But this being in Florida, he also brought up an issue as popular here as ethanol is in Iowa - a proposal for national catastrophe fund that would help lower insurance rates for homeowners.

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Indeed, the Casey Institute has yet to find a single U.S. investment bank, public pension fund, mutual fund or insurance company which includes a national security-related review in its "due diligence" assessments of emerging market entities.

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India's oil secretary, Vivek Rae, told reporters on the sidelines of an event here that the proposal is "under consideration" and national insurance and oil companies would have to contribute to such a fund.

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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners hired the advisory arm of PIMCO, a big fund manager, in 2009 to develop alternative risk-based capital requirements for the industry's holdings of residential mortgage securities.

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Health-insurance premiums in the Bay State have risen significantly faster than the national average, according to the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health foundation.

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