‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ – Unknown While you may not know what a GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) is, you have undoubtedly seen one, from twirling hard hats to jumping cats, the internet has grown up with GIFs at its heart. Designed in 1987, […]
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With Halloween and Thanksgiving just around the corner, it is inevitable that many are already making plans for Christmas. A time where families over indulge on turkey, ham and other delights and reminisce about the past twelve months. It’s been a year in which democracies […]
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As underwriters, brokers, analysts, claims pros, modellers, software gurus, and all the rest haul their very lightest dark wool suits to the cleaners in advance of Monte Carlo, some will be carrying a related seasonal burden. It’s the time of year when many in our […]
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“Nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles.” Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey), The Wolf of Wall Street July 6 2016 saw the release of Nintendo and Niantic’s joint venture, Pokémon Go, marking their debut in the app market. […]
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“There is a city beneath the streets” ― Robert E. Sullivan Jr. One can only imagine the daily chaos that would occur without the existence of the London underground. Traffic jams, however, would be the least of our worries if the tube didn’t exist. The […]
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The Rio 2016 Olympic Games are here, so we’ve put together an infographic full of the facts and figures, from tickets sold to social stats, to get you into the Olympic spirit.
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Celebrated artist Thomas Kinkade once said: “Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit (and vegetables) of a successful life.” Britain’s growing interest in health and fitness has encouraged the rise of the ‘superfood’, in other words fruit and veg with hard to pronounce names like acai, […]
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By Imogen Lindsley @HaggiePartner Person 1: Do you know what a woman and insurance have in common? Person 2: They are both expensive, difficult to understand and what you get is not guaranteed. Person 1: Do you know the difference between a man and a life-insurance policy? […]
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Those who recall the formative days of catastrophe bonds and exotic derivatives like ‘CatEPuts’ will remember that ‘ART’ was set to replace international catastrophe relief. It would bring the trillions of dollars made and lost each day in the world’s capital markets to bear for the […]
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By Ollie Hendry @HaggiePartner Social media: the devil incarnate to octogenarian executives, but the saviour of the savvy, the progressive, and the hangover-ridden student alike. Recent estimations suggest that there are 2.3 billion social media users worldwide who are active on numerous constantly-evolving platforms – just recently […]
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