Insurance companies

Marine_life

Yields are quite attractive (especially after the last week).

What am I missing?

Maybe not exciting growth but reliable returns?

bigfreddiel

You should also check dividend cover, how do they look now

fj

EdGasket

Marine_life wrote: »

Yields are quite attractive (especially after the last week).

What am I missing?

Flood claims?

Linton

In my view insurance companies are a valuable, even essential, part of an income portfolio, particularly since the demise of the banks. There are a variety of different types of insurance companies - eg pension providers and household insurers, and a wide range of sizes from world ranking multinationals to small specialists.

Outside the well kown names, Aviva, Prudential, L&G, Phoenix, Standard Life, the FTSE250 insurers can be particularly lucrative. Look up Chesnara and Beazley. However past performance is no guide etc etc You do need to do you own research.

I hold Phoenix, Chesnara, and Beazley.

Marine_life

Linton wrote: »

In my view insurance companies are a valuable, even essential, part of an income portfolio, particularly since the demise of the banks. There are a variety of different types of insurance companies - eg pension providers and household insurers, and a wide range of sizes from world ranking multinationals to small specialists.

Outside the well kown names, Aviva, Prudential, L&G, Phoenix, Standard Life, the FTSE250 insurers can be particularly lucrative. Look up Chesnara and Beazley. However past performance is no guide etc etc You do need to do you own research.

I hold Phoenix, Chesnara, and Beazley.

Thanks for the tips ;-)

Marine_life

EdGasket wrote: »

Flood claims?

Good point but I'm mostly looking at continental European based companies