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Nearly Half of 100 Largest P/C Insurers Destroy Value: ACORD

Jan 8 2026 // “Sustainable value creators” among the 100 largest property/casualty insurance carriers generated more than twice as much of their value through underwriting than through investment activities over a 20-year...

UConn, Georgia Tech Students Win ACORD Challenge Using AI Tools in Pet Insurance

Dec 11 2025 // The insurance industry data standards organization ACORD announced today that University of Connecticut graduate student Manasa Ramaka has won the ACORD Student Challenge 2025, a national competition that asks university...

St. John’s University and ACORD Partner On Executive Education Programs

Oct 27 2025 // New York City’s St. John’s University is partnering with ACORD, the standards-setting body for the insurance industry, to offer virtual or in-person learning to employees of organizations that are members of...

People Moves: Aon Re Names Secker EMEA Chief Client Officer, De Bosini as Chief Broking Officer; ACORD Taps Former IUA CEO Matcham as Digital Markets Ambassador

Oct 24 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Aon and ACORD Solutions Group.A summary of these new hires follows here. Insurance broker Aon plc announced the appointments of Andrew Secker as EMEA chief...

Newman Named CEO of ACORD Solutions Group

Sep 26 2025 // ACORD announced that Chris Newman has been appointed chief executive officer of ACORD Solutions Group (ASG).Newman has led (re)insurance company operations across both the retail and specialty markets, including setting up...

ACORD Solutions Group Launches ADEPT Bermuda Regional Hub for Digital Messaging

Mar 13 2025 // ACORD Solutions Group, a provider of digital solutions for the global insurance industry, announced the launch of the ADEPT Bermuda Regional Hub. As part of the data exchange hub’s launch, ACORD Solutions Group will...

ACORD Releases Data Messaging Standard to Support London-Market Modernization

Sep 7 2023 // ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the publication of the ACORD GRLC Contract, Risk, and Pre-Accounting (CRP) Implementation Toolkit, a new data messaging standard to facilitate...

ACORD Study Highlights Drivers of High Performance Among Top U.S. Insurers

Dec 22 2022 // ACORD recently conducted the U.S. Value Creators Study focused on the 100 largest property/casualty insurance groups in the U.S., representing nearly 90% of premiums written and almost 100% of the industry’s market...

ACORD Releases Re/Insurance Data Standards for Electronic Placing

Sep 29 2021 // ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the expansion of its Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial (GRLC) Data Standards, to include new standards for electronic...

On-demand, Online ACORD Forms Training Now Offered from The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research

Mar 17 2021 // March 17, 2021, Austin, TX – The National Alliance released a new online, self-paced ACORD form training as part of a new insurance bootcamp series. The new ACORD Bootcamp trains insurance agents on how to properly...

ACORD’s Innovation Tools Experiencing Soaring Reinsurance Demand

Sep 10 2020 // ACORD, the standard setting body for the global insurance industry, is experiencing a massive jump in global reinsurance and other industry interest in its digital products and services, CEO Bill Pieroni said.The increase...

How ‘Intelligent’ Insurers Grow and Create Value: ACORD Study

Dec 2 2019 // Some insurance carriers grow but do not create value. Others shrink but still create value. Some fail at both.Then there are the “intelligent growers” — those that succeed at both, not only growing but...

Why E&S Carriers Aren’t Winners Over the Long Term

Nov 25 2019 // ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” reveals that E&S/specialty companies don’t fare well over the long term. Here, CEO Bill Pieroni suggests possible reasons...

Confessions of a Diehard Insurance Data Fan: Part 2

Nov 25 2019 // After Bill Pieroni, the CEO of ACORD, delivered a presentation about ACORD’s latest study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” he sat down with Wells Media’s Andrew Simpson to talk...

ACORD Study Results: Loser Lessons

Nov 24 2019 // More from ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes.” Of the 200 carriers, 73 were called waning carriers. These are carriers that have inferior combined ratios or return on...

How ‘Intelligent’ Insurers Grow and Create Value: ACORD Study

Nov 24 2019 // Some insurance carriers grow but do not create value. Others shrink but still create value. Some fail at both.Then there are the “intelligent growers”—those that succeed at both, not only growing but also...

Confessions of a Diehard Fan of Insurance Data: Part 1

Nov 24 2019 // If Bill Pieroni were a Major League Baseball executive, he would be one of those sabermetric types like Oakland’s Billy Beane, heralded by the book “Moneyball.” His team’s manager would have...

Electronic Marketplace AkinovA Donates Data Assets to ACORD for Industry Standards

Sep 16 2019 // AkinovA, the independent electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has donated key insurance linked security (ILS) data assets to ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the...

ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge’s European Winner Is Riskbook

Jun 17 2019 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has announced that Riskbook was the winner of the London semi-final round of the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge (AIIC), with RITA and Optimiz.Claims named...

ACORD Launches Data Toolkit for London Market Reinsurance, Big Commercial Risks

Aug 17 2018 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has launched an Adoption Toolkit to support the application of data standards for global reinsurance and large commercial risks in the London market.“The...