Opinion: Branching out

Senior insurance executives convening for Insider US
last week in New York forged a consensus on at least one thing.
(Re)insurers now must be all things to all people.
Ryan Specialty Group CEO Pat Ryan cast recent M&A as aquest for scope. He noted that deals including AIG's
$5.56bn bid for Validus and Axa's $15.3bn takeover agreement
for XL gave the buyers multiple platforms.
TigerRisk president Tony Ursanopredicted that the insurer of the future will be big, offering...