Best and Worst Insurance Stocks for 2016
In hot economies and cold, most everyone needs insurance. But not everyone needs insurance stocks. Share prices rise and fall on not only on demand for policies, but on the returns insurers can earn investing their assets – the money they've collected in premiums, but not yet paid out.
So, with the economy warming and yields on bonds and other holdings likely to inch up, are insurance stocks a good bet for 2016?
Read a few forecasts by insurance stock analysts and you find some optimism, but not much raging enthusiasm. It looks like 2016 will be a year for careful picking and choosing among insurance stocks, with plenty of uncertainty even for those in the "buy" column.
