Innovation
The New Age Of Technology: 3D Printing
Earlier this year, scientists from Cornell University successfully created an artificial human ear by printing it on a 3D printer. Created by squirting living cells into an injection mold, the ears ...
GM’s Internet Connected Car: Brought to You By Allstate?
Dan Akerson is pushing General Motors Co. to build cars that the U.S. automaker's top executive hopes will attract a target demographic: his grandkids. "I have grandchildren that have only grown up ...
When Money Talks, Employees Walk to Trim Health Insurance Costs
It was a controversial move when a health insurer began requiring people who were obese to literally pay the price of not doing anything about their weight – but it worked, a new study finds. When ...
No Tweets for Buffett’s Second-in-Command Munger
So they are not completely in sync after all. A day after Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett set up his own account on Twitter, his second-in-command, Charlie Munger, said he has no ...
The Trademark Problem: Casualty Insurance’s Dirty Little Secret
It has always been surprising to me that trademark issues receive so little attention in the insurance community. It’s almost as if trademark claims are the dirty little secret of casualty ...
Breaking Convention
Did the father sit in candlelight and silence? Or did Jean rant and sob? Did he blame himself or his son …after all he had done for him? We shall never know how Monsieur Poquelin greeted abject ...
Meditation and The Art of Investment: Saft
From Ray Dalio to Bill Gross, some of the biggest names in money management are practicing meditation. At a conference last week in Washington, Dalio expounded on how his practice of meditation has ...China to Strengthen Regulation of Financial Products
China will strengthen supervision of new financial products, particularly ones with complex structures and high leverage, to combat potential risks to the banking sector, the industry's regulator ...