McLagan provides compensation consulting, operational benchmarking and best practices research for the insurance industry. 

Armed with over 20 years of experience in the insurance sector and current market data, our insurance team is well positioned to help clients identify opportunities and make well-informed decisions so they can meet the challenges of ever-changing market conditions.

Our  deep industry knowledge, ongoing research and proprietary study data enables us to provide each consulting engagement with both quantitative and qualitative consideration. While the scope of our consulting work varies, we are highly skilled at working with organizations to:

  • Provide pay advisory services to senior management and their board of directors.

  • Benchmark competitive pay levels and practices and related human resource issues.

  • Design annual, long-term and sales incentive plans.


Our coverage is global through our offices in Stamford, Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, London, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

McLagan offers operational benchmarking services through our sister company, Ward Group, the leading provider of benchmarking and best practices research for the insurance industry. The firm conducts detailed analysis of revenue, expenses, and staff for the entire organization and provides benchmarks to measure the operating performance of insurance companies as a whole, compared to separate business units within the organization or by country or region.

Ward Group benchmarking starts with information taken directly from the general ledger.  Experienced analysts examine the data for each company, consider the differences in operating structure and map it into a common framework.  The result is true apples to apples performance comparisons to other insurance companies that are not publicly available and cannot be replicated internally.  

Ward Group consultants work with clients to:

  • Benchmark expenses, staff and operations at a granular business level.

  • Identify drivers of performance and quantify the cost of performance gaps.

  • Normalize data based on business mix, distribution and geography.

  • Balance the pay for performance equation.

 

Global Contact
Akiko Nakamura
Director
Akasaka Twin Tower Main Tower 16th Floor
17-22, Akasaka 2-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052
Japan
(03) 4589 4343
Tony O'Shea
Director
1600 Summer Street
Suite 601
Stamford, CT 06905
203 359 2878
Felix Schachter
Director
Lloyds Chambers, 5th Floor
1 Portsoken Street
London E1 8BT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7680 3835
Jeffrey J. Rieder, CPA, CPCU
Partner
11500 Northlake Drive
Suite 305
Cincinnati, Ohio 45249
United States
513 791 0303
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For many banks there is—or shortly will be—life after TARP. In 2010, we saw a number of firms repay their TARP funds through capital raises or retained earnings. As we look to 2011, we expect both these trends to continue and the pool of TARP banks to shrink.
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An insurance company needed to evaluate and identify a targeted operating model based on other similar insurance carriers and broader industry benchmarks.