Insurance Isn't Just Transferring Risk Anymore
Private credit didn't just find a new source of capital—it may have changed the role of life insurance itself. Andrew Granato and Pranjal Yadav explain why insurance regulation, guaranty funds and opa...
5 Aug 53min
Can Big Tech Become The Next Insurance Company?
For years, the biggest competitive battles in insurance have been between insurers. Underwriting. Pricing. Capital management.But artificial intelligence may be changing the rules.What if the next maj...
29 Jul 42min
Jane Kim and California's Insurance "Hostage Situation"
Jane Kim just finished first in the race to become California's next insurance commissioner. She's a former San Francisco supervisor and worked for Bernie Sanders. And where Allen wants to draw privat...
22 Jul 32min
The Price Is the Forecast
Weather derivatives have struggled with liquidity for 25 years. Jim Huang thinks prediction markets can finally fix that — but only if the contracts are built around events people actually watch.In th...
15 Jul 36min
Risk Doesn't Disappear, It Gets Allocated
In this week’s episode we are digging into California's insurance market — and specifically, into the fight over who actually owns wildfire risk. Is it the insurers pulling back from high-risk areas? ...
8 Jul 39min
Venezuela, The Built Environment And Lessons of a Catastrophic Earthquake
This week we focus on the tragic catastrophe in Venezuela, where powerful earthquakes tore along the San Sebastián fault and devastated Caracas. As a result, buildings collapsed, the airport shut down...
1 Jul 38min
Sticky Liabilities, Illiquid Assets and the Private Credit Perception Gap
A year ago, I sat down with Carmi Margalit, Managing Director and the Life Insurance Sector Lead at Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference to talk about private credit on insurance balance shee...
24 Jun 29min
