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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 StaffApril 17, 2019

KBB.com Names 2019 Brand Image Award Winners

Honda, Lexus, and Toyota lead the nonluxury, luxury, and truck categories in Kelley Blue Book’s latest rankings of factories that successfully generate ‘attention and enthusiasm’ among new-car buyers.

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Newsby StaffApril 16, 2019

Singh Joins NAC as CTO

Twenty-year industry veteran Pankaj Singh has been named chief technology officer at National Auto Care, where he will lead the company’s IT and project management teams.

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Newsby StaffApril 16, 2019

Study: Americans Prefer Fewer Dealerships, Faster Decisions, Used Vehicles

Cox Automotive’s 2019 Car Buyer Journey report finds consumers are spending less time in dealerships and in the market, accelerating the decisionmaking process as a growing affordability gap continues to threaten new-vehicle sales.

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Newsby Tariq KamalApril 16, 2019

Trump Touts Tax Cuts on Dealer Visit

President Trump kicked off a weeklong public awareness campaign for the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with a visit to Nuss Truck and Equipment in Burnsville, Minn.

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Newsby Tariq KamalApril 16, 2019

NADA: F&I Income, Penetration Rates Remain Strong

Despite escalating new-car prices and plateauing sales, NADA analysts report little change to American dealers’ per-copy average, penetration rates, and F&I income as a percentage of gross profit in 2018.

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Newsby StaffApril 15, 2019

IHS: EV Sales, Loyalty Reach Record Highs

U.S. sales of all-electric vehicles more than doubled in 2018, a year in which EV buyer and lessee loyalty increased to 55%.

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Newsby Tariq KamalApril 12, 2019

Lamborghini Adds Selezione CPO Program

Lamborghini has launched a new certified pre-owned program in the U.S. and other markets, promising carefully maintained and thoroughly inspected and road-tested units to discerning used-car buyers.

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Newsby StaffApril 12, 2019

Dent Wizard Rebrands F&I Division

Dent Wizard has introduced Evolution, a rebranded F&I division dedicated to continued innovation in vehicle protection products and a high standard for customer service.

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Newsby Tariq KamalApril 11, 2019

Moreno Sells 7 Dealerships to Focus on Title Tech

Bernie Moreno has sold all but two of his auto dealerships to Canada’s Rafih group in an effort to devote himself more fully to his blockchain technology firm and its recently unveiled CHAMPtitles solution.

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Newsby StaffApril 11, 2019

Report: 2019 Depreciation Rate Up Sharply to 15%

Black Book and Fitch Ratings’ annual used-vehicle depreciation and auto ABS report predicts a 15% depreciation rate for U.S.-registered vehicles, up from 12.4% in 2018.

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