Archive of entries posted on August 2012

The Top Ten U.S. Health Insurance Companies

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The healthcare industry in the U.S. is dominated by a few large companies.Private health insurance firms’ direct written premium totaled $395 billion in 2010. With additional health premiums written by life and other insurers, the total health premiums amounted to $560 billion according to SNL Financial. The number of people with no health insurance increased from 46.3 million in 2008 to 50.7 million …

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Knowledge is Power: Cars, Bond King, Student Loans Edition

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Note to Bond King: Check Your Math Investors Prepare for Euro Collapse Why U.S. student loans are not the next financial bubble Best Bank 2012: Santander storms through the Spanish crisis North against South in Europe? Car use declining in North America China: least of our worries, greatest of our hopes Is lending by state …

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Historical Performance Charts of Select Asian Equity Indices

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The long-term return charts of many equity markets is not easy to find online. This is especially true in the case of frontier and emerging markets. The following charts show the long-term performance of major equity indices in Asia. The risks with investing in emerging markets is confirmed by dramatic rise and falls of stock …

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External Debt of the G7 Countries

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The graph below shows the external debt of the G7 countries: Click to enlarge Source: Finance and Development, June 2012, IMF From the G7 Borrowing from Abroad article in the IMF magazine: The United States has the most external debt of the world’s richest countries (the Group of Seven major industrial countries, or G7), but as a …

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How Much Do Americans Pay in Insurance Premiums Each Year?

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The insurance industry in the U.S. is dividend into Property & Casualty (P&C) and Life/Health Insurance companies. In other countries, the industry is split into life and non-life or general insurance companies.The insurance industry employs over 2.2 million or about 2% of the total U.S. workforce in the private sector .There were about 2,689 P&C companies and 1,061 Life&Health companies in 2010 …

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