$MUV2 (+0.26%) - $SREN (+0.6%) - $HNR1 (+1.13%) - $BRO (+0.57%)

I am currently in my final year of training as an insurance and financial investment specialist, but I work as an independent insurance broker.

In this respect, it is "natural" for me to deal intensively with listed insurance companies.

Today I bought shares in Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re) for the first time. $MUV2 (+0.26%) for the first time.

I also bought Swiss Re $SREN (+0.6%) and Hannover Re $HNR1 (+1.13%) on my watch list.

A functioning primary insurance market would be inconceivable without reinsurance.

I am also keeping an eye on the Allianz share $ALV (+0.61%) - I would see a price level below € 300 as an interesting entry opportunity.

Brown & Brown, $BRO (+0.57%) a company also active in the insurance business, is potentially attractive for me from a price below USD 88-90.

What are your opinions on insurance in your portfolio and/or in everyday life, apart from the typical weird sales representatives who only want to sell insurance etc.?

If Warren Buffett's Berkshire is already making a lot of money with insurance, it can't hurt me either 😁

My $ORI (+0.37%) I started building up my position in September 2021, until then I had only $ALV (+0.61%) and $AFL (+0.55%) in the portfolio. In the meantime $TRV (+0.24%) and recently also $AMP (+1.02%)
$BRO (+0.57%) have landed in the Scalable portfolio, in which I also invest in the "Ultimate Homer ETF" Trade Republic Depot via a savings plan, as well as $MUV2 (+0.26%)
$HNR1 (+1.13%)
$PGR (+0.49%)
$ALL (+0.21%)
$AJG (+0.04%)
$TLX (+0.78%)
$8766 (+1.47%) 😁

Which insurance companies are you with?

Old Republic balance sheet

Benchmark

Amazing that with a dividend aristocrat you could keep up well with the ETFs over the last 5 years 💪😁

Benchmark vs competition

Dear Community,

I need your help and opinions, please. I am currently making or would like to make small changes to my portfolio.

There is a lot of overlap in the various ETFs (MSCI World, ACWI, S&P 500, ) as well as my individual stocks, as they are included as a percentage of the largest positions in the ETFs.

I would like to have two stocks namely $BRO (+0.57%) and $RSG (-0.07%) to my portfolio and sell or restructure part of the ETfs.

P.S. I am 20 years old and would nevertheless like to invest the majority of my assets in a broadly diversified way, but without having too much weighting in ETFs in order to avoid losing any returns.

Thank you very much in advance.

The most important results for the coming week:

Monday

• Brown & Brown ($BRO (+0.57%) ) and Logitech International SA ($LOGN (+1.7%) ) publish their quarterly results.

Tuesday

• Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ (+0.36%) ), Procter & Gamble ($PG (+0.32%) ), Netflix ($NFLX (+1.58%) ), Verizon Communications ($VZ (+0.21%) ), United Airlines ($UAL (+1.25%) ), General Electric ($GE (+2.56%) ) and 3M ($MMM (+1.44%) ) announce their quarterly results will be announced.

Wednesday

• Tesla ($TSLA (-0.32%) ), IBM ($IBM (-0.38%) ), AT&T ($T (-0.03%) ) and Progressive ($PGR (+0.49%) ) report their quarterly results. S&P publishes the preliminary U.S. Services PMI (January). S&P publishes the preliminary U.S. Manufacturing PMI (January).

Thursday

• Visa ($V (+1%) ), Intel ($INTC (+1.49%) ), T-Mobile ($TMUS (+1.56%) ) and Comcast Corp ($CMCSA (+0.5%) ) present their quarterly results results. Initial jobless claims (week ending January 20). US GDP. New home sales (December).

Friday

• American Express ($AXP (+2.61%) ), Colgate-Palmolive ($CL (+0.6%) ) and Norfolk Southern Corp ($NSC (+0%) ) publish their quarterly results. Sale of "floating homes" (December). Price index for personal consumption expenditures (PCE).

The most important dates for the coming week:

Monday

• Earnings reports from Cadence Design Systems Inc. ($CDNS (+2.13%) ), Brown & Brown Inc .. ($BRO (+0.57%) ), Alexandria Real Estate Equities ($ARE (-1.03%) ) and W.R. Berkley Corp. ($WRB (-0.34%) ).

Tuesday

• Earnings reports from Microsoft ($MSFT (+0.3%) ), Alphabet Inc. ($GOOGL (+0.44%) ), Visa ($V (+1%) ), The Coca-Cola Company ($KO (+0.83%) ) & the Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index.

Wednesday:

• Earnings reports from Meta Platforms ($META (+0.39%) ), Thermo Fisher Scientific ($TMO (-0.16%) ), T-Mobile US ($TMUS (+1.56%) ), IBM ($IBM (-0.38%) ) and others, as well as data on New Home Sales.

Thursday:

• Earnings reports from Amazon ($AMZN (+0.48%) ), Mastercard ($MA (+0.73%) ), Intel Corporation ($INTC (+1.49%) ) and others. Important economic events such as the publication of the U.S. gross domestic product for the third
  quarter
  2023, data on inventories and the Kansas City Manufacturing Index.

Friday:

• Earnings reports from ExxonMobil ($XOM (-1.2%) ), Chevron ($CVX (-1.01%) ), AbbVie ($ABBV (-0.19%) ) and others. Key economic data include the PCE Price Index, income and expenditure and the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index - Final Reading.

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As of today, among others, ASML ($ASME (+0.03%)), Brown & Brown ($BTW (+0.57%)), CrossAmerican Partners ($CAPL), Diana Shipping ($DSZ (-2.37%)), Luby's ($LUB), Metro City Bank ($MCBS (+0.41%)), MarketAxess ($MWI (-0.77%)), Minerals Technologies Inc. ($MNK (+0.63%)), Northern Technologies International Corp. ($NTIC), Del Taco ($22L) and VSE Corp. ($VSEC (+2.3%)) traded ex-dividend.

𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀𝘇𝗮𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗻 📈

Things are really busy again, so here are the main companies reporting their numbers today. Today BP ($BPE5 (+0.45%)), HelloFresh ($HFG (-1.77%)), IDEXX Laboratories ($IX1 (+0.59%)), OSRAM ($OSR), Pfizer ($PFE (+0.11%)), Prudential Financial ($PLL (+0.3%)), Ralph Lauren Corp. ($PRL (+0.91%)), Samsung SDI ($XSDG (-2.93%)), The Western Union Company ($W3U (+0.35%)), T-Mobile US ($TM5 (+1.56%)), Under Armour ($U9R (+1.14%)) and Yamaha Corp. ($YHA (+1.69%)) presented their figures.

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 🏛️

Wind Energy - So far in 2021, 345 wind turbines with a total capacity of 1.4 gigawatts have been connected to the grid. Compared to the same period last year, this is an increase of over 50%. Currently, the same number of turbines have already been erected in the current year 2021 as in the entire previous year. According to the president of the German Wind Energy Association, it is possible to reach the total capacity of 2 gigawatts of commissioned plants this year.

HelloFresh ($HFG (-1.77%)) - HelloFresh has raised its revenue forecast to thanks to strong growth in the current fiscal year up to and including October another time. Core revenue increased from €970 million to €1.416 billion compared to the same period last year. This was due to strong customer growth and a continued high order rate, as well as high average order values. Adjusted operating profit margin before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization is forecast to be between 8.25 and 10.25 percent.

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Squid Game - The coin with the acronym SQUID, which alludes to the unprecedentedly successful Netflix series Squid Game, shocked the crypto scene yesterday. The coin launched last Thursday at a starting price of $0.01. Within 4 days, the price increased by an incredible 380,000.00% to $38 on Monday morning. After further growth, the price rose to $89 on the same day. However, the journey was not to end here. Within 3 hours, events rolled over. The price of SQUID grew to an incredible $2,861.80 and just 5 minutes later the coin crashed by 99.99% to $0.0007926.

Additionally, the website that promoted the coin is no longer online. It is now also known that many holders of SQUID were no longer able to sell their positions from a certain point, so they could only watch idly. It is therefore a so-called rug-pull, i.e. that the developers of the project have sold it and have gone underground with the profits. In addition, it is now also clear that there are no connections to Netflix or other representatives of the series.

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