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By Jon D. Markman On August 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Water covers most of the planet. Yet, fresh drinking water remains a precious commodity in many places. It’s one of life’s rich riddles.
A Spanish company has a solution. Abengoa S.A. (MCE:...
By Gavin Magor On August 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The healthcare reform debate keeps raging in Washington. But two trends are clear from our unbiased analysis of data from more than 1,600 individual health insurance companies: The number of...
By Remi Lukosiunas On August 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...
By Gavin Magor On July 27, 201707:00 AM Eastern
As you may know, buying life insurance is one of the easiest activities to procrastinate over. Most people must go through some life-altering event before they’re even willing to talk about life...
By Mandeep Rai On July 26, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If there are two major things we learned during the epic, 70%-plus crash in oil prices between 2014 and 2016, it’s that …
1. The market as a whole can continue on its merry way even when an...
By Mike Larson On July 21, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The hype about healthcare coming out of Washington never ends. Republicans keep trying (and failing) to repeal and replace Obamacare … derailed by worries about Medicaid funding and the rise in...
By Jon D. Markman On July 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It started with $2 million worth of Fitbits. Very quickly the project evolved to 3D printed helmets with nanofiber sensors.
That’s what happens when the military decides the Internet of...
By Gavin Magor On July 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Adequate capital is the most important factor when it comes to analyzing any insurer. That’s because capital levels can indicate what might happen to a company if the going gets tough and policy...
By Jon D. Markman On July 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Passively managed exchange-traded funds are clobbering the performance of actively managed mutual funds this year. And brainy portfolio managers are starting to freak out.
A recent piece in The...
By Jon D. Markman On July 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
By 2030, the United Nations wants everyone on the planet to have a digital identity. It’s an enormous task.
Microsoft (MSFT) and Accenture (ACN) have been tinkering with blockchain schemes for...