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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 07/01/2026

ICYMI: Berkshire Hathaway, Chubb and AIG are among a group of insurers that provided directors’ liability insurance to First Brands, the bankrupt car parts maker.

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 10/11/2025

Tfw your credit ratings are very normal

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 14/10/2025

The insurance industry has stepped up efforts to limit future payouts over for petrochemical disasters, following a record judgment by Sri Lanka’s supreme court over the world’s biggest recorded plastic spill. on.ft.com/4n49rvU

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 02/09/2025

Thanks ‪@matt-levine.bsky.social‬ for featuring the story in Money Stuff :)

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 02/09/2025

Munich Re also criticized cat bond investors for being super selective, only taking on the most statistically improbable risks. By contrast, when it does this with its own clients, it’s to ensure prices stay high enough to earn a healthy profit, Munich Re told me:

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 02/09/2025

The world’s biggest reinsurer has warned that the growth of private investment in cat bonds could raise volatility in insurance markets, if hedge funds + other private investors suddenly pulled out. My story: on.ft.com/47piXpb

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 07/08/2025

Interesting new study from NY Fed compares how lenders treat unmapped flood risk (due to FEMA’s outdated maps). Big banks are lending less and charging more in risky areas. Non-banks and local banks are still originating the loans but then securitizing or moving them off their balance sheet

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 27/05/2025

NEW: The boss of the world’s biggest litigation funder has accused Chubb of abusing its market power, after the insurer said it would freeze out lawyers, bankers and asset managers who worked with the sector

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 24/05/2025

>Insurance regulator: Small credit rating agencies like Kroll are giving higher scores to private credit, vs bigger groups like Fitch >Fitch calls attention to this >Regulator retracts the study >JPM note warns of “potential ratings inflation” in private credit 👀

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 21/05/2025

NEW: US life insurers have shifted more than $1 trillion of liabilities offshore, offloading more risk despite regulators’ concerns about protections for retirement savings and broader financial stability.

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 09/03/2025

Chairman French Hill last month introduced a bill with Richie Torres, the Democrat from New York, making the case to end the nuclear taboo to help the west compete with China and Russia in exporting and financing the technology. on.ft.com/4if2SVD

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 09/03/2025

African business leaders such as Charles Mensa, who ran Ghana’s biggest aluminium smelter, have long said nuclear should be an option — especially for energy-intensive industrial development where it could help boost broader growth on.ft.com/3DrSA5m

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 22/06/2024

I wrote about ocean-based carbon removal startups—one that just shut down, and one that’s moving ahead with a commercial-scale facility. The company that’s moving ahead makes green hydrogen as a “byproduct” of its carbon removal credit business: on.ft.com/3VS5y2F

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 15/04/2024

A new tool from the Center for Active Stewardship shows how big companies cut emissions. For ex, Walmart and Target made headline cuts, but mostly through “trading”, or buying power purchase agreements and renewable energy credits, which can be lower-quality drivers. activestewardship.org/splice/

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 15/04/2024

The co-founders of Unwritten, which looks to turn climate risks into company-level “cash flow” models, previously led a climate data team at Palantir. One told me there’s “a sense that we’ve pushed this carbon emissions thing really pretty far, and how much more can we get out of it.”

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 02/12/2023

Danny who’s your political hero? Well I can’t say @madisoncondon.bsky.social …

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 07/11/2023

Truly sublime lineup at this year’s DERVOS I’ll be moderating a panel on the politics of distributed energy resources, like solar panels and electric cars. Event is sold out, but join the livestream on Thursday: www.eventbrite.com/e/dervos-liv...

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 02/11/2023

Matt Frantzen, President of UAW Local 1268, on being invited to meet personally with Biden: prospect.org/labor/11-02-...

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 23/10/2023

I wonder why this deal isn’t getting more attention from critics who point out that the US lacks sectoral bargaining. The construction industry is generally fragmented. But solar is concentrated—big opportunity to hash out a master agreement between EPCs, developers and labor.

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Lee Harris @leeharris.ft.com · 06/10/2023

Bluesky will feel real to me when Albert Pinto arrives. REPOST or type AMEN in the comments to tell @70sbachchan.bsky.social to get over here!

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