Posts tagged with: Equitable Life

“There is … sensitivity around executive hubris but, if Boards of Directors do not ask the unaskable in time to prevent a crisis, who will! Chris Wiscarson, Chief Executive, Equitable...

Equitable Life (showed) that the prime cause of corporate disasters is not complex derivatives or computer models gone haywire, but human frailty.   Ruth Sunderland, Mail Online, 17 October 2012 For...

Further background to Hubris Syndrome and the Daedalus Trust, and the need for more research in the area. "We’ve now got acquired personality disorders. The question is can it affect...

"No one would deny that chief executives have egos. In many, it is restrained and agreeable. In others, I see hubris. Self doubt, self criticism and open-mindedness don’t much feature....

"The focus of this report is what lessons might potentially have been drawn from Equitable’s crisis and what was learned, and how they related to the subsequent financial crisis of...