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5 Ways to Assess Sales Performance Amid A Global Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched every single part of the economy, including — or especially — sales. Businesses have seen existing customers delay reordering and new customers wait to make their first purchases, and some companies are holding onto cash rather than investing in their business. But their singular focus on the here and now […]
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Read MoreNS8 Raises $123 Million Series A
This AXA Venture Partners led transaction is the largest-ever venture funding round of any company headquartered in Nevada, according to PitchBook. Latest Raise Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Backing from AXA Venture Partners NS8, an online fraud prevention company, announced the company has successfully closed $123 million in venture funding led by Lightspeed Venture […]
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Read MoreDividend Income Summary: Lanny’s May 2020 Summary
The stock market continues to rise and dividend income keeps coming in. The uncertainty is still significantly high and the direction the stock market is going does not make sense. Time to see my May dividend income results below! Dividend Income Dividend Income is the fruit from the labor of investing your money in the…
Read MoreLockton Re takes Bob Bissett from Aon for retro / D&F role
Independent insurance broking giant Lockton continues to make new key hires for a growing retrocessional reinsurance practice, with its Lockton Re division having now added another senior appointment in Bob Bissett from Aon. This follows yesterday’s news that Lockton Re had hired well-known London market retrocession broker Matt Foreman from Aon, signalling the start of…
Read MoreAon warns pensions not to over-react to Covid-19 mortality spike
Insurance and reinsurance broker and consultancy Aon has warned UK pension schemes not to over-react to the recent short-term spike in mortality rates in the country, as the impact to longevity risk assumptions may not be as significant as it seems. Aon’s Risk Settlement Group, which deals with pension risk transfer, including the buy-in and…
Read MoreFidelis raises $500m to take advantage of “hardening” rates
Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited, the specialty insurance and reinsurance firm launched by Richard Brindle, has revealed its second equity capital raise of this year, adding a further $50o million to take the re/insurers capitalisation to $2 billion. Fidelis had already tapped institutional investors for a $300 million fresh capital raise back in February, to help…
Read MoreSwiss Re targets $200m of hurricane retro with fifth Matterhorn Re cat bond
Global reinsurance company Swiss Re has again returned to the catastrophe bond market for what will be its fifth time in just around one-year, this time bringing a targeted $200 million Matterhorn Re Ltd. (Series 2020-4) with which it hopes to secure retrocessional protection against hurricane losses. Having shied away from sponsoring catastrophe bonds for…
Read MoreSevere weather, tornadoes, hail, floods drive multi-billion insured loss in May: Aon
The insurance and reinsurance market faced another month of severe weather in the United States in May 2020, with the market set for the third consecutive multi-billion dollar insured loss month this year, according to Impact Forecasting. Impact Forecasting, the weather, climate and risk modelling unit of insurance and reinsurance broker Aon details the significant…
Read MoreGoldman Sachs Securtizes Public Unrest
Shares of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (“GS”, “Goldman”, or “the Company”) soared on news today that Goldman had managed to securitize public unrest in the country. Proceeds from the offering will be used for bricks, Molotov cocktails and any other items the rioters need. Investors in the offering will receive shares in the looting […]
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