Are Insurers Prepared?

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Description: The Ceres’s Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey has shown that insurers are not properly prepared for the risks and opportunities that accompany climate change. Storm frequency and intensity is on the upswing. But the survey, covering over 300 companies and roughly 90% of the insurance premiums in the United States, shows that many insurers are not… Read more »

King of the bonds loses kingdom

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Description:  Bond King Bill Gross has resigned from the firm he founded. Gross left Pimco – Pacific Investment Management Co. – after a number of months of apparent internal struggles. Gross had been the face of the firm for over thirty years. But now his pictures have disappeared from the company website. The firm’s new… Read more »