Private Equity acquirers often purchase under-performing businesses and then cut costs, and otherwise turn those businesses around for later sale. This approach has worked incredibly well, so much so that it has attracted a great deal of competition thereby making similar deals increasingly...

Insurance claims can take years to resolve, which makes insurance performance measurement - and incentive compensation based on such measurement - challenging. The insurance industry utilizes a method of analysis called accident year analysis to manage the temporal challenge inherent in...

The performance of the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry has suffered in recent years (as of the early 2000s), even prior to the losses incurred in the tragic events of September 11th. Part of the industry’s difficulties stem from its focus on premium generation, as measured by...