>> I'm Colin [inaudible], I live and work in New York.
I work for Zurich North America and I work as an underwriter
for directors and officer's liability.
Basically, you charge with trying to assess companies risks and that can be in everything
from what's happening in the [inaudible] right now in a macro level to--
you know, one of the proper controls and the personnel involves at a corporate level
that can help a company mitigate risks.
At the same time, we go through public filings, look at the company's financials.
Make sure that they're performing well.
So it's really kind of perfect combination of research, reading, discussion of the team basis
and keeping up with what's going on in the world.
So I get in at about 7:45 in the morning and I spend the first 45 minutes kind of reading
up the news, catching up on what I've made a miss in the last 12 hours or so,
kind of making sure that there's nothing crazy that blew up before they're gone and nothing
that needs be imminently addressed and make sure we're well informed going into work [inaudible].
I actually work on west coasts clients
which means I have a 3 hour advantage everyday when I get in.
So I think spend the first few hours in my morning just kind of not being bothered.
Being able to go write to our research reports and making sure that I kinda can get focused in.
For us we deal with insurance brokers.
They're trying to place the coverage for their clients that often involves
like in negotiations whether its coverage based or premium based.
And so there's-- how to go back and forth and so that's kind
of till towards my afternoon given the fact that I work on west coast clients,
so there's not too much heavy hitting stuff that has to be done
after the closure of normal business hours.
I just still don't find myself checking my Blackberry despite the e-mails,
[inaudible] to the evening but fortunately, in terms of major documents, major reports I have
to get out, quotes for insurance programs, they pretty much know that, you know,
there's a chance it could be [inaudible], it could be a value [inaudible] for few hours.
And I think that's one of the good things about my job is there's a little bit of a balance
with the exportations that your going to have a little more to life than just the working world.