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Hard Market Issue 12: Why not run an insurer like a pod shop?

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Oct 23, 2026

Hard Market Issue 12: Why not run an insurer like a pod shop?

Insurance has been organized into pods for decades - they don't behaves like Millennium for a reason.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 11: Where losses hide when prices fall.

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Oct 9, 2026

Hard Market Issue 11: Where losses hide when prices fall.

Private credit’s 'performing' loan problem has an insurance equivalent. It’s called the third quartile.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 10: Blackstone's index.

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Sep 29, 2026

Hard Market Issue 10: Blackstone's index.

Why an index of insurance risk is never passive.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 9: Buying the dip isn't a thing.

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Aug 12, 2026

Hard Market Issue 9: Buying the dip isn't a thing.

Why capital keeps leaving the market at the wrong time.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 8: Skin in the game.

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Jul 24, 2026

Hard Market Issue 8: Skin in the game.

Why dollar alignment matters more in the insurance capital markets.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 7: Six minutes vs. six years.

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Jul 11, 2026

Hard Market Issue 7: Six minutes vs. six years.

Nothing entrenches a cost base like results good enough to afford it.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 6: The bad year isn't in the sample.

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Jun 25, 2026

Hard Market Issue 6: The bad year isn't in the sample.

What the standard investor toolkit misses, and what allocators should focus on instead.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 5: Same fact sheet. Different trade.

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May 29, 2026

Hard Market Issue 5: Same fact sheet. Different trade.

Insurance-linked, uncorrelated, double-digit, diversifying — and still not the same trade.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 4: Are insurance returns really rate-neutral?

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May 15, 2026

Hard Market Issue 4: Are insurance returns really rate-neutral?

The textbook says returns are rate neutral over the cycle. Here's what happens in between.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
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