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Editorial Calendar*January 2017 Ad Close: 12/5/16
February 2017 Ad Close: 1/3/17
March 2017 Ad Close: 2/3/17
April 2017 Ad Close: 3/3/17
May 2017 Ad Close: 4/3/17
June 2017 Ad Close: 5/3/17
July 2017 Ad Close: 6/5/17
August 2017 Ad Close: 7/5/17
Feature PackagesOrganized Disruption: Insurers and venture capitalists are racing to invest in tech startups, leverage new platforms and invent products and services bound to marginalize existing offerings.
New Roles for Actuaries and Auditors: An endless appetite for new forms of analysis and reporting has elevated these functions into critical enterprise capabilities.
Best Behavior: How insurers are incentivizing, monitoring and penalizing behavior in the interests of reducing risk and improving lives. A comprehensive look at the strategies, technological devices and lessons of life, health and nonlife insurers that have tied insurance coverage to desired behaviors.
Cyber Quantification: The numbers, standards and thresholds that are driving the evolution of cyber liability.
Beyond the Workplace: As traditional employment patterns evolve to embrace the freelance economy, mobile workspaces, shared work and other new arrangements, workers’ compensation, benefits and commercial insurance professionals face a widening range of opportunities and challenges.
How Peer-to-Peer Is Changing Insurance: A look at the new business models that are driving the sharing economy and altering the risk environment.
Digital Transformation: How insurers are proceeding on the path to digital first.
Chief Digital Officers: The people, skills and responsibilities placed on those who hold some of the hottest jobs in today’s insurance environment.
Building Resilience: Insurers and investors increasingly believe that profitable business can be found in preventing disastrous losses, rather than just responding to catastrophes.
The Talent Issue: Insurers face an unprecedented brain drain and talent shortage, as boomers retire and younger workers hesitate to embrace careers in the risk industry. A look at how companies are developing new ways to recruit, train and fashion career paths.
The Future of Insurance Hubs: Reinsurers are seeking to be closer to the customer than ever before. Does this shift pose a threat to the traditional insurance hub approach and the hubs of London, Bermuda and New York? Could we see a shift to new locations such as Dublin? What are the pros and cons of an insurance hub?
Exclusive Lists & Rankings• Top Auditors & Actuaries – Property/Casualty
and Life/Health• World’s Largest Insurers • Corporate Changes
• World Catastrophes Map• Top Global Brokers• Top 200 U.S. Property/Casualty Writers• Top 200 U.S. Life/Health Insurers• Top 75 North American Public Insurers
• Top 200 U.S. Combined Life/Health Insurers
• U.S. Property/Casualty Direct Premiums Written by Line
Coverage• Asset Management • Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management • Life
Spotlight• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance• Top Auditors & Actuaries
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurers • World’s Largest Insurers
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance• Top Brokers
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance• Top P/C Insurers by Line• Top Life/Health Insurers
Issues & Answers (Advertorial)Accounting & Actuarial Services: As insurers become increasingly focused on analytics, metrics and internal reporting, roles for auditors and actuaries are expanding. Actuarial and auditing firms share their insights into how they are helping insurers and reinsurers understand and utilize the expanding wealth of data and financial information.
Career Development: Education, training, information and service providers explain how they are helping insurers find, train and educate people to handle the demanding and sophisticated responsibilities vital to tomorrow’s insurance industry.
Cyber Coverage: Insurers, information providers, service and technology companies explain how they are helping insurers cover the ever-widening range of cyber exposures, protect themselves and build new products and coverages that better meet the needs of today’s insureds.
Commercial Risk: Insurers, brokers and service providers explain how they are helping today’s risk managers meet their widening needs for better liability and property protection, including financial, professional, property, transportation and more.
Program & Wholesale Business: Carriers, wholesale distributors and service providers explain how they develop and support today’s expanding range of specialized program insurance offerings and distribution channels.
Specialized Investments: Asset managers, advisors, consultants and service providers discuss how insurers can better utilize the range of services and products that are remaking the world of insurance asset management.
Predictive Analytics: Modelers, analytical consultants, service providers and technologists explain how they are helping insurers and reinsurers turn their voluminous data into competitive advantage.
Captive Services & Domiciles: Domiciles, reinsurers, captive managers, brokers and service providers explain how they are helping risk managers and insurance organizations better utilize the potential of hosting their risk in a captive insurance organization.
Special Advertising Opportunities• AdQ Study • World Catastrophes Map
Bonus Distribution• National Association of Catastrophe
Adjusters Annual Convention• National Association of Professional
Surplus Lines Mid-Year Leadership Forum
• A.M. Best’s Review & Preview Conference• Captive Insurance Companies Association
Annual International Conference• Legal Marketing Association Annual
Conference
• National Association of Insurance CommissionersSpring National Meeting
• Property & Liability Research Bureau Claims Conference
• Insurance Club of Buffalo’s Buffalo I-Day• Capital I Day• Philly I-Day• Risk & Insurance Management Society
Annual Conference & Exhibition
• American Association of Managing General Agents Annual Meeting
• Insurance Accounting & Systems Association Annual Education Conference and Business Show
• National Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters Annual Conference
• Bermuda Captive Owners Association Captive Conference
• Insurance Marketing and Communications Association Annual Meeting
• Vermont Captive Insurance Association Annual Conference
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners Summer National Meeting
A.M.BestTV Conference CoverageTwo sponsorship slots available per conference• Risk & Insurance Management Society
Annual Conference & Exhibition
Two sponsorship slots available per conference• Inland Marine Underwriters Association
Conference • Target Markets Mid-Year Meeting• American Association of Managing
General Agents Annual Meeting
Two sponsorship slots available per conference• Bermuda Captive Owners Association
Captive Conference
Two sponsorship slots available per conference• Vermont Captive Insurance Association
Annual Conference
Industry Background (FYI)Insurers begin preparing full-year financials. Statement filings are due March 1. In
the U.S., insurers’ annual regulatory filings are known as “Statements.” These are filed on a quarterly basis, with the most comprehensive filing, the Annual Statement, due two months after the year closes.
June 1 is traditionally considered the start of the hurricane season.
*Editorial content and bonus distribution subject to change. Publication date: First week of each month.
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Editorial Calendar* (continued)September 2017Ad Close: 8/4/17
October 2017Ad Close: 9/5/17
November 2017Ad Close: 10/4/17
December 2017Ad Close: 11/3/17
Feature PackagesMutual Reliance: As NAMIC turns 130— still younger than many of its members —mutual insurers continue to occupy a strong and sometimes dominant role in the U.S. and other insurance environments. How mutuality is evolving, how mutual culture differs and the obstacles and openings in their road ahead.
State of the Auto Market: Our annual examination of market developments, including top auto writers by type of business and location, along with developments in underwriting, claims, marketing and coverage.
The Automation Issue: How AI, robotics, algorithms and connected devices are presenting new tools, business models and insurable risks.
State of the Homeowners Markets: Our annual examination of market developments, including top homeowners writers by type of business and location, along with developments in underwriting, claims, marketing and coverage.
Key Regulators: A look at the regulators — U.S. and global — who have the most impact, including many who are not directly associated with the insurance sector.
Inland Marine and Marine Insurance: Our annual examination of market developments, including top writers.
Market Growth: Lines of business, sectors, companies and financial indicators that have shown the most change.
Exclusive Lists & Rankings• Leading U.S. Life/Health Writers• Top 50 Global Reinsurance Groups
• Top Auto Writers • U.S. Homeowners Multiple Peril • Top U.S. Ocean Marine, Inland Marine, Fire & Allied Writers (Ranked by Direct Premiums Written)
Coverage• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
• Asset Management• Life
Spotlight• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance—Coverage ahead
of NAPSLO conference• Top Reinsurers
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance — Coverage ahead
of Target Markets fall conference• Top Auto Writers
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance • Top Homeowners Writers
• Commercial Insurance• Specialty Insurance • Top Inland Marine Writers
Issues & Answers (Advertorial)
Mutual Success: Mutual insurers, reinsurers, agents, brokers and service providers explain why this form of insurance company remains a key sector, how it has changed and how mutual insurers are managing risk, investments, claims and other operations.
Specialty Coverage: Carriers, wholesalers, reinsurers and service providers explain how they are helping insurers and producers discover, develop and distribute the specialized coverages that have come to dominate key areas of the insurance world.
Technology Innovation: Technologists, service providers, insurers, reinsurers and consultants explain the latest developments in insurance technology, and how insurers are using technology to gain an advantage in today’s highly competitive market.
Inland Marine & Marine: Marine and inland marine carriers, specialized brokers, service providers and other organizations explain how agents, brokers and others can harness new products and strategies to gain success in the surprisingly large markets for inland marine and marine coverages.
Special Advertising Opportunities• AdQ Study • Understanding the Insurance Industry
Bonus Distribution• National Association of Professional
Surplus Lines Offices Annual Convention• A.M. Best’s Insurance Market Briefing –
Canada• RIMS Canada Conference• Casualty Actuarial Society Loss Reserve
Seminar• National Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies Annual Convention
• Gamma Iota Sigma International Conference• Society of Insurance Research Annual
Conference & Exhibit Fair• American Council of Life Insurers Annual
Conference• Property Casualty Insurers Association of
America Annual Meeting• Target Markets Program Administrators
Association Annual Summit• Defense Research Institute Annual Meeting• Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting & Exhibit
• Casualty Actuarial Society Annual Meeting• Insurance Managers Association of
Cayman, Cayman Captive Conference
• National Association of Insurance Commissioners Fall National Meeting
A.M.BestTV Conference CoverageTwo sponsorship slots available per conference• Rendez-vous de Septembre• National Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies Annual Convention
Two sponsorship slots available per conference• PCIAA Annual Meeting
Two sponsorship slots available per conference• Insurance Managers Association of
Cayman, Cayman Captive Conference
Industry Background (FYI)Reinsurance renewal talks begin in earnest. Reinsurers, insurers and intermediaries traditionally begin reviewing annual commitments around the time of the Rendez-vous conference, and continue through the PCIAA and Baden-Baden events before reaching January 1 commitments.
The fall conference season opens after Labor Day. September is traditionally the busiest month of the year for insurance conferences.
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