underwriter
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Not that he wants to be a poet: “I don’t want to write,” he confesses to his friend June, who, for practical reasons, has decided to become an insurance underwriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Working as an underwriter should give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares ultimately set aside for its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Milling about, too, was Othelyn Elaine Little, 25, an insurance underwriter from Yonkers, New York.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
While impressive, the underwriter fees get split up across the banks and aren’t the real money-maker.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
Assur′edness; Assur′er, one who gives assurance: an insurer or underwriter: one who insures his life.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Revere Securities, one of the top underwriters of foreign penny-stock IPOs, agrees to an $800,000 fine for failing to flag suspicious activity without admitting or denying the findings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The filing lists 18 firms as underwriters, and Oura said Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Allen & Co. and Jefferies were the lead bookrunners on the deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Bankers wore green Nike sneakers in a nod to SpaceX’s “greenshoe” option, which allowed the underwriters to sell more shares than originally planned in the event of heavy demand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
As part of its stock offering, Intel expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to $2.25 billion of additional shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even so, the fire prompted insurance underwriters to take a closer look at the building, and what they saw frightened them.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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