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# September 15, 2016: Trump and Insurers, TS Otto Building and Big Investors Dropping Hedge Funds Like a Bad Habit
- URL: https://www.riskmarketnews.com/september-15-2016-trump-insurers-ts-otto-building-big-investors-dropping-hedge-funds-like-bad-habit/
- Published: 2016-11-15T08:47:35.000Z
- Updated: 2016-11-15T08:47:35.000Z
- Author: Chris Westfall

## Risk Science: What You Need to Read Today

### [Would-Be Internet Weatherman Star Sets a Wildfire to Increase His Viewership](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/wannabe-weather-guy-moves-beyond-wishcasting-sets-his-own-wildfire/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Ars Technicha](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/wannabe-weather-guy-moves-beyond-wishcasting-sets-his-own-wildfire/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

To increase traffic to his Facebook page, Johnny Mullins took matters into his own hands.

### [New Zealand Earthquake: Up to 100,000 Landslides Amid Aftershocks – As It Happened](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/nov/15/new-zealand-earthquake-floods-wellington-kaikoura?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/nov/15/new-zealand-earthquake-floods-wellington-kaikoura?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Thousands of landslides and hundreds of tremors after 7.5 quake.

### [Tropical Storm Otto May Form in Last Gasp of Atlantic Hurricane Season](http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tropical-storm-otto-may-form-in-caribbean-sea-threaten-haiti-with-flooding/61551773?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Accuweather](http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/tropical-storm-otto-may-form-in-caribbean-sea-threaten-haiti-with-flooding/61551773?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A cluster of showers and thunderstorms in the western Caribbean has the potential to become the next named tropical system of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.

### [Inside Six of the Newest Top 20 Supercomputers](https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/14/inside-six-newest-top-20-supercomputers/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Next Platform](https://www.nextplatform.com/2016/11/14/inside-six-newest-top-20-supercomputers/?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Like other major weather forecasting centers, the UK Met Office makes major investments in its systems.

## Risk Business: What You Need to Read Today

### [Why Trump Means No Quick Fix for Insurers](http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-trump-means-no-quick-fix-for-insurers-1479215083?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [WSJ (sub may be required)](http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-trump-means-no-quick-fix-for-insurers-1479215083?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

A turn in yields will only help investment portfolios slowly at best.

### [Hedge-Fund Love Affair Is Ending for U.S. Pensions, Endowments](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/hedge-fund-love-affair-is-ending-for-u-s-pensions-endowments?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/hedge-fund-love-affair-is-ending-for-u-s-pensions-endowments?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Unhappy with mediocre results and high fees, pensions in states like Illinois, New York and Rhode Island are slashing their allocations to hedge funds.

### [Swiss Re to Sublet Part of London’s ‘Gherkin’ Tower](https://www.ft.com/content/c9162a66-aa7a-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Financial Times (sub may be required)](https://www.ft.com/content/c9162a66-aa7a-11e6-9cb3-bb8207902122?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

Reinsurer’s move is latest sign of financial services cutting property footprint.

### [SoFi Expands Into Life Insurance Through Deal With Protective](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/sofi-expands-into-life-insurance-through-deal-with-protective?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

#### [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/sofi-expands-into-life-insurance-through-deal-with-protective?ref=riskmarketnews.com)

SoFi has long had ambitions beyond lending.