The global economy has proved to be surprisingly shock-proof in the 2020s, the World Bank Group’s Chief Economist, Indermit Gill, writes in his Foreword. Yet a grimmer picture emerges over a longer ...

Top 50 World’s Largest Reinsurance Groups — 2026 is based on global rating agency AM Best data and research. The reinsurance groups ranked by unaffiliated gross reinsurance premiums written. Many of ...

Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025, increasing by 1.2 percentage points compared to the first half of the year, with roughly one in six people ...

Abstract: Variable Subset Forecasting (VSF) presents a critical challenge where variable availability fluctuates between the training and inference stages. This paper introduces a novel solution to ...

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Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. A variable annuity is a way to get the stability of a ...

The fund invests primarily in variable-rate preferred stocks, including fixed-to-floating, resettable, and floor-rate instruments, with a strong emphasis on the financial sector. With a low expense ...

Global to buy Worldpay from FIS and GTCR for cash and stock To sell issuer solutions unit to FIS for $13.5 billion Deals will focus Global on merchant payments, FIS on banks As part of the deal ...