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Insurance accelerator announces inaugural class

 

The first participants in Des Moines’ new Global Insurance Accelerator are truly global, with startup technology companies coming from Brazil and Germany as well three Midwestern companies and a Silicon Valley startup in the …

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Things to fear about the stock market in 2015

 

Six years into the bull market in stocks and there’s no shortage of scary things on investors’ worry list, according to a recent story by CNNMoney.

 

From Vladimir Putin and Greece to the dramatic plunge …

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Iowa bankers like the looks of their local economies

Iowa bankers are optimistic about the health of the state and local economies over the next six months, according to a survey by the Iowa Bankers Association.

 

The survey ran the gamut of Iowa …

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Outage frustrates last-minute Obamacare enrollment

An outage on Saturday of an Internal Revenue Service function for Obamacare enrollment could have prevented about 500,000 people from meeting the Feb. 15 deadline, but nearly all should have the chance to sign up …

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EMC reports best per-share operating income since 2005

EMC Insurance Group Inc. today reported operating income of $15.42 million for the fourth quarter, compared with operating income of $12.49 million for the same period in 2013. Fourth-quarter net income, including realized investment gains …

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American Equity reports fourth-quarter earnings, sales

West Des Moines-based American Equity Investment Life Holding Co., a leading issuer of fixed index annuities, on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $31.2 million, or 39 cents per share, compared with $51 million, or …

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Henry Fund expects lower unemployment, single-digit market growth

The Henry Fund research team at the University of Iowa expects generally favorable economic conditions in the United States the next couple of years.

The Henry Fund is a $2.8 million fund managed by finance …

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3 Questions for Troy Caraway

A year ago, West Des Moines-based UnityPoint Health acquired Physicians Plus Insurance Corp., a Madison, Wis.-based health insurance company that it plans to use as a platform for developing a regional health insurance division. Six …

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CRE Professional of the year nominations open

The Business Record is now accepting nominations for the inaugural Great Western Bank Commercial Real Estate Professional of the Year award.

 

The award is designed to highlight an outstanding CRE professional from Central Iowa for his …

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Commissioner: Time running out for remaining CoOportunity members

The Iowa Insurance Division is strongly urging that CoOportunity Health insurance policyholders who have not yet switched to a different carrier act immediately to secure new health insurance coverage, prior to the Feb. 15 open …