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Joel Greenblatt Talks About His New Book And Education

Legendary value investor Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Asset Management has a new book coming out called Common Sense. In that book, he talks about several policies, including education, immigration, living wages and more. He sat down with ValueWalk to talk about his new book and about value investing. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and […]
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Read MoreLow Gold Spot Price Today Might Not Last, Why?

The gold spot price today continues to slump below $1900, but this low price might not last. The US GDP expanded 33% in the third quarter, but it’s still currently 3.5% below where it was in 2019. CNBC pins this as a victory, even though this is the second-largest three-quarter drop on record. In addition […]
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Read MoreExclusive Interview: Joel Greenblatt Tells ValueWalk What’s Wrong With Value Investing

Legendary value investor and college professor Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Asset Management has a new book coming out called Common Sense. He sat down with ValueWalk to talk about his new book and about value investing. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more This interview has been broken down into multiple parts. Click here […]
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Read MoreCIO Of One Of The World’s Most Successful Hedge Funds Presents His Top Long

Egerton Capital was co-founded in 1994 by John Armitage. Since then, the firm has yielded huge profits for its investors. Some estimates put the total value of investing earnings at over $20 billion, making it one of the most profitable hedge funds of all time. [bufffett] Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more John […]
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Read MorePCS designates record number of catastrophe events in 2020
Highlighting the truly exceptional level of severe weather and natural catastrophe activity in 2020 so far, Property Claim Services (PCS) has already designated a record number of PCS Catastrophe events, with just over two months of the year left to run. Property Claim Services (PCS), a division of Verisk Analytics, has been tracking catastrophe loss…
Read MoreAriel Re to be acquired from Argo by private equity. Mather to return as CEO
Ariel Re, a reinsurance unit of Argo Group, is to be acquired by private equity investors and former CEO Ryan Mather will return to run the company, with a focus on leveraging traditional and alternative capital, as well as a property catastrophe leaning. The acquisition is being sealed in a deal led by Pelican Ventures,…
Read MoreHurricane Zeta wind & surge insured losses estimated at $4.4bn by KCC
Hurricane Zeta’s wind and storm surge impacts on Mexico and the United States are expected to cost the insurance and reinsurance market close to $4.4 billion, according to an early estimate from Karen Clark & Company. The catastrophe risk modeller is first out of the blocks with a post-landfall estimate of the insurance and reinsurance…
Read MoreAround 15% of ILS funds have COVID BI loss reserves of over 4%
Some higher-risk insurance-linked securities (ILS) and collateralised reinsurance funds have been forced to reserve more than 4% of their fund assets in case of losses from business interruption claims caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a report suggests. For the ILS fund market, the main exposure to losses from the pandemic is through business interruption claims…
Read MoreUSAA gets $400m ResRe cat bond. Lower-risk tranches price down
USAA has successfully secured the upsized target of $400 million of reinsurance limit from its latest catastrophe bond transaction, with the two lower-risk tranches of the Residential Reinsurance 2020 Limited (Series 2020-2) transaction pricing down significantly for the insurer. USAA returned to the catastrophe bond market around mid-October with its second cat bond transaction of…
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