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The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Insurance Index (IAK) has gained 12.7% year to date.
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The insurance index is now trading at multi-year lows, as it battles overhead resistance at the 150 level.
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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, PRU makes up 8.00% of the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Insurance Index Fund ETF ( AMEX: IAK) which is trading higher by about 0.4% on the day Thursday.
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There is even an insurance claims processor in the Sandy index.
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Tendai Musikavanhu, president of Old Mutual Global Index Trackers, part of the Old Mutual investment and insurance banking family, says there are too many variables at play to know for sure.
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Traders were using a new kind of hedging strategy called portfolio insurance, which involved linking stock prices to the futures index.
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For example, financials (including banks, insurance and diversified financials) account for 35.4% of MSCI China index, though they make up just 12.6% of the national GDP.
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The good news for bulls is that in the event of a pullback, we would not expect a decline to be exacerbated by panic selling, since those that have recently accumulated stocks have purchased index or exchange-traded fund (ETF) puts, or VIX calls, as insurance against a correction .
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Put aside for the moment the impossibility of concocting a true price index the Consumer Price Index, for example, allocates less than 1% of the cost of living to health insurance!
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The Economist has compiled a credit-crunch index, comprising a number of measures on everything from bank lending to the cost of buying insurance against default for banks, firms and sovereigns in the euro zone.
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