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Corporate America Not Likely To Unwind COVID-19 Debt Buildup Despite Credit Hits Blog Infrastructure Issues: Tools to Dig Deep on Potential Risks Part Two IFRS 9 Blog Series: The Need to Upgrade Analytical Tools 29 Jan, 2021 Author Hailey Ross It was a busy week for insurance stocks as earnings season started in earnest, two sizable deals in the life space were announced, and amateur traders threw the broader markets into a short-squeezing feeding fre...

Operator Good morning, and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the RLI Corp.s Fourth Quarter Earnings Teleconference. [Operator Instructions] Before we get started, let me remind everyone that through the course of the teleconference, RLI management may make comments that reflect their intentions, beliefs and expectations for the future. As always, these forward-looking statements are subject to certain factors and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer...

Operator Welcome to Marsh & McLennans conference call. Todays call is being recorded. Fourth quarter 2020 financial results and supplemental information were issued earlier this morning. They are available on the companys website at mmc.com. Please note that remarks made today may include forward-looking statements, including certain expectations related to COVID-19 and other matters. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and a variety of factors may cause actual res...

"If he had acquired a portfolio company for $18 billion or purchased $18 billion in the stock of a public company, we would call it significant," said James Shanahan, Edward Jones analyst, who estimated the buybacks through Oct. at $18.4 billion and maintains a positive outlook on Berkshire shares. "Few better places for Berkshire to allocate its capital than to investing in itself with share buybacks," says Lawrence Cunningham, author of several books about Warren Buffett and Berkshire, and a...

What Warren Buffetts losing battle against S&P 500 says about this market CNBC 1/8/2021 Eric Rosenbaum With $140-billion-plus in cash, analysts described 2020 as another year in which the lack of a transformative deal from Warren Buffett weighed on investor sentiment. Buffetts biggest buy: at least $18 billion in buybacks of Berkshire Hathaway shares. The 2019-2020 two-year performance gap between Buffet and the S&P 500 index was among the widest by which he has ever trailed, ...