Buhler and Andrew Jones discuss the significant challenges currently facing the global commercial real estate market in this Scotsman Guide article.
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Stubbornly High Interest Rates Call for a New Cost-Cutting Playbook for Banks
As interest rates remain historically high, Rajeev Aggarwal and Pierre Buhler share a cost-cutting playbook for banks in this ABFJournal article.
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Three Important Operational Priorities for Life Insurance in 2024
In life insurance and annuities, the promise has always been unwavering stability and resilience. Insurance companies have adapted to the times by being measured and purposeful, living their commitment to providing long-term security. The last decade challenged this paradigm, having introduced a relentless wave of innovation, including contactless underwriting, consumer demand for digital-centric interactions, the office impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entry of private equity, and rapid fluctuations in interest rates, with the looming threat of declining asset values already requiring another round of new investment strategies, product revisions, and balance sheet optimizations.
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Looking Back at 2023
2023 was a difficult market in many ways. Acquisitions and dollars invested along with exits and IPOs were down while capital under management continued to accumulate. As a result, the world for financial sponsors grew much more competitive, causing them to focus on building distinctive, proven competitive advantages – in raising capital, in finding deals, in exiting, and of course, in fundamental value creation.
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Banking’s Cost Crunch: Tackling Layoffs and Regulatory Challenges
Beyond personnel overages, banks are pressed to get their costs well under control for the foreseeable future. The second article in our two-part series looking at the top risks facing banks focuses on the ever more demanding regulatory and compliance requirements, increased need for human and financial resources, and commercial and personal defaults/default risks to avoid.
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Rising Costs, Tough Choices: Banking in the Era of Inflation
Banks have entered a period of increased uncertainty over the last few months. Notation agencies like Fitch have already started to review ratings, and countless banks are either downgraded or being considered for a downgrade. No one is spared, neither small banks nor large banks.
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Is Corporate America KPI’d Out?
There’s a better approach to getting the most out of key performance indicators. John Rodgers and Vinod Prashad outline strategies for organizations to measure meaningful metrics and unlock the potential of their KPIs in this Financial Executives International article. Read a preview of the article below.
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Can Better Resource Management Help P&C Out of Its Slump?
The property and casualty sector has suffered steep and unambiguous losses in recent years – better resource management could be the solution the industry is looking for. Brian Nordyke and Jonathan Schwartz are featured in this Property Casualty 360 article looking at how better resource management could help property casualty insurers.
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A New Approach to Resource Management
Better resource management can help insurers avoid wasting time and resources on projects. Brian Nordyke and Jonathan Schwartz offer insights to enhance operational efficiency in this Insurance Thought Leadership article.
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