underwrite
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He also confirmed that Buffett is in the office five days a week to help advise Abel on matters from underwriting insurance to picking stocks.
As public funding for higher education has eroded, universities have increasingly turned to wealthy donors to underwrite major projects and supplement budgets by endowing professorships and research centers.
From Salon
This upends the basic arrangement that underwrote great cities—what they are, how they work and who pays for them.
This compares with a $4.8 billion result for 2025, which it described on Friday as a record high and said reflects disciplined underwriting, strong investment returns and low large loss activity beyond the first quarter.
They said the fears surrounding Blue Owl aren’t tied to evidence of losses or poor underwriting, but rather to a misunderstanding.
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