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Holland & Co. Chairman Mike Holland on why he expects stocks to go higher and where the opportunities are for investors.
Thousands of flights have been canceled as a blizzard that could reach historic proportions sweeps up the Eastern Seaboard. More than 3,000 flights have been cancele...
Allstate Corp. (ALL) surprised Wall Street with a fourth-quarter profit, a new buyback program and the largest dividend increase since the financial crisis--all desp...
Chubb Corp.'s (CB) fourth-quarter earnings declined 77% as hefty costs related to Hurricane Sandy weighed on the property-and-casualty insurer's results.Still, the c...
Americans shared their homes with 377.4 million animals in 2011, according to the American Pet Products Association survey.Cats were the most popular pet, at 86.4 mi...
Insurers see opportunity to sell protection against kidnap risk in southern Europe, predicting that recession and social unrest triggered by the euro crisis will dri...
Natural catastrophes like hurricanes and earthquakes cost the U.S. upwards of $160 billion in insured losses in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by Muni...
Markel Corp.'s (MKL) agreement to buy fellow specialty insurer Alterra Capital Holdings Ltd. (ALTE) for about $3.13 billion in the biggest U.S. insurance deal this y...
Chubb Corp. (CB) expects its hit from superstorm Sandy to reach $570 million after taxes, including reinsurance.The insurer said its after-tax losses are likely to b...
The U.S. Treasury's sale of its remaining stake in American International Group Inc will fetch $7.6 billion, bringing the government a total profit of $22.7 billion ...
Travelers Cos. (TRV) said it likely took a $650 million hit from Sandy, the massive storm that hammered the Northeast in late October.The insurer's estimate is signi...
Travelers Cos. (TRV) said it likely took a $650 million hit from Sandy, the massive storm that hammered the Northeast in late October.The insurer's estimate is signi...
Art Has Cachet -- and RiskArt can be a tempting investment, with its creative mystique and potential for soaring values. Attending glittering events such as the annu...
Exchange traded funds have been around in the U.S. for over two decades. One would think that would be enough time for professional investors to figure out two impor...
U.S. stock market futures fell Friday as investors grew cautious ahead of an initial reading on U.S. growth data, due later. Earnings from Chevron Corp. and D.R. Hor...
Chubb Corp.'s (CB) first-quarter earnings rose nearly 30% as the property-and-casualty insurer posted higher net premiums written and lower losses.Chubb, which sells...
Insurance companies are still very concerned about low interest rates pinching their investment profits. But for the first time in years, their second biggest concer...
Travelers Cos. (TRV) boosted its dividend Tuesday as the property-casualty company's first-quarter results beat Wall Street expectations, helped by fewer natural dis...
Insurance company technology is already monitoring drivers with devices like Progressive's "Snapshot," which logs your mileage, speed, braking and other data. Now an...
A favorite tool of value investors, the price-to-cash-flow is a gauge of the market's beliefs in a company's future financial health. Uses as an indicator of relativ...
