Investments
Mailbox Money Math of Dividends
Published March 7th, 2020 This is a guest contribution by Ryan Krueger of investment advisory firm Krueger & Catalano. You can follow Ryan on Twitter @RyanKruegerROI. Growth or Income? There are more than enough Tortoise and Hare investment products to choose from, and even more investment analogies drawn from this great race. A more un-crowded…
Read MoreIbotta – Cash Back App – March 2020 Update
Warning: This post may contain referral links Ibotta App – Background Ibotta is an app that allows you to save cash back on everyday grocery purchases. The app offers discounts on name brand products for every aisle in the grocery store. This includes discounts on dairy, fruits, pantry items, beer, wine, magazines, cleaning products,…
Read More2020 Dividend Kings List | See All 30 Now | 50+ Years Of Rising Dividends
Updated on March 6th, 2020 by Bob Ciura Spreadsheet data updated daily The Dividend Kings are the best-of-the-best in dividend longevity. What is a Dividend King? A stock with 50 or more consecutive years of dividend increases. The downloadable Dividend Kings Spreadsheet List below contains the following for each stock in the index, among other…
Read MoreMonthly Dividend Stock In Focus: Gladstone Investment Corporation
Updated on March 6th, 2020 by Nathan Parsh It is not hard to see why Business Development Companies—or BDCs—are popular investments among income investors. Consider that the S&P 500 Index currently has an average dividend yield of just 19%. With the 10-year U.S. Treasury Bond recently falling below 1%, bonds are not much better right…
Read MoreCatastrophe bond & ILS issuance on track to break Q1 record
Catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance is on course to break all records in the first-quarter of 2020, with a huge $3.93 billion of catastrophe risk-focused deals helping overall cat bond and related ILS issuance exceed $5 billion for the first time, according to Artemis’ data. Data from our Artemis Deal Directory shows that…
Read MoreVida Capital promotes Tice to oversee ILS (Merion Square) & life settlements
Vida Capital, Inc., the alternative investment manager and joint-venture partner in insurance-linked securities (ILS) asset manager Merion Square Capital LLC, has named a new Chief Investment Officer who will have oversight of the firms ILS and life settlement investment activities. Bill Tice, currently the investment managers Senior Managing Director, Marketing, Investor Relations and Business Development,…
Read MoreAustralian summer catastrophe losses reach A$5bn, reinsurance critical: APRA
Insurance and reinsurance market losses from the severe weather and natural catastrophe events that have struck Australia during its summer months are now thought to have surpassed A$5 billion (around US $3.35bn), according to the APRA Chairman. Speaking this morning in a statement made to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee of Australia, the Chairman of…
Read MoreReinsurance rates set to rise 50% in Japan, 20% in Florida: Analysts
Reinsurance renewals are expected to see significant increases in pricing in both April and June, but the biggest increases are expected to be in Japan, while Florida is likely to rise more than in recent years, but still at a slower pace. As we explained before, the Japanese reinsurance renewals in April are likely to…
Read MoreMMC hires FEMA’s Daniel Kaniewski for Public Sector risk innovation
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the insurance and reinsurance focused risk, strategy and people professional services firm, has hired former FEMA Deputy Administrator Daniel Kaniewski for a role focused on Public Sector risk innovation. Kaniewski was most recently the Deputy Administrator for Resilience at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In that role he assisted in…
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