Market Volatility Could Help Life Insurers, Impede M&As.The volatility of the stock market could benefit life insurers but will have little effect on property/casualty insurers and health maintenance organizations, except when it comes to acquisitions, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. investment analysts. Several insurers have seen their shares perform much better as some of the luster has worn off the technology sector, according to a report by Salomon Noun 1. Salomon - American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785) Haym Salomon Smith Barney Smith Barney is a division of Citigroup Global Capital Markets Inc., a global, full-service financial firm, that provides brokerage, investment banking and asset management services to corporations, governments and individuals around the world. . Maitland Lammert, an analyst for the St. Louis-based financial-services firm Edward Jones Edward, Eddie, or Ed Jones is the name of: Edward Jones:
v. 1. To lower in spirits; deject. 2. To cause to drop or sink; lower. 3. To press down. 4. To lessen the activity or force of something. margins of insurers' indexed-annuity products. Temporarily, the impact has been to increase cash flow into some other sectors that were being ignored last year, Lammert said. "Right now, we are just seeing a lot of volatility back and forth, back and forth," she said. "In the second and third quarters, if we see a continued pressure on markets and a continued sustained decline, it would impact these companies and their growth would slow." |
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