October 28, 2019· 51 min
Why Taiwanese Life Insurers Are The Great 'Whodunit' Of The Financial World
Orality
Model
89%
Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,967 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,230 words)
M:29%
GuestBrad Setser(4,457 words)
M:26%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic31%
huge, obviously, massive
Engagement57%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, like, so
Repetition100%
taiwanese (67x), bank (61x), taiwan (61x)
Parallelism98%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So I'm sorry...., So today, we're going to talk ...
Sound Patterns40%
32 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases5%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging11%
may, probably, apparently
Passive Voice10%
is based, is based, is based
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, community, business
Subordination9%
because, until, while
Sentence Length40%
Avg: 14.9 words/sentence
Word Complexity50%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style43%
462 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style92%
apply, really, lately
Description
You probably haven't thought much about the Taiwanese life insurance industry. Why would you have? But they're among the most fascinating entities in the financial world. And for a long time they've been a source of incredible mystery. They've built up a gigantic position in foreign, US-dollar denominated assets in order to fund domestic liabilities denominated in Taiwanese Dollars. But how do they hedge this currency mismatch? Nobody has figured it out until now. On this week's podcast, we speak with Brad Setser of CFR and Exante Data about how he and a pseudonymous partner finally cracked the code. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.