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Portfolio Performance of Property-Liability Insurance Companies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Robert J. Monroe  and
James S. Trieschmann
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Results of the analysis imply that rates of return on the property-liability portfolios included in this study are less than rates of return on either the investment company portfolios or the Standard and Poor's industrials. However, it appears that these differences are likely due to different investment objectives of the different portfolios.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 1595 - 1611
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1972

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