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Assessing insurance deals

Insurance industry mergers and acquisitions skyrocketed during the bull market of the late 1990s but created little shareholder value. Some deals, however, were more successful than others.

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Investors preferred deals for growth over those chasing cost synergies and acquisitions of divisions over purchases of companies with broad portfolios.


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