From September 10-14, a group of young (ages 30-50) business and financial leaders gathered in Montreaux, Switzerland at the fifth annual meeting of the G-20Y summit. The mission? To discuss sustainable prosperity in the face of a world increasingly at risk.

The summit covered ten issues specifically in a series of structured discussions from which attendees then developed sets of recommendations for the G-20 heads of state and leading international financial organizations. The topics ranged from energy markets, to food security, to global financial reform and other topics.

This year's summit was an especially important one, as it featured for the first time an insurance committee. This group discussed the role insurance plays in the global economy and how best to ensure that globally important insurance companies do not fail, endangering other sectors of the economy, as AIG's meltdown in 2008 did.

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