Insurance is not set-it-and-forget-it in a world where the value of replacing property and possesions keeps going up.

In commercial real estate, investors monitor multiple financial metrics to assess the quality of an investment, such as capitalization rates, internal rates of return and cash-on-cash returns. These ...

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