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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business

And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. Product improvements such as hurricane-resistant doors can nearly eliminate certain disaster risks and have relatively low installation costs.

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VC Stereotypes About Men and Women Aren’t Supported by Performance Data

Harvard Business

Nonetheless, statistics show that women-owned businesses, which account for one-third of Swedish businesses, are not granted the corresponding proportion of government venture financing; in fact, women-owned businesses receive only 7%. Value of real estate: the scope of collateral for taking on larger loans. Risk-taking.

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Will Wall Street Be Able to Earn the Trust of Younger Investors?

Harvard Business

First, they created a combination of breakthrough product innovation and breakthrough business model innovation— the definition of category creation. In financial services, there are signs that traditional products like mutual funds are beginning to wane. on half a billion dollars invested on the platform to date.

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Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Well, asset managers aim to understand client investment objectives and invest client funds in a variety of financial products and asset classes. Retail asset managers will offer a variety of products including mutual funds, index funds and specialized pools. Asset Management Business Model. Asset Management Fees. Image: Pexels.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

You can’t predict how the bursting of a Chinese real estate bubble plays out because it plays out in very small steps,” said Joel H. Rothstein, a partner in the Beijing office of the Paul Hastings law firm who specializes in Asian real estate. Here we are again, in another slowdown.

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What the Data Says About Women in Management Between 1980 and 2010

Harvard Business

Female managers are concentrated in fields that emphasize people-centered caring skills, while men are concentrated in fields dealing with production-centered skills. Other managerial occupations that became majority-female were education administration, human resources, property and real estate, and finance.

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Obsess Over Your Customers, Not Your Rivals

Harvard Business

That’s because most companies view their competition as another brand, product, or service. Sure, someone in your company needs to understand the marketplace: who your competition is, what other products are on the market, and how they are doing, at a basic level. Most companies think they sell a product.