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Expert Tips on How to Create an Investment Strategy That Works With Your Goals

Strategy Driven

For illiquid investments, you can consider real estate investing. You may also decide to invest in the real estate market or other physical products that increase value with time. As a beginner, you only need to dip your toes as you test the market. If you want a liquid investment, stocks would be the best.

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The Importance of Workers Compensation Insurance for Hawaii Businesses

Strategy Driven

Companies can purchase private market insurance from licensed insurers or through the assigned risk pool operated. HEMIC operates the state’s assigned risk pool for those who can state scope on the private market. Every business in Hawaii is required by law to carry workers’ compensation insurance.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Third, people are over-optimistic and thus underestimate their own risk exposure. And the risks are real: Zillow’s research predicts that $400 billion dollars of real estate value in Florida could be at risk from climate change by the year 2100. Dating back to at least F.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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How to Protect Your Organization From the Amazon of Your Industry

Strategy Driven

Mergers and acquisitions have been around forever, but there is a new legal form of conquest that is allowing organizations to steal market share from well-established businesses. The menace of which I speak is the digital marketing organizations that are springing up in most industries, offering services on a pay-per-lead basis.

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How to Get Our Savings on the Move Again

Harvard Business Review

Some politicians claim that unsystematic loan losses, like the $2 billion loss JP Morgan recently suffered, significantly increase the risk of another financial crisis. A 30% drop in real estate prices, which systematically threatened all lenders with upwards of a trillion dollars of losses, caused the financial crisis.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

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