Insurance and float
Underwriting produces float, which is leverage that can be invested; the literature runs from risk theory to the failures that show what happens when pricing is wrong.
10 books · 9 people behind it
Start here
- The SnowballAlice Schroeder, 2008
- The Essays of Warren BuffettWarren Buffett, Lawrence A. Cunningham, 1997
- Against the GodsPeter L. Bernstein, 1996
The people behind it 9
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 4
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Peter L. Bernstein1 book here
Warren Buffett1 book here
Prem Watsanamed in their tagsTG
Thomas Gaynernamed in their tagsExecutives 1
Academics 1
Journalists 3
Books 10
Peter L. Bernstein · 1996 · The history of risk measurement that underlies all insurance.
Warren Buffett, Lawrence A. Cunningham · 1997 · Buffett's own writing on float, reserving and underwriting discipline.
T1 The Snowball
Alice Schroeder · 2008 · Buffett's biography; the fullest account of insurance float as a compounding engine.
John Rothchild · 2001 · Three generations compounding a fortune through insurance stocks
Andrew Tobias · 1982 · Consumer-side account of how insurers make money.
Godfrey Hodgson · 1984 · History of the market before the losses that nearly ended it.
Adam Raphael · 1994 · The Lloyd's of London Names catastrophe and unlimited liability.
T3 Fatal Risk
Roddy Boyd · 2011 · AIG Financial Products and the collapse of the largest insurer.
Maurice R. Greenberg, Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2013 · Insider defence of AIG's build-out by its longtime CEO.
Lawrence A. Cunningham · 2014 · The operating subsidiaries and how the insurance core supports them.