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“Cash WinFall isn’t being played as a game of chance. Some smart people have figured out how to get rich while everyone else funds their winnings,’’ said Mohan Srivastava, an MIT-educated statistician.

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To standardize asset liability management practices followed by insurance companies, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has asked insurers to develop an asset liability management (ALM) policy.

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Nearly half (46%) of North American insurers and reinsurers said they plan on being more aggressive in their respective investment strategies over the next year, according to findings from a new survey conducted by global professional services company Towers Watson.

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