Samir Shah on Innovating Capital
An episode of the The Not Unreasonable Podcast podcast, hosted by David Wright, titled "Samir Shah on Innovating Capital" was published on March 19, 2021 and runs 68 minutes.
March 19, 2021 ·68m · The Not Unreasonable Podcast
Summary
Samir Shah is Co-Founder and CEO of Ledger Investing, former Chief Reinsurance Office and Head of Capital markets at AIG. Samir started his career as a pension actuary and management consultant. I came across Samir at the tail end of my reinsurance broking career and his business fascinated me. If you were wondering why I've never gotten into a knock-em-down drag-em-out deepest dive imaginable into insurance capital and the constraints on innovating at the very tippy top of the chain, y...
Episode Description
Samir Shah is Co-Founder and CEO of Ledger Investing, former Chief Reinsurance Office and Head of Capital markets at AIG. Samir started his career as a pension actuary and management consultant.
I came across Samir at the tail end of my reinsurance broking career and his business fascinated me.
If you were wondering why I've never gotten into a knock-em-down drag-em-out deepest dive imaginable into insurance capital and the constraints on innovating at the very tippy top of the chain, you are in for a treat.
If you listen closely to this you'll see that we actually slide into some serious heterodox territory on several occasions: are capital markets actually more efficient for taking risk? Are insurance results uncorrelated to other asset markets? Is insurance capital not a commodity? If these are suspect what is the key to unlocking a lower cost of capital for insurance?
Listen to see what Samir has to say!
Show notes:
https://notunreasonable.com/?p=7311
youtube: https://youtu.be/diERmzI7YSc
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