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I grew up loving politics. At age 11, I watched my mom run for and win a city commissioner position in our small town in Ohio. In 7th grade, I wrote Ronald Reagan a detailed letter with my solution for lowering the national debt. In high school, I was active on student council, and by…
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With the exception of Estonia and Latvia, all European countries covered in today’s map levy a dividend tax, with the top rates varying significantly. Greece levies a tax of only 5 percent on dividend income, while Ireland taxes dividends at 51 percent. Over the last three years, eight European OECD countries have made changes to their dividend…
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Global Parametrics and reinsurance giant Hannover Re are together supporting a weather risk insurance pilot scheme that is powered by Arbol’s technology and smart contract driven marketplace for weather risk transfer. The pair are supporting the AGRIBEE Crop Insurance Pilot with capacity to enable the provision of extreme weather protection cover for smallholder rice farmers…
Read MoreFor many Americans who have yet to retire, the golden years seem further off these days. Around 68 million workers have reconsidered their retirement timing due to the coronavirus pandemic, with about one-third of them now thinking about delaying retirement, according to a recent Edward Jones report. Folks who are already retired might feel their…
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The CRESTA organisation will soon launch a global industry loss index solution, that will provide insured loss data and event descriptions for natural catastrophe insured loss events around the world. CRESTA was established by the insurance and reinsurance industry in 1977 as an independent body for the technical management of natural catastrophe insurance. Now managed…
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The catastrophe bond market saw continued positive momentum throughout the third-quarter of 2020 and despite continued financial market uncertainty and volatility as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the result was an above-average quarter of issuance, according to the latest report and data from Artemis. Our latest quarterly report on the catastrophe bond and related…
Read MoreThis story originally appeared on FlexJobs. COVID-19 has put a renewed spotlight on the importance of remote work. However, whether or not the pandemic is the tipping point for remote work to become the new normal remains to be seen. Although furloughs and layoffs have been widespread during the pandemic, the unemployment rate in the…
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Commercial lines focused insurtech platform provider Insurwave has raised £5 million of additional funding to drive further growth and help it expand service offerings for parametric trigger design more broadly into complex commercial insurance and perhaps reinsurance lines. Insurwave is a platform for the insurance ecosystem and among the offerings it has for carriers is…
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In the second-half of 2020, while impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic continue for the U.S. property and casualty (P&C) insurance space, carriers may find themselves more impacted by losses from recent and continuing catastrophe events, Fitch Ratings has said. Pandemic-related insured losses and premium volume declines caused by the economic situation will continue to adversely…
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