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Dennis Chan will lead investments in Asia excluding India and Japan. Dennis Chan, Photo credit: LinkedIn Dennis Chan has been appointed managing partner and head of Asia investments at SoftBank Investment Advisers, which manages SoftBank Vision Fund, the corporate venture capital fund of Japanese technology conglomerate SoftBank. Based in Hong Kong, Chan joined SoftBank Investment Advisers as a partner in the firm's China division in October 2019. He became managing partner of the division in 2021 and head of China investments in 2023. His role as head of Asia investments covers the region excluding Japan and India. Prior to joining…

Changing environment is the primary driver of growth in health reinsurance – AM Best | Insurance Business America Reinsurance Changing environment is the primary driver of growth in health reinsurance – AM Best Director says there has been a significant increase in the volume of transferred insurance premiums Reinsurance Kenneth Araullo Doniella Pulis, director at AM Best, discussed insights from a recent report showing the growing role of health care reinsurance due to rising health care utilization and health care inflation. Health insurance is recognised as one of the fastest growing sectors, accounting for around 50% of global premium income,…

No. 10 Florida State opens the 2024 college football season on Saturday at the Irish against ACC rival Georgia Tech. The Seminoles went undefeated in the regular season last year to win the ACC but ultimately missed out on a spot in the College Football Playoff, while Georgia Tech is looking to advance further after posting its first winning record since 2018. This will be the first meeting between the two teams since 2022, when Florida State comfortably won at home, 41-16.Kickoff for the 2024 Aer Lingus College Football Classic will take place at noon ET from the Aviva Stadium…

Key Takeaways Bitwise acquires ETC Group, adding $1 billion in assets and nine European-listed cryptocurrency ETPs. The acquisition increases Bitwise's total assets under management to over $4.5 billion. Share this article Bitwise Asset Management has acquired ETC Group, a London-based cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) issuer with over $1 billion in assets under management. According to the company's announcement, the acquisition marks Bitwise's entry into the European market, adding nine European-listed cryptocurrency ETPs to its portfolio.ETC Group’s suite includes the largest and most traded physical Bitcoin ETP (BTCE), as well as ETPs for Ethereum with Staking (ET32), Solana (ESOL), XRP (GXRP)…

GDP serves as a key indicator to assess the economic size of a country. Traditional approaches to measuring a country's GDP include the expenditure method, which tally up spending on new consumer goods, new investments, government spending, and net exports to arrive at a total. This article aims to introduce the top 10 largest economies in the world in 2024, ordered by GDP. Also see Top 10 Richest People in the World in 2024.Top 10 World Economic Powers in 2024What are the top 5 countries in the world by GDP? In 2024, the United States, China, Germany, Japan, and India…

SparkCharge Charging as a Service is now up and running. Pioneer Power Solutions Co., Ltd. has formed a strategic partnership with SparkCharge Inc., an electric vehicle charging and delivery service company. Through this partnership, Pioneer's off-grid, sustainable mobile EV charging solution, e-Boost, will be integrated into SparkCharge's mobile battery energy storage system. The collaboration combines Pioneer's e-Boost with SparkCharge's EV Charging as a Service (CaaS) model to accelerate the adoption of mobile EV charging with battery energy storage. Together, the two companies aim to bring new value to the mobile EV charging market and accelerate technological advancements in the industry.…

Union Netflix While looking for something to watch on Netflix this weekend, my wife and I decided on The Union, an action spy movie with a dash of comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. It wasn't good. The Union felt more mediocre than anything I've seen in a while. Critical and audience reviews were middling to poor and seemed to say the same thing. When I watched the movie, it felt like not just a movie born out of a Netflix algorithm that pairs concepts and actors into a movie people want to watch, but the kind of movie…

Christians are the largest immigrant group, but Jews are more likely to have emigrated. (Mirsad Salajlic/Getty Images) For this report, we collected data on the existing “stock” of international migrants – all adults and children currently living outside their country of birth, regardless of when they left. (The report does not estimate migrant “flows” – the number of people moving across borders in a year.) Our goal was to describe the religious composition of international migrants (how many are Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim) and how many are unaffiliated (e.g. atheist, agnostic etc.). We did not analyse patterns for…

In a study recently published in JAMA Network Open , researchers looked at the relationship between Colorado’s $100 out-of-pocket limit and out-of-pocket spending, medication adherence, and health care utilization for diabetes-related complications. Study: Changes in health outcomes among people with type 1 diabetes after state-level insulin copayment caps are implemented. Image credit: Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock.com background Diabetes is the most costly chronic disease in the United States, and people with type 1 diabetes require lifelong insulin therapy. Although insulin costs have remained stable despite manufacturer price cuts, list prices are 10 times higher than in most other countries. This financial burden has…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis' visit to Asia and Oceania in September will be a journey of religious, economic and social contrasts. The 87-year-old Pope will visit four countries from September 2 to 13, making it the longest journey of his papacy in terms of both distance traveled and number of days away from the Vatican. The journey will also take him to Muslim-majority Indonesia and Christian-majority Papua New Guinea, as well as Asia's economic powerhouse Singapore and Timor-Leste, one of the world's poorest countries. The trip was planned for September 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic put everything on…