Matthew Palazola is a 20 year sell-side research veteran formally working on the #1 ranked Institutional Investor Magazine P&C Insurance research team at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. He currently leads the US P&C Insurance research team at Bloomberg Intelligence (BI), the in-house research team at Bloomberg with 200 analysts covering over 2,000 companies. Matthew has extensive experience in research franchise building, financial modeling, idea generation as well as authoring company and industry reports. Aside from research franchise management, his current responsibilities include mentoring and leadership, collaborating with non-BI functions within Bloomberg such as MODL while appearing on television, radio and podcasts.