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Oliver Wyman Agrees to Buy A&D Consulting Firm Avascent

Oliver Wyman announced it entered into an agreement to acquire Avascent, an aerospace and defense management consulting firm focused on the corporate and private equity sectors. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The deal is expected to close …

How Work-From-Home Has Spurred Blue-Collar Americans to Shift Careers

The pandemic shift to working at home has spurred blue-collar Americans -– who’ve largely been left out of that trend -– to seek a career change. A new study by the Oliver Wyman Forum found that the desire for more …

Marsh McLennan Launches Cyber Risk Analytics Center

Marsh McLennan announced the launch of its Cyber Risk Analytics Center, a resource that brings together the cyber risk data, analytics and mitigation expertise of its four businesses and other business, government and academic partners. The cross-enterprise center’s participants— Marsh, …

Oliver Wyman Predicts COVID Herd Immunity for U.S. by Mid-Summer

The U.S. will reach herd immunity threshold when more than 71% of the U.S. population has been exposed to COVID or effectively vaccinated against it, most likely by mid-summer, says a management consultant firm that has been tracking COVID cases. …

Financial Services Firms Risk $1 Trillion in Losses from Climate Change: Report

The world’s financial services sector risks losses of up to $1 trillion if it fails to respond quickly to climate change and is hit by policy shifts such as the introduction of a carbon tax, a new report shows. The …

Financial Services Industry Misses Out on $700B a Year by Ignoring Women: Report

The male-dominated finance industry is missing out on more than $700 billion a year in revenue by failing to listen to or tailor products for women, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman. “Women are arguably the single largest under-served group …

Winning, Sharing, Trusting, Failing, Losing: 10 Insuretech Connect Takeaways

Pulling together some loose threads from October’s Insuretech Connect Conference, here are 10 takeaways: Innovation Rap. “I actually feel the industry gets a bad rap in terms of innovation,” Dan Glaser, Marsh McLennan Cos. CEO, told the roomful of innovators, …

UK Could Lose 75,000 Insurance, Banking Jobs as a Result of Brexit: Regulator

Sam Woods, Britain’s top banking regulator, said a consultancy’s estimate that Brexit could cause as many as 75,000 job losses in banking and insurance is “plausible” if the U.K. leaves the European Union without a trade deal. About 10,000 U.K.-based …

Insurers, Tech Firms ‘Must Work Together’ to Tackle Emerging Technology Risks

The World Economic Forum is bringing insurers, tech firms and governments together to find ways to tackle risks from new technology such as drones and driverless cars, it said on Thursday. Tech firms have moved fast to develop new products, …

New York Regulator Subpoenas Wells Fargo Over Unwanted Auto Insurance

New York state’s banking and insurance regulator issued subpoenas on Tuesday to two Wells Fargo & Co units after the bank said it had sold auto insurance to hundreds of thousands of customers who did not need it. The New …