A.M.BestTV: Insurers Warn of Looming Talent Gap

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OLDWICK - JUNE 24, 2015 11:43 AM (EDT)
This ^A.M.BestTV episode highlights the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation's (IICF) Women in Insurance Global Conference, New York, NY, where insurers said the insurance workforce is aging without an adequate influx of younger management talent. Click on http://www.ambest.com/v.asp?v=iicf615 to view the video program.

Attendees at IICF believe that the future of insurance is in simpler offerings and a talented workforce.

Bo Young Lee, global diversity and inclusion leader at Marsh, Inc., spoke about the challenges facing the insurance workforce. "By 2025, the prediction is 75% of the workforce will be millennials, and the insurance industry has to start winning that talent now," said Lee. "Millennials are looking for a lot of flexibility and space to innovate, as well as mobility in their careers; and unfortunately, they are not seeing these opportunities in the insurance industry. Therefore, the challenge for the industry is to create an environment where they want to come to us."

Another challenge for the industry is to provide simpler, groundbreaking products.

"Everyone in the industry is talking about innovation," said Mary Forrest, president and chief executive officer at Munich Re North America Life. "Consequently, companies are looking not only at innovation, but what kind of simpler, easier to sell products their can offer, which consumers will find easier to understand."

All believe having a diversified environment of all sorts, which is in line with customers, will encourage millennials to take a second look at the insurance industry.

Other people who appear in this episode include:

• Brian Duperreault, chief executive officer at Hamilton Insurance Group;


• Betsy Myatt, executive director at IICF Women in Insurance Global Conference;


• Mario Vitale, chief executive officer at Aspen Insurance; and


• Inga Beale, chief executive officer at Lloyd's.

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