Vlad Barbalat
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638 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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We are incredibly diversified in our insurance businesses.
You're spot on in the way you've just described what Ajit said, but we think about the similarity between...
Not all our insurance lines, but particularly those more esoteric ones are really in the commercial and specialty space as very similar in spirit to the practice of what investing is, which you're deploying capital into uncertainty to achieve a return.
That's true across both.
The risks tend to be not six months and one year risks.
They tend to be multi-year risks.
The same disciplines and the same conceptual framework applies to
How do you manage your reserves?
How do you manage your liquidity?
These concepts go back and forth between the balance sheet.
Let's be clear, these businesses operate in their own spheres and ecosystem, not a lot of operational synergy, but definitely strategic synergy.
Yes, I do love America.
And we're going to celebrate America's 250th birthday this summer.
When you're born outside the United States, you are exposed to a way of life that is very difficult to actually
understand for those that are fortunate enough to be born in the United States.
You take certain things for granted.
You assume they are like gravity because they just exist, but they're not.
I was born in Moldova, a former Republic of the Soviet Union, currently an independent country right outside of Ukraine.
I was very, very fortunate that my parents decided to uproot their life in 1990 and make the
journey to the United States.
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