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PFG: Bull or Bear?

Insurance companies were bankrupt after all? Graphic_rating_sell PFG
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83%
 -32.90%
in 91 days
Perhaps it is by inference only, but why else would insurance companies need TARP love from our money-printing government unless they were staring at bankruptcy "on paper"? It is not hard to fathom how an insurance company gets into a world of trouble. These are institutions which MUST invest premiums into financial securities in order to make money. Not to mention the cutthroat competition on premiums themselves, vs expected payouts. I don't know anything about insurance companies beyond GS pointing out that PFG is amongst those to be wary. So while singling out PFG, there are...
By  utopius   (+16.27%  risk: aggressive)  04/09/09 Comment


Bullish on PFG ... Graphic_rating_buy PFG
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62%
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in 121 days
Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement savings, investment, and insurance products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation, and Life and Health Insurance. The U.S. Asset Accumulation segment offers defined contribution pension plans, including 401(k) and 403(b) plans, defined benefit pension plans, nonqualified executive benefit plans, and employee stock ownership plan consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses; investment-only products, such as guarante...
By  Marian Filo   (-24.55%  risk: aggressive)  03/10/09 1 comment


where there's smoke there's fire Graphic_rating_sell PFG
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83%
 +30.83%
in 113 days
(closed on 04/09/09)
See Goldman Sachs research on insurance companies from a month ago. AIG has gone far below zero, not sure why our gov't feels the need to support AIG shareholders when they clearly deserve nothing? But the one big mistake of AIG's astronomical $150bn plus bailout dollars, is AIG is now under-bidding on insurance products which puts pressure on the remaining insurance companies. Even if PFG is not directly affected, insurance companies have tough road ahead as far as investing premiums. Bonds, stocks, money-market funds and just about every asset class is treading on thin ice lately, and...
By  utopius   (+16.27%  risk: aggressive)  12/16/08 Comment


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Principal Financial Group Vulnerable to Commercial Real Estate Softening? Graphic_rating_sell PFG
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In a recent edition of Value Investor Insight, GoldenTree Asset Management's Steven Tananbaum and Kevin Feder described an opportunity to profit from Principal Financial Group's (PFG) exposure to a weakening commercial real estate market. Excerpts follow:

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