Report
Henry Heathfield
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Turn in the Underwriting Cycle and Pricing to Affect Direct Line's Profitability

The U.K. motor insurance market is one of the most dynamic insurance markets in Europe. However, this isn’t always positive. We think the evolution of this market has led to greater price transparency, lower customer retention and persistency. All this has combined to result in a price pressured market consisting of, in our opinion, businesses that are generally quite low quality and lacking economic moats. We're raising our fair value estimate slightly for no-moat Direct Line and no-moat Admira...
Underlying
Direct Line Insurance Group Plc

Direct Line Insurance Group is a personal and small business general insurer in the U.K. Co.'s principal activity is managing its investments in subsidiaries, providing loans to those subsidiaries, raising funds, and the receipt and payment of dividends. Co.'s segments are Motor, which consists of personal motor insurance together with the associated legal protection cover; Home, which consists of home insurance together with associated legal protection cover; Rescue and other personal lines, which consists of rescue products, and other personal lines insurance, including travel, pet and creditor; and Commercial, which consists of commercial insurance for small and medium-size entities.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Henry Heathfield

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