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    How Reinsurers Help Hedge Funds Shelter Taxes

    Onshore. For property and casualty.
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    How Reinsurers Help Hedge Funds Shelter Taxes

    Not enough to start a reinsurer. But I am working on building a domestic captive!
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    How Reinsurers Help Hedge Funds Shelter Taxes

    Since you looked at Einhorn's reinsurere, how many people work there? What is their reinsurance liabilities? How much of the assets are invested in Greenlight vs some stable portfolio of bonds? Buffet's reinsurer (General RE) is head quartered in Connecticut and actually sells reinsurance...
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    How Reinsurers Help Hedge Funds Shelter Taxes

    No. And I'm sure you didn't analyze all of them as well. But the general scheme is to put your money in a re-insurance company and buy the minimum reinsurance required (something like 30%) to keep the company "legitimate" and then invest the other 70% in your own hedgefund tax free. The...
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    More layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save

    Tax Cuts are forever. Jobs are temporary.
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    How Reinsurers Help Hedge Funds Shelter Taxes

    They aren’t bona fide businesses so i think banjos characterization is fair.
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    volatility term structure question

    Thanksgiving week means less vol the week of the 24th
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    volatility term structure question

    There is a difference in expected forward vol. If you tell us the ticker, we can see if there's an obvious explanation why.
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    American Woman Faces 20 Years In Zimbabwe Jail For Tweet About Mugabe

    The right believes that employers have a right to discriminate on any criteria that they want. This is a core belief because it allows them to pass anti-gay legislation using freedom of religion as an excuse: Freedom of religion for the employer.
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    The Reason why Republicans lost Virginia

    Did you see his twitter post about using his daughters halloween candy to teach her about socialism?
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    Rolling Uncovered Puts

    It has earnings on 11/16 and they are important as they will forecast holiday sales. Independent of your current position, are you willing to be short puts into that? It's not a rhetorical question.
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    0 bid price on an option? (beginner)

    I don't know why OPs asking questions won't share the ticker. They think they are giving away some secret by doing so. And in the meantime everyone who can answer the question spends many posts speculating on the specific situation. If he shared the ticker, the question would be answered in 10...
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    Rolling Uncovered Puts

    What's the stock ticker?
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    Short-Volatility Funds Are Being Flooded With Cash

    kind of like your keys are always in the last place you look.
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    Jeff Bezos Sells $1.1 Billion Amazon Shares With Stock at Record

    The rest is in the gates foundation.
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    Howard Dean Expects Jared Kushner To Be Indicted For Money Laundering

    You bring up a good point about people investing in funds and clubs for access to a US president. Margo largo membership fees doubled. And ceos tend to visit trump resorts when he visits. Clearly it's a form of payment for access and this should be investigated.
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    Citadel’s Kenneth Griffin to Donate $125 Million for University of Chicago Economics

    When you are making a B a year, why not? Maybe it will help him meet sorority girls there.
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    Another Day, Another Mass Shooting, What else is new?

    Oh good. You are alive. I had a concern you were the shooter.
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    Another Day, Another Mass Shooting, What else is new?

    He probably didn't. Trump knows who the shooter is and hasn't made a comment about muslims. So now everyone is "reserving judgement" until they get the facts.
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    Opinion: The tax bill deserves to die

    San Fran is very regressive for businesses. The dearth of startups is proof of that.
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