Diego Segura

During the 90 years between 1871 and 1960, the S&P 500 annual dividend yield never fell below 3%. In fact, annual dividends reached above 5% during 45 separate years over the period.

The sharp change in S&P 500 dividend yield traces back to the early to mid-1990s. For example, the average dividend yield between 1970 and 1990 was 4.03%. It declined... See more

Still, becoming a real, regulated insurance carrier meant Lemonade needed more time to launch and more capital to grow. (A carrier typically must maintain cash reserves equal to at least a third of revenue, Sagalow notes.) So far, the capital has flowed—and from some big names. Through 2017, Lemonade raised $180 million in four rounds. In 2019, it... See more

Can you tell which is which? I can’t. We had a sales team for a few years, then we didn’t. Can you tell when we made the switch? I can’t.

Last fall, as the panic heated up, hardly anyone had heard of Meredith Whitney. ``I guess my clients knew who I was,'' she says, ``but the rest of the world -- I don't think so.''

At times, three to four new essays by Publius appeared in the papers in a single week. Garry Wills observes that this fast pace of production "overwhelmed" any possible response: "Who, given ample time could have answered such a battery of arguments? And no time was given."[

That was seen in March when violence erupted across India during Ram Navami, which marks the birth of Ram. Over 20 people were injured in different parts after groups of Hindus marched through Muslim neighbourhoods waving saffron flags and swords as they danced and shouted along to anti-Muslim songs blasting from loudspeakers.

One of the songs with... See more

When we did Smartwater with Jennifer Aniston , that was the first time I saw an equity-cash combo deal, when Jennifer was a part owner of the company, which then sold to Coke [for $4.1 billion in cash].