October 18, 2022
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 …
January 31, 2022
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 …
October 14, 2021
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, …
March 16, 2021
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. …
February 24, 2020
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 …
November 15, 2019
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 …
November 5, 2018
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, …
November 1, 2017
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 …
October 12, 2017
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, …
August 3, 2017
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 …