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Insurance Sector

Hot Stocks in This Sector	Manulife Financial, Prudential Financial, MetLife, American International Group, Conseco, W.R. Berkley, Berkshire Hathaway, Brown & Brown.
Related Sectors	Banking.
Hot Sectors	Investing, Healthcare, Banking, Services, Energy.
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Industries in the Insurance Sector

• Insurance Brokers

• Accident & Health Insurance

• Surety & Title Insurance

• Property & Casualty Insurance

• Life Insurance

Insurance Upgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
10/15/2009	EMCI	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods	Underperform	Market Perform
10/12/2009	ALL	Atlantic Equities	Underweight	Neutral
10/06/2009	TMK	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods	Market Perform	Outperform
10/06/2009	AIZ	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods	Market Perform	Outperform

Insurance Downgrades

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Old Rating	New Rating
11/11/2009	AXA	Morgan Stanley	Overweight	Equalweight
11/06/2009	RNR	Goldman Sachs upgrades Travelers (NYSE: TRV) and XL Capital (NYS	Neutral	Sell
10/29/2009	RNR	Fox-Pitt	Outperform	In-Line
10/29/2009	RNR	RBC	Outperform	Sector Perform

Insurance New Coverages

Date	Ticker	Analyst	Rating
10/26/2009	DFG	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods	Outperform
10/01/2009	AFL	Sandler O'Neill	Hold
09/18/2009	LNC	FBR Capital	Outperform
09/17/2009	FSR	Stifel Nicolaus	Buy

Insurance Earnings

Date	Ticker	Actual	Expected	Prev Yr Qtr
11/10/2009	MHLD	0.23	0.24	0.25
11/10/2009	AIG	2.85	1.98	-68.40
11/10/2009	KFS	-2.41	-0.23	-0.32
11/10/2009	PICO	-0.08	0.03	0.03
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Stock of the Day

The Insurance Sector's AIG (AIG) was InvestorGuide.com's Stock of the Day on 9/4/2009.
Don't Bet the College Fund on AIG
One of the juicy stories during these lazy last few weeks of summer has been the transformation of (former) insurance giant AIG from the laughing stock of the financial world to the darling of the stock market. The stock went through an embarrassing 20 to 1 reverse split (to get it out of the penny stock neighborhood) in July and since then has more than doubled in value. AIG is still over 80% owned by the government and owes Uncle Sam $80 billion in loans. But the fact that investors are willing to take a chance on it is partly a result of typical investor behavior after a brutal bear market. For a lot of investors, a 10% gain on a stock is not going to even make a dent in the huge hits they have taken, instead they need spectacular gains to make their money back -- AIG is now being seen as an opportunity to do that. In other words, the stock has become more of a lottery ticket than an investment vehicle. Read more

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