First GameStop, now silver: Reddit users continue to push prices higher

silver reddit

Reddit users are targeting more than GameStop, AMC and certain other stocks; they’ve added silver to their campaign. Silver futures jumped by as much as 13% this morning, reaching their highest levels in eight years after Reddit users continued to push into the precious metals market. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Reddit […]

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Reinsurance renewals suggest “a real repricing of risk” in 2021: RBC

The outcome of the January 2021 reinsurance renewals and expectations for the rest of this year suggest “a real repricing of risk” is underway, which may now continue into 2022, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets. The analysts see January’s renewal pricing trends as indicative of reinsurers and of course insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds…

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Once Again the World’s Richest: 3 Life Lessons To Learn From Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos has gone back to being the world’s richest person again. The trillion dollar company, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, is back on being #1 on the list. Yes, we all heard it before that Jeff Bezos was knocked a step down from the world’s richest person the spot of the world’s second richest with […]

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Reddit & Occupy Wall Street 2.0, Silver Bullion is Next

Occupy Wall Street

This week, everyone is closely following the GameStop and AMC massive stock rally. Not everyone understands this David and Goliath situation, however. Basically, this is a loosely organized attack by individual retail investors, for the most part, on Wall Street. As a result, we are currently witnessing Occupy Wall Street 2.0. According to the subreddit […]

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Catastrophe bond backed EU emergency healthcare fund proposed

A new study has called for the creation of an Emergency Health Financing Facility (EHFF) for the European Union (EU) healthcare sector, with the securitization of health emergency risks in the form of catastrophe bonds seen as a viable funding solution. The research study, undertaken and published by Professor David Veredas, Professor Simon Ashby and…

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Marrikel rebrands as Re Square, pivots to offer reinsurance auction tech

Marrikel, the company that launched in mid-2020 with a product offering of a full reinsurance broking platform, has rebranded itself as Re Square and pivoted to offer just reinsurance auction technology, as an option alongside its full platform, recognising many brokers want to retain control of their own transaction flows. The move puts Re Square…

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MGIC targets its biggest mortgage ILS, with $399m Home Re 2021-1

MGIC Investment Corporation is back in the capital markets with what will be its third sponsorship of a mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance, as it seeks roughly $399 million of collateralized mortgage reinsurance with the Home Re 2021-1 Ltd. issuance. MGIC Investment Corporation first entered the mortgage insurance-linked securities (ILS) market in 2018, securing a …

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Some ILS funds continue to set small COVID business interruption reserves

A number of insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds have continued to report small increases in losses and reserves set related to business interruption claims from the Covid-19 pandemic, we understand, which continued to weigh on results over the last two months. Clarity over the extent of business interruption losses that will be faced by the reinsurance…

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