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The Complete List of Stocks That Pay Dividends in October
Data updated daily Constituents updated annually The end goal of many dividend growth investors is to create a high-quality portfolio of dividend stocks that generates sufficient passive income to cover their living expenses. One of the challenges of this goal is generating a dividend income stream that does not vary much on a month-to-month basis.…
Read MoreThe Complete List of Stocks That Pay Dividends in September
Data updated daily Constituents updated annually Retirees face several unique challenges from an investment perspective. One is the desire to have a consistent amount of passive income being generated each month. In order to do this, retirees need information and data on what stocks pay dividends in each month of the calendar year. That’s where…
Read MoreThe Complete List of Stocks That Pay Dividends in August
Data updated daily Constituents updated annually Retirees who rely on a portfolio of high-quality dividend growth stocks to cover their living expenses have their work cut out for them. Creating a portfolio that pays a similar amount of dividend income each much is harder than it sounds. That’s where Sure Dividend comes in. We maintain…
Read MoreInsurance-linked securities largely immune to Covid-19: Lohmann, Schroders
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) have once again demonstrated their lack of correlation to global financial markets in proving themselves “largely immune” to Covid-19 related volatility, Dirk Lohmann has said. Insurance-linked securities (ILS), such as catastrophe bonds and other collateralised reinsurance structures, proved themselves resilient in the face of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to Dirk Lohmann,…
Read MorePandemic losses may exceed WTC, at extreme tail reach $140bn: WTW
The insurance and reinsurance industry is likely facing a larger industry loss from the Covid-19 pandemic than it experienced with the 2001 World Trade Center event, but at the extreme tail-end of probabilities the impact to the market could reach $140 billion, Willis Towers Watson warned today. In a report filled with large numerical estimates…
Read MoreCovid-19 an “interesting test case” for ILS: Frank Majors, Nephila
It’s too early to say exactly how the current pandemic plays out, but the challenges are expected to provide an interesting test case for the collateralised and insurance-linked securities (ILS) business model, according to Frank Majors, Co-CEO and President of Nephila Holdings, and a Director of Nephila Capital. In a recent video interview, which you…
Read MoreCovid-19 a “catalyst for all round market hardening” – Willis Re
The Covid-19 pandemic is proving to be a catalyst for an expected broad hardening of reinsurance and retrocession markets it seems, with brokers expecting rates to move largely in unison as the financial impact to carriers appears likely to hurt all corners of the market. But one area of the market that had already been…
Read MoreSwiss Re well-hedged for hurricanes, thanks to alternative capital: CUO Schmid
With natural catastrophe reinsurance premiums underwritten having jumped at Swiss Re in the last year, the company has continued to make use of insurance-linked securities (ILS) investor appetite to help it prepare its portfolio for the coming hurricane season. Swiss Re’s target for natural catastrophe premiums underwritten in the group’s property and casualty reinsurance segment…
Read MoreHannover Re grew its fronting for ILS business by 7% in 2019
Global reinsurance firm Hannover Re continued to expand its activities in the fronting space, with the volume of limit fronted for insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors and funds increasing by 7% during the year. Hannover Re has positioned itself as one of the key facilitators for the ILS market, with its activities spanning a number of…
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