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Insurance
Aon chief calls for better models for ‘stressed’ property insurance market
...“The challenges are real,” said Aon chief executive Greg Case, in an interview with the Financial Times....
April 7, 2024
The Aesthete
The Elder Statesman’s Greg Chait talks taste
...The best gifts I’ve given recently are both from The Elder Statesman. One was the Yosemite Socks, which are amazing to wear around the house....
May 10, 2024
FT Live
Investing in America
Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness
Tuesday, 10 DecemberHybrid Conference
LexCorporate governance
Concentrated power at the top of businesses remains a red flag Premium content
...It has said that Greg Fitzgerald will combine the roles of executive chair and CEO after its May annual meeting. That is at odds with the UK corporate governance code....
April 19, 2024
Unhedged
Warren Buffett: The world’s richest index-hugger Premium content
...But it is not clear (to me anyway) what exactly he means by this, given that the S&P is a diversified index that growing companies automatically enter and shrinking companies automatically leave....
May 7, 2024
Corporate bonds
Corporate defaults at highest rate since global financial crisis, says S&P
...Chemical and healthcare companies may also be at risk over the coming months given the sectors’ high concentration of poorly rated incumbent companies with negative cash flow, she added....
March 14, 2024
US equities
US small-caps suffer worst run against larger stocks in over 20 years
...“I’ve been investing in small-caps for almost 30 years and you haven’t seen big money moving into the space since 2016 or 2017,” said Greg Tuorto, a small-cap portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management...
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Xi’s balancing act with Europe
...He said that Greg Abel would one day make the lion’s share of Berkshire’s investment decisions. That gives him oversight of hundreds of billions of dollars. So no pressure there, Greg....
May 6, 2024
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Buffett sounds wildfire alarm as utilities industry enters new era
...Prospective wildfire payouts prompted S&P Global and Moody’s to downgrade PacifiCorp’s debt ratings last year....
March 1, 2024
News updates from December 15: Rudy Giuliani ordered to pay $148mn to 2020 election workers, Israel mistakenly kills three hostages in Gaza
RTX appoints former Pratt & Whitney head as chief executive
...Before being appointed RTX’s chief operating officer, Calio was P&W’s president....
December 14, 2023
Due Diligence
The FT puts Warren Buffett’s lieutenants under the microscope Premium content
...They are perhaps the biggest outstanding questions for Berkshire Hathaway investors, given the 93-year-old publicly anointed his successor, Greg Abel, in 2021....
May 2, 2024
News updates from December 14: BoE and ECB hold rates steady, ECB’s Lagarde pushes back against rate cuts expectations
RTX appoints former Pratt & Whitney head as its new chief executive
...Before being appointed RTX’s chief operating officer, Calio was P&W’s president....
December 14, 2023
Equities
Small stocks, big problems
...In contrast, the S&P 500’s price-to-book ratio is close to the record 5 times it touched in 2021 and 2000 (the Nasdaq’s P/B ratio is close to 7.5 times)....
April 17, 2024
OpenAI
OpenAI releases Musk emails to show he backed for-profit plans
...Given the expense of building AI tools, that presented a barrier to its stated mission to develop increasingly sophisticated AI “that benefits all of humanity”....
March 6, 2024
Berkshire after Buffett
Berkshire after Buffett: can any stockpicker follow the Oracle?
...Alongside Buffett’s chosen successor as chief executive, Greg Abel, they will also decide how a record $168bn cash pile is allocated, a sum so vast that the sprawling investment conglomerate could buy up...
May 1, 2024
News updates from April 17: UK inflation falls less than expected; Boeing engineer says safety concerns are ignored
Ottawa pushes Canadian pension funds to invest domestically
...Canada’s main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, has advanced 31 per cent since 2019, compared with a 74 per cent gain for the S&P 500....
April 16, 2024
FT Live
Global Insurance Summit
Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve
Thursday, 13 JuneLondon, UK
Unhedged
A better bull market? Premium content
...Gold’s underperformance then and rise now are a real puzzle, given that real rates, the gold price’s usual bête noire, were nothing then and are high now....
March 7, 2024
Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater’s chief says he has ‘rewired’ world’s largest hedge fund
...Greg Jensen, one of three co-chief investment officers at the firm, who is leading the initiative, called it “unquestionably an experiment” at this point....
May 9, 2024
US equities
Narratives rule everything around me
...On the surface, this hasn’t happened (at least in the large-cap world), given the S&P 500 rose by 10.2 per cent in the first quarter while the fed funds futures market went from pricing in nearly seven cuts...
April 9, 2024
Energy Source
Why oil prices remain steady even as Middle East tensions escalate Premium content
...“The oil market is waiting,” said Daniel Yergin, author and vice-chair of S&P Global....
April 18, 2024
Equities
Structured products and the ‘broken Vix’ discourse
...Xu wonders why options-based yield-enhancement funds are growing so quickly, given that the ZIRP era is over and Treasury bills now give you 5 per cent a year....
March 13, 2024
Tesla Inc
Winning lawyers in Musk pay dispute may make billions
...Lawyer fee awards have become a hot topic in courts in Delaware, where more than 300 S&P 500 companies are incorporated....
January 31, 2024
Exchange traded funds
ETFs tracking lawmakers’ trades ‘outperform’
...The findings might also reignite the debate over whether members of Congress should be able to make active stock trading decisions, given their potential access to confidential tradeable information....
May 1, 2024
Unhedged
Are higher rates inflationary? Premium content
...Just how those net out isn’t obvious, but given the structural supply shortage in the housing market, our bet is it would be inflationary....
April 18, 2024
Ian Smith
It is right that reinsurers are finding it harder to fly under the radar
...If P&C reinsurers tend to hover in the background, life reinsurers are not even at the party....
May 7, 2024
Derivatives
Nasdaq bets on boom in ‘zero day’ options with new contracts
...Options contracts give investors the right to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price by a given date....
November 26, 2023

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