Investment Officers
University Analyzes the Big Data of Yahoo! Message Boards
A study by researchers at the University of Iowa suggests Yahoo's finance message boards have a small degree of ability to predict stock price movements. The study, "Stock Chatter: Using stock ...
Wind Park, Power Grid Investments Causing Solvency II Headaches for EU Insurers
Insurance regulators in Europe won't relax rules designed to protect customers from risks to investments in structures like wind parks and power grids, the head of the industry's watchdog said. ...AIG Commits $1.5B to Lending Venture for Mid-Sized Cos. With Oak Hill
American International Group Inc., the largest property/casualty insurer in the U.S. and Canada, joined private-equity firm Oak Hill Capital Management to help start a lender serving medium-sized ...
Executive Changes Announced at GR-NEAM
On Tuesday, Gen Re announced several planned organizational changes at GR–NEAM prompted by Gerard (Jerry) Lynch's announcement that he will be retiring Dec. 31, 2014. Effective immediately: ...
Buffett May Up Berkshire’s Bets on Solar, Wind Power to $30B
Warren Buffett briefly lost track of how many billions of dollars his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is spending to build wind and solar power in the U.S. That didn't stop him from vowing to double the ...
How Cat Bond Investors Think About Yield
Will catastrophe bonds still be interesting to investors when overall yields on investments go higher? John Seo, the co-founder and managing principal of Fermat Capital Management LLC, provided the ...AIG Warrants Leap To Record, Benefiting Fairholme Capital Management
American International Group Inc. warrants jumped to a record, benefiting investors like Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management LLC, which held the securities for years. The contracts ...
FINRA Probing Abusive Trades Based on Mathematical Algorithms
Wall Street's self-regulator is cracking down on abusive trades made on the basis of mathematical algorithms and currently has some 170 ongoing investigations into the subject, its chief said on ...