Danny heads up D&O, E&O and Cyber in the US for Trans Re, one of the market leaders in each line. In this episode we run through all the big issues in D&O:-Silicon Valley Bank and bank runs and how Directors and Officers liability underwriters

Death Spirals and Other Selection Problems with Amy Finkelstein

Jan 31st, 2023 1h 11m

Amy Finkelstein is Professor of Economics at MIT. Amy’s research focuses on market failures and government intervention in insurance markets and she has won numerous awards include a MacArthur Fellowship and the John Bates Clark Medal. Amy is c

Pricing Insurance Risk With Steve Mildenhall and John Major

Jan 8th, 2023 2h 28m

Nobody knew how to price volatility until now. I bet you're surprised! This isn't hyperbole, Steve Mildenhall and John Major have a deep and thorough understanding of all the relevant literatures and have been part of a loosely collaborative te

Mark Friedlander on Florida's Insurance Overhaul

Dec 20th, 2022 29m 43s

Mark Friedlander returns to talk through the changes to Florida's insurance laws. It's just about the most comprehensive reform anyone could imagine, even if all it does is put Florida residents on a similar footing to many other states!Assignm

Gary Mormino on the Social History of Florida

Dec 15th, 2022 1h 8m

Do you think Florida is weird? Most everyone does. Why? Gary is the man to answer this question. Gary is Professor Emeritus of the University of South Florida and has dedicated his career to studying the social history of Florida. Here is Gary

Dave DeMott's Stories About Florida Insurance

Dec 9th, 2022 42m 53s

Dave DeMott is President-Elect of The Florida Surplus Lines Association, Chair of the Legislative committee and sits on the national Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association committee.Most importantly for today, Dave DeMott is a real, legit,

Joe Edelman on Designing Meaningful Things

Oct 28th, 2022 1h 15m

I worry about whether we can improve the insurance system. I once wrote an essay arguing that all insurance is compelled, so the only way to get someone to buy insurance is to force them to do it. The implication is that nobody will ever do any

Mark Friedlander on Problems with Insurance in Florida

Oct 27th, 2022 29m 54s

Mark Friendlander is Director of Corporate Communications at the Insurance Information Institute a think tank focusing on insurance education. In this episode we dig into a bunch of detail of the ways in which the insurance ecosystem in Florida

Joe Petrelli on Rating Insurance Companies in Florida

Oct 22nd, 2022 1h 3m

Joe Petrelli founded Demotech, the rating agency that dominates the solvency assessment market for Florida's homeowners insurance market. This year (2022) he has found himself the bearer of bad news: that many of Florida's domestic insurance co

Brian Nosek on the Gap Between Values and Actions

Oct 8th, 2022 1h 10m

Brian Nosek, has been at the center of the two most important recent social revolutions in academia. First is implicit bias where Brian co-founded Project Implicit http://projectimplicit.net/ based on a pretty incredible idea: that we don't do

Jen Brady of Oasis Gives me Hope

Aug 5th, 2022 1h

This conversation gave me such a feeling of humility yet hope about our world. It's an awful place sometimes but some people are truly awesome at making it better. Jen Brady is the Executive Director of Oasis, a non-profit serving women and chi

Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

Jun 11th, 2022 1h 5m

Chris Blattman is an economist and political scientist and author of several books, most recently *Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace*. This is another installment in my investigation for how to pursue social change. What I

Tyler Cowen on Talent

May 17th, 2022 1h 6m

Tyler Cowen is an economist, author, podcaster, venture and philanthropic sponsor. Tyler is one of my intellectual heroes, this is his third appearance on this program and we'll be anchoring this discussion around his new book *Talent: How to I

Howard Kunreuther on Behavioral Economics of Risk

Apr 22nd, 2022 1h 1m

Howard Kunreuther is the foremost authority on applying behavioral economics to unlikely, high consequence events. I remain astounded that Howard's teachings are not part of the educational canon for all insurance professionals. This is importa

Robin Hanson on Distant Futures and Aliens

Mar 21st, 2022 1h 19m

Social science is brutally hard to do well. I once got a guest to admit there has been no progress on it ever and another one to say that moral progress is literally impossible. I think there's a deeper link to morality and social science than

Stan McChrystal on Risk and Leadership

Jan 26th, 2022 1h 7m

Stan McChrystal retired as a 4 Star General in the US Army and has since founded the McChrystal Group, written four books and launched a podcast. Stan is one of the world's foremost scholars and practitioners of leadership and in this conversat

Keith Dudum Never Asks for Business

Jan 14th, 2022 12m 18s

Keith Dudum produced millions of new commission last year and is on track to doing even more this year. He's a legend and never asks for business. So how does he do it?Dudum Financial:https://www.dudumfinancial.com/

Ga Bartick on How To Sell

Dec 3rd, 2021 1h 3m

GA Bartick teaches people how to sell an underappreciated skill with very general applications. GA wrote a book called Silver Bullet Selling and in this conversation we talk about- how small organizations should scale their founders- Has sales

David Zuby on Crash Test Dummies

Nov 6th, 2021 36m 10s

David Zuby is executive vice president and chief research officer for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and also a worldwide expert on crash test dummies! I found myself in an amazingly interesting conversation with David out in the fi

Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy

Oct 31st, 2021 1h 13m

Scott Sumner is the Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and blogger at themoneyillusion.com and econlog and author of two books: The Midas Paradox and more recently, The Money Illusion. Sc

Craig Hupper on ESG

Oct 25th, 2021 1h 29m

Craig is Head of ESG for Trans Re, a global reinsurance company and in this episode we dig into what ESG is about generally and what role reinsurers and the insurance industry plays today. In the episode we cover:* Is Trans doing this for the g

Joe Henrich on Cultural Evolution

Oct 4th, 2021 1h

Joe Henrich is Professor and Chair of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. He has written two books that have been incredibly eye-opening for me: The Secret of Our Success and the WEIRDest People in the World. Joe has put cultural ev

Mahbod Moghadam on Controversy

Sep 20th, 2021 1h 3m

Mahbod Moghadam is the co-founder of Genius (formerly Rap Genius), co-founder of everipedia.org, and co-founder of ozone.ai. My words but Mahbod helped build Genius by being a controversial guy online. Controversy does not make you universally

Uwe Dulleck on Credence Goods

Sep 7th, 2021 1h

Uwe Dulleck is a leading theorist on Credence Goods, a class of economic good defined by the fact that consumers can't verify the quality of what they've bought. Think car mechanics or medical procedures. Or insurance!Uwe's expertise doesn't en

Bryan Caplan on the Myth of the Rational Voter

Jul 18th, 2021 59m 19s

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and for Bryan's second appearance we're talking about how voters aren't all they're cracked up to be in terms of their ability to generate good electoral outcomes. I have two int