Risk

Emergence of Acquisitions

RSA Canada recently acquired GCAN Insurance for $420 million. Reflecting on the deal, RSA Canada's president and CEO, Rowan Saunders, says conditions are right for future M&A activity in Canada's property and casualty marketplace.

November 30, 2010

5 min read

Keeping the Wolves at Bay

Many things are keeping primary insurance company senior executives awake at night, including the familiar wolves in the woods: water damage and the uncertain outcome of Ontario's auto insurance reforms. Add to this the ongoing volatility of global markets -- with suppressed interest rates hitting P&C insurers' investment income -- and even the specter of inflation related to economic recovery and you can see why insurers face many sleepless nights to come.

November 30, 2010

17 min read

Analytics 2.0

Machine learning analytic methods, when combined with traditional actuarial and statistical methods, can help pick out the truly predictive data points and correlations.

November 30, 2010

7 min read

Minding the Farm

Viewed in terms of marketplace stability, the smaller Ontario Facility Association Residual Market (FARM) and larger Risk Sharing Pool (RSP) volumes can be considered "a good thing." But will those RSP numbers spill into the FARM?

November 30, 2010

5 min read