Research
Brains of High Stock Market Earners Have Built-In Crash Detectors
If you're not getting rich in the stock market, it may be because you're brain just isn't wired like Warren Buffett's—or that of any other successful investor who has a built-in detector for ...
AIR Worldwide Ups Cat Modeling Competition With Touchstone 2.0
Eighteen months after AIR Worldwide launched its Touchstone catastrophe modeling platform, the Boston company is rolling out version 2.0. Touchstone 2.0 includes a number of tweaks and advances to ...
Study Explains How Drilling Wastewater Causes Oklahoma Quakes
A new study explains how just four wells forcing massive amounts of drilling wastewater into the ground are probably shaking up Oklahoma. Those wells seem to have triggered more than 100 ...
Xuber: London’s Insurance Market Needs Collective Use of Big Data
The London insurance market is arguably among the most important in the world. A new report from insurance software developer Xuber argues that position is in jeopardy because its major players don't ...
Risk Remains After California’s La Habra Earthquake, Report Concludes
Southern Californians were lucky that a magnitude-5.1 earthquake that hit in March just 20 miles east of Los Angeles caused minor damage. A far worse event in the region is inevitable, however, and ...
Another Climate Report Outlines Business Risks, Insurance Pitfalls
"Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change to the United States," a report on climate change and how it will affect businesses, offers a variety of information on how a changing world will ...
New Study Shows Hormone-Disrupting Activity of Fracking Chemicals Worse Than Initially Found
Many chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, can disrupt not only the human body's reproductive hormones but also the glucocorticoid and thyroid hormone receptors, which are necessary to ...
Deaths Due to Painkillers Higher Than Heroin, Cocaine Combined
The number of deaths involving commonly prescribed painkillers is higher than the number of deaths by overdose from heroin and cocaine combined, according to researchers at McGill University. In a ...