Entrepreneurs have seized the opportunity to start new companies in a wide variety of industries during the COVID-19 pandemic. While not all of these ventures will be successful, businesses that help alleviate some of the new challenges created by the pandemic are poised for long-term growth. Here are three industries that hold promising opportunities for entrepreneurs looking to start new businesses. 1. […]
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Personal loans could help cover unexpected expenses with lower interest rates. (iStock) Millions of Americans face unprecedented personal finance concerns as the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect unemployment rates months after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States. The Federal Reserve took steps in March to encourage […]
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Tom Niehaus is Executive Vice President, North America, at CTG. Getty Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is often credited for saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The Covid-19 pandemic undoubtedly qualifies. Over the past few months, many organizations have had to go into extreme lockdown mode, at […]
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Laura Boylan is the Head of Underwriting Solutions at Haven Life, a digital life insurance agency backed by MassMutual. getty For decades, life insurance sales in the United States have been declining, with fewer Americans purchasing life insurance and others remaining underinsured. In late February of this year, however, the Covid-19 […]
Insider Intelligence publishes thousands of research reports, charts, and forecasts on the Media, Advertising, and Marketing industry. You can learn more about becoming a client here. The following is a preview of the US Financial Services Digital Ad Spending 2020 report. Despite this year’s decline in total ad spending in […]
This summer, we face two simultaneous crises: a public health crisis caused by the coronavirus — a novel virus that has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and more than 10,000 people in Texas — and an economic crisis that has resulted in millions of Americans losing their jobs. […]
The usage-based insurance market is set to gain importance due to the pandemic. The UBI market is expected to reach $125.7 billion globally by 2027 at a compound annual growth rate of 23.0%. In our recent Usage-Based Auto Insurance Report, we discussed how this business model, which enables insurers to charge […]
(Bloomberg) — NatWest Group Plc joined its rivals in painting a grim picture of the coronavirus-stricken U.K. economy, taking a further 2.1 billion-pound ($2.8 billion) charge to cover soured loans and prepare for a severe recession. Britain’s biggest corporate lender set aside double what analysts expected, and said impairments would […]