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

Oct 23, 2026

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9 min read

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.

Oct 9, 2026

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7 min read

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.

Sep 29, 2026

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8 min read

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.

Aug 12, 2026

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6 min read

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.

Jul 24, 2026

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6 min read

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.

Jul 11, 2026

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5 min read

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.

Jun 25, 2026

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4 min read

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.

May 29, 2026

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6 min read

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?

May 15, 2026

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5 min read

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
Hard Market Issue 3: My mother-in-law called me with a question. I couldn't answer it.

May 1, 2026

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6 min read

Hard Market Issue 3: My mother-in-law called me with a question. I couldn't answer it.

My perspective on what's happening in the PE-owned life and annuity space

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 2: Inside the U.S. Life Insurance Industry's Private Credit Buildup

Apr 14, 2026

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3 min read

Hard Market Issue 2: Inside the U.S. Life Insurance Industry's Private Credit Buildup

Private credit is now the engine of U.S. life insurance, and regulators are starting to scrutinize the buildup.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans
Hard Market Issue 1: Notes on the Strait of Hormuz

Apr 3, 2026

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4 min read

Hard Market Issue 1: Notes on the Strait of Hormuz

A lot is happening in insurance right now. I'm going to start explaining it.

Charlie Evans
Charlie Evans

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