Fragmented Records, Insurance Economics, and High-Value Physical Assets Jeff Kluge: A White Paper for the Insurance Industry - September 2026 15 min read. If you would like the PDF version, please connect with JT Kluge on LinkedIn & DM. Abstract Insurance is an information business, but much of the information used to price, manage, and settle risk around high-value physical assets remains fragmented across the organizations that create it. The resulting problem is not simply incomplete...

The Instant $11 Million Trading Card On a summer evening in Boca Raton, Florida, a longtime customer of Boca Sports Cards opened a hobby box of 2026 Topps Chrome Baseball at home. Sliding out from the foil pack was a redemption card for a piece of memorabilia created only months earlier: the 1-of-1 Back-to-Back Dual Gold Logoman Autograph Relic featuring Shohei Ohtani. Within hours, what started as a pull at home became an international frenzy. A multi-million dollar bounty for the card had...

by: Jeff Kluge, EVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Artist, and host of Talking Art There are roughly 50,000 self-storage facilities in the United States. Combined, they hold more square footage than Manhattan. Americans spend upwards of $40 billion a year to keep things they cannot fit in their homes and will not throw away. This is not a logistics problem. It's an identity problem. Ask anyone what's actually in the unit and you rarely get an inventory. You get a story. A dresser that...