Financials: The Ins and Outs of Insurance Stocks
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
oin us for a primer on how the insurance industry works, how insurers make money, and how to evaluate insurance stocks for potential investment opportunities.
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| 0:09.2 | Hello everyone, welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a |
| 0:14.8 | different sector of the stock market every day you are listening to the |
| 0:17.6 | financials edition tape today on Monday may 22nd 2017 my name is Gabby Lapera and joining me on Skype is Jordan Wothan, beloved |
| 0:26.5 | Motley Fool contributor and expert in financial companies. How's it going, Jordan? |
| 0:30.8 | Oh, it's going all right. How are you, Gabby? |
| 0:33.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:34.0 | Are you happy to be a beloved contributor? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm very happy to be a beloved contributor. |
| 0:38.0 | I think that's better than my last introduction. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. Which is something about being exotic, so I'll take it. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, that's okay. I think that exotic can be good too in certain context. |
| 0:47.6 | Anyway, listeners just in case you didn't remember this week is Insurance Day on industry focus financials so |
| 0:56.2 | we're gonna start the front half of the show is gonna be just basics about |
| 1:01.0 | an insurance company what they are how they make money some stuff that you need to look out for when you're thinking about investing |
| 1:06.2 | And then the back half of the show is going to be user submitted questions or I suppose a listener submitted questions that we're going to answer. |
| 1:13.0 | If you ever want your question answered on Industry Focus, |
| 1:15.2 | just send us an email at Industry Focus at fool.com. |
| 1:19.1 | OK, let's dive right into it because this is going to be an action-packed show and start with a super easy |
| 1:25.3 | question, which is, what is an insurance company? |
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