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Warren Buffett’s Pension Fund Management Advice: Saft Column
Here is Warren Buffett's pension fund management advice in a nutshell: Be patient, buy only a few things, ignore the stock market until it becomes irrationally optimistic, at which point sell. A ...
FASB, IASB Proposing ‘Transformational’ Changes in Insurance Accounting
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) separately released proposals recently that represent a transformational change to measurement and ...
How Companies Can Guard Against Employee Betrayal: Schneier
Ever since Edward Snowden walked out of a National Security Agency facility in May with electronic copies of thousands of classified documents, the finger-pointing has concentrated on government's ...
Seven Straight Years of Reserve Releases: Fitch
Property/casualty industry prior-year loss reserves have developed favorably for seven straight calendar years, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings, which also says the industry reserve ...
Most Insurers Expect to Boost Revenues, Add Jobs in Next 12 Months: Survey
The majority of property/casualty insurers are expecting to hire more staff over the next 12 months, according to a survey from insurance recruiting firm The Jacobson Group and consulting firm Ward ...
Hurricane Would Entice—Not Spook—ILS Investors, Says Aon Benfield Exec
Although some reinsurance industry executives believe a major loss would cause catastrophe bond investors to flee from the insurance-linked securities market, an Aon Benfield executive says such an ...
Record Breaking Cat Bond Levels; Good News For Carriers
First-half tallies of 2013 catastrophe bond issues have been coming in from reinsurers and brokers in recent months, with all suggesting that 2013 could be a record year of issuance. Swiss Re, Munich ...
Free Work Entices Businesses to Hire Long-Term Unemployed
After conducting almost 10,000 job interviews during 10 years as a human resources manager, Tom Kaminski says he thought he knew enough about the labor market to keep his own bout of unemployment ...