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Article Thursday, April 14, 2016. These mergers will produce tough competitors with diversified portfolios, sturdy balancesheets, greater scale, and advanced capabilities, including consumer engagement, provider collaboration and informatics, population management, and digital channels.
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It breeds indifference, which in turn breeds a yawning gap between underwriters, whose balancesheets absorb risk (the risk takers), and customers, whose enterprises create risks (the risk makers).
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.” GreenBiz founder Joel Makower defines a stranded asset as “a financial term that describes something that has become obsolete or nonperforming well ahead of its useful life, and must be recorded on a company’s balancesheet as a loss of profit.”
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