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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 StaffDecember 3, 2019

Understory Launches Sensor-Based Dealer Hail Insurance

Understory has released Auto – Hail Safe, a new hail insurance product designed to combine ground-truth weather detection with new coverage and claims technology.

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Newsby StaffDecember 3, 2019

Discounts, Incentives Stabilize New Vehicle Prices in November

Kelley Blue Book reports the average cost to buy a new vehicle was $38,393 last month, a 1% year-over-year increase restrained by frantic efforts to move 2019-MY inventory.

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Newsby StaffDecember 2, 2019

Pre-Owned Values Down 1.4% in November

Black Book reports retained values for used vehicles decreased sharply last month. If the index holds through December, it will end 2019 on a year-over-year decline of nearly 2%.

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ArticlesDecember 2, 2019

Data Mining: The Golden Opportunity You’re Ignoring

Why wait for slow times to mine your database? Expert offers a four-step plan to make data mining a full-time profit center — and all you need is a process and a champion.

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Newsby StaffNovember 27, 2019

HGreg.com Acquires Massive South Florida Nissan Dealership

Canadian auto group HGreg.com has added an eighth Florida dealership to its roster, acquiring the former AutoNation Nissan Kendall, one of America’s biggest Nissan stores.

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ArticlesNovember 27, 2019

5 Reasons Your Dealership Belongs in the Cloud

Where would you rather keep your valuable data and mission critical applications — in a rack of in-house servers or under the close watch of a tech giant’s team of experts?

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Newsby StaffNovember 26, 2019

Frontier Leads Early Wave of Lease Price Drops

The latest report from Wantalease.com finds several factories already offering lease discounts ahead of the usual year-end rush.

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Newsby StaffNovember 26, 2019

UDS Acquires Dealer Marketing Link

UDS announced the acquisition of Dealer Marketing Link, a Pennsylvania F&I services provider.

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ArticlesNovember 25, 2019

Tesla’s Electric Pickup: Is It a Work Truck?

Fleet Forward’s Chris Brown takes an up-close look at the Tesla Cybertruck and asks whether an (almost) indestructible exterior can help it break into the U.S. fleet market.

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Newsby StaffNovember 25, 2019

Report: Spike in Wholesale Volume Hurts Pre-Owned Values

Prices for used vehicles declined 4.2% in the first 10 months of 2019 while volume increased 5.2%, J.D. Power analysts say, a trend that has begun to affect the commercial market.

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