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More American Investors Get Comfortable with Cannabis By NutraRisk, an Amwins Specialty | June 2, 2021
This post is part of a series sponsored by NutraRisk, an Amwins Specialty.
More Americans are showing a growing interest in adding cannabis stocks to their investment mix. In fact, of the investors surveyed by GOBankingRates, nearly 1 in 10 investors said they are willing to put their money in cannabis stocks, with 10% having already done so. However, most experts agree that for Americans to become truly comfortable with diversifying their financial portfolios by investing in the cannabis industry, cannabis use must first become legal at the federal level. According to the GOBankingRates survey, about one-third of respondents said they would likely start investing in cannabis if marijuana were legalized on the federal level.
Insuring Cannabis Summit: Capacity, Vaping Among Issues in Industry Going Forward December 14, 2020
Editor’s note: This is part of a series of articles based on panels and presentations during on Nov. 19.
If there is one big problem in the insuring cannabis space – where issues include property rates, the impact of COVID-19, crime, vaping – it may be capacity.
Carriers and reinsurers are still largely shying away from the cannabis business because it’s still considered illegal in the eyes of the federal government.
“Property capacity, in general, across the broader insurance market, in E&S, has become a little more difficult of late due to a reduction of capacity,” said Norman Ives, a wholesale insurance broker at Worldwide Facilities LLC specializing in custom insurance products and risk management for the cannabis industry. “We’ve seen increases of rates of in the E&S lines anywhere from 15 to 30%, across no loss accounts