2008 Forum: "Restructuring the Insurance Industry: Smarter, Swifter, Stronger"
The Insurance Executive Forum will offer you and your colleagues the opportunity to hear the perspectives of a diverse and distinguished panel of industry executives discuss these issues and other questions.
Facing emerging exposures, changing global economics, massive technological advances and potential demographic upheaval, the insurance industry finds itself at a time when many believe that the successful companies will be those able to successfully achieve business transformation. It’s a classic risk and opportunity scenario, with the companies poised to profit those who can help remake the industry into one that’s truly “smarter, swifter, stronger.”
We invite you to join us as our panel of industry executives discusses the major industry issues of the day, offer their insights on how to restructure the industry and provide their thoughts on some of the keys to successfully navigating the sea of change confronting the business. Among the issues the panel will discuss will be:
-- Where are we in the current industry cycle and what is the future of insurance market cyclicality? Is there anything a company can do to immunize itself from the effect of industry cycles?
-- With exposures getting larger and more value exposed to catastrophic risk, what do the industry, governments and insurance buyers need to do to effectively evaluate and prepare for mega-catastrophe exposures?
-- What’s in store on the insurance regulatory front?
-- How will technology reshape the industry in terms of opportunities to do business faster and better, find new business, serve customers more effectively and better manage risk?
-- What is the state of enterprise risk management both at insurance industry companies and their clients, and what sort of role should insurers and brokers be playing in helping insurance buyers improve the state of their own ERM efforts?
-- How serious is the talked about “talent crisis” some fear the industry will face as Baby Boom-era employees retire?
-- How can brokers and insurers best work together to address their clients’ needs?
-- What should businesses be looking for from their insurers and brokers to help them identify their multi-national exposures and supply chain issues to protect them from such risks as business interruption or product recall issues?
-- Within the constraints of ethical business practices and regulatory and legal requirements, what kind of approaches might insurers look toward to provide incentives to producers to help achieve growth?
-- What are some of the potential exposures business and the insurance industry should be considering, and how does the insurance industry effectively evaluate these emerging risks?
-- Does capital from outside the insurance industry pose a future risk to the insurance business, or is that capital instead an opportunity with the industry finding new and more effective ways to tap that capital markets for risk transfer capacity?
-- A glimpse into the crystal ball: What might November’s elections mean for the insurance industry?
This forum has a history of offering thought provoking dialogue with an ample opportunity for your questions – including the chance to submit a question for the panel with your registration form. We hope you will join us.
Rodd Zolkos –Editor of Industry Focus at Business Insurance Magazine
Registration can be completed online. For more information, call (309) 438-3021 or (800) 697-8692, or e-mail
