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Gautam Naik, Olivia Raimonde @ Bloomberg<\/em>: Wall Street Seeks Catastrophe Modelers and Weather Analysts<\/a><\/h2>\n
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With risk comes opportunity. At least that\u2019s the case for some of the biggest firms on Wall Street, who are searching for experts to help build out their insurance-linked securities desks.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s newsletter goes into the recruiting process and why it pays to be able to model natural disasters<\/a>. Plus, New York just got a huge influx of clean power<\/a>, but it still needs more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When Mitesh Parikh, a headhunter at UK recruiter Selby Jennings, started looking for an ILS modeler for a large US hedge fund this year, the pool of qualified candidates was disconcertingly small.
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It took a couple of months before Parikh was able to find the right candidate for his US hedge-fund client, whose identity he declined to disclose. The standard compensation package for such hires tends to be around $400,000 to $670,000, he said.
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Matthew Gault @ 404 Media<\/em>: A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead<\/a><\/h2>\n

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city [Taylor] to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bill McKibben: Trying to imagine a working world<\/a><\/h2>\n
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