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Cover image for a BOK Financial report titled “Timing the market: How avoiding volatility entirely can hurt long-term reinsurance program performance.” The image shows several road construction barricades with flashing amber warning lights lined up in a nighttime work zone. Beneath the image, red text explains that avoiding volatility can mean falling behind inflation and missing market rebounds that drive long-term surplus growth. The BOK Financial logo appears at the bottom right.
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Timing the Market Can Hurt Long-Term Program Performance

For dealer-owned reinsurance entities, avoiding volatility entirely can mean falling behind inflation and missing market rebounds that drive long term surplus growth. Missing just a handful of strong market days can materially impact cumulative returns—an important reminder for long horizon trust and investment strategies.

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Newsby StaffOctober 5, 2021

autoniq Launches Wholesale Index, Helping Dealers Make Data-Backed Selling Decisions

With the new digital tool, dealers can see a quick summary showcasing the average local wholesale transaction price and average mileage of a specific vehicle’s make, model, year and trim.

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Newsby StaffOctober 5, 2021

Weekly Market Insights Report

As we move into the Fall season, wholesale prices began to show a positive movement once again and reached the highest point of the year last week.

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Newsby StaffOctober 5, 2021

Consolidation Continues with Asbury’s Pending Miller Acquisition

Asbury adds to the auto retail megadeals trend with its pending acquisition of Larry H. Miller Dealerships.

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Newsby StaffOctober 5, 2021

Will GM’s Dominance End Over Chip Shortage?

GM sales fall short of Toyota Motor Corp. over two consecutive quarters.

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ArticlesSeptember 30, 2021

Maximizing Your People

What’s your team capable of? If you think about it, the most powerful resource you have to build or grow your business are the people you pay to work with you — if you would just get out of their way and let them work.

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ArticlesSeptember 30, 2021

What Happens When Someone Doesn’t Get on Board with Your Vision?

Maybe resistance is not a definitive stance against you and what you are trying to do, but a desire to understand your thinking.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 30, 2021

Average Age of Vehicles on the Road Increases

IHS Markit finds the average age of a car on U.S. roads rose to 12.1 years in 2021, up from 11.9 years in 2020. In comparison, the average age was 9.6 years in 2002.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 30, 2021

New Vehicle Sales to Fall 25% in U.S.

U.S. new vehicle retail sales are expected to drop 888,900 units in September, from 1,182,788 a year ago.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 28, 2021

Black Book: Weekly Market Report

The market continued to make gains this past week, marking the fourth consecutive week of overall wholesale value increases.

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ArticlesSeptember 28, 2021

Improving Dealership Profitability: Product Knowledge Means More Sales

To be the better, more profitable dealer, know your products.

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