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RIMS 2010 Boston

One of the coolest things about working from the press room at the RIMS Annual Conference is the ample amount of press releases available to journalists and other media professionals. Various companies in the risk and insurance industry are eager to spread the news of their new surveys, studies or products, and it shows — [...]

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The Sun Hates You

by Morgan O'Rourke on April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

You would never know it amid the cloudy, 40-degree weather here in Boston, but the sunny days of summer will be with us before you know it. The thing is that while many of us (particularly my fellow Northeasterners)  look forward to a little more sun in our lives, I’m not so sure the sun [...]

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Swan Sighting

by Bill Coffin on April 28, 2010 · 0 comments

This has been a pretty content-rich conference, but today is the day I have been waiting for. Today, Nicholas Nassim Taleb is the RIMS Leadership Luncheon keynote speaker. If you don’t know who Taleb is, you really ought to. He is a veteran trader, professor at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute and is best known [...]

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I trekked over to New Hampshire — or at least it seemed that way after the amount of time it took to get to the very interesting session titled Global Risks, Local Impact: The View from Davos. Speaking on this topic were Brian Elowe and John Merkovsky, both with Marsh, who spoke about the World [...]

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