Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is well known as a leader in the area of catastrophe modeling and analytics. The company provides its services to a broad range of insurers, reinsurers, consultants and capital markets participants who are active in the property and casualty insurance industry.
More recently, the company has developed resources that focus on life and health risks. Though initially focused on...
An article on indexed annuities appeared in Bloomberg yesterday (click here to read).
The article is substantive and comes from a credible source. It is provides a good explanation of why surrender fees need to be a front-and-center consideration for any consumer considering the purchase of an...
After a tough couple of years for former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and in an era when the phrase affordable health insurance seems like an oxymoron, it is time to provide some credit where credit is due.
Chairman Greenspan hit the nail on the head in his recent book The Age of Turbulence.
The following are Greenspan’s comments regarding entitlement spending and the healthcare system:
The bottom line in the success of all retirement systems is the availability of real resources at retirement…The financial arrangements associated with retirement facilitate the diversion of resources that make possible the consumption of goods and services after retirement, but
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It appears that people who have access to the...
Meir Statman is the Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, and Visiting Professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
His research on behavioral finance has been supported by the National Science Foundation, CFA Institute, and Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) and has...
