2. Business
Recap: Our
Understanding
Of Insurance
Overall Goals,
Problem,
Needs.
• Decentralized Structures (+)
• Specialized Niche Knowledge
• Concern for unforeseen risk
• Conservative balance sheets
• Strategic in Cycle Mgt
• Looking at new businesses
• Write as much good business
as possible.
• Slower growth/ selective
underwriting
• Focus on Retention/ maintain
disciplined underwriting
• Sacrifice volume for
profitability
• Capitalize on market
dislocations, create new units
for market turn
• Accelerate growth as price
adequacy returns
• Operate where knowledge
is competitive advantage
• Industries/economies w
strong margins
• Attractive Global Markets
So How?
Decentralization= Silos = Bad
#’s, Speed
Growth Pressure =
Aggressive Underwriting =
Data Quality
New Markets = Increased
Regulations & Competition.
More Complexity
3. Trends: Top Priorities
for Insurance CFO.
• Better Business Partner
• Performance Driven Culture
Based
• Better Analytics Looking
Forward
• Regulations
• Interest Rate Environment
• Tax & International
4. Trends: Top Priorities
for Insurance CFO—
Another View
• Performance Management
• Growth Strategy
• Process Optimization
• Cash Management
• Risk Management
• Organizational & Human
Capital
Source: PWC Survey-CFO-Priorities in 2018
1. Growth & Retention
2. Operational Efficiency
3. Legal & Reg
4. Talent
What Gets Budget?
10. Polling:
On a scale of 1-10 which of the following do you think will impact new Growth,
Modernization, Regulatory, Human Capital Projects:
1.Data and source requirements will be hard to get to?
2 Actuarial Modeling requirements? Forecasting, Sensitivity analysts, historical and future?
3 End User Reporting requirements: Finance, Operations, Sales, Marketing, HR?
4 Transparency, traceability and auditability footnotes?
5 Business process and sequential timing of each step in the process?
6 Integrations with source systems?
7 Data Quality?
8 Data Governance?
How disparate are the data sources?
How many actuarial systems do you have? (Include Excel?
How much per year do you spend on actuarial related systems?
How many General Ledgers do you have?
How much per year do you spend on finance related systems?
How many data management software vendors do you have?
How many policy administration systems do you have?
How many claims administraton systems do you have?
How many billing engines do you have?
How many reporting or visualization tools do you use?
Do you have an modern insurance data model?