Best's insurance stock indices.(Dec. 31, 2004 = 1,000.00)</p> <pre> Four Weeks Ended January 12, 2006 Percent Change Year Index Month/ to Year/ Close Month Date Year Best's Insurance Composite Index 1,177.49 1.73 1.62 19.17 Multi-Line Index (M) 1,095.70 5.31 2.74 9.92 Property/Casualty Index (PC) 1,091.53 1.11 1.95 11.40 Life/Health & HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, Index 1,328.72 0.47 0.75 33.53 Life Index (L) 1,251.22 1.54 2.42 28.91 Health & HMO Index (H) 1,410.36 -0.43 -0.65 38.40 Brokers & Agents Index (B&A) 1,115.10 1.15 2.01 18.04 NYSE Composite Index NYSE Composite Index Measures all common stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange and four subgroup indexes: Industrial, Transportation, Utility, and Finance. The index tracks the change in market value of NYSE common stocks, adjusted to eliminate the effects of new listings 8,008.09 2.46 3.28 13.93 </pre> <pre> Month/ Best's Closing Month % Top 5 Performers Ticker Index Price Change 1. Humana Inc HUM H 56.85 18.96% 2. Universal American Financial Corp UHCO H 17.97 18.22% 3. RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd RNR RNR Rock 'N Roll RNR Royal Naval Reserve RNR Ribonucleotide Reductase RNR Receive Not Ready (ITU-T; ISDN) RNR Research News Reporter RNR Rest and Relaxation RNR Registry of Nursing Research RNR Rest and Recreation PC 48.48 13.80% 4. Hanover Insurance Group Inc, The THG PC 44.61 13.37% 5. SCPIE SCPIE Southern California Physicians Insurance Exchange Holdings SKP PC 23.93 12.77% Bottom 5 Performers 1. Vesta Insurance Group Inc VTAI PC 0.85 -21.30% 2. White Mountains Insurance Group White Mountains Insurance Group is a holding company with business interests in property and casualty insurance, and reinsurance. The group owns the direct marketing insurer Esurance. External links
WTM PC 557.00 -6.31% 3. Safety Insurance Group Inc SAFT SAFT Safety SAFT Simple Asynchronous File Transfer SAFT Statistical Associating Fluid Theory SAFT Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique PC 40.00 -6.10% 4. Aetna Inc AET H 91.47 -6.09% 5. National Western Life Insurance Co NWIJA L 205.97 -5.73% </pre> <p>Indices by Segment (See bestreview.com for methodology and further details identifying the companies included in each index.) [GRAPHICS OMITTED] |
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