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Ravi Reddy
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Transfer of Analyst Coverage; Tower’s FVE Unchanged

We transfer analyst coverage of Tower. Our NZD 1.30 per share fair value estimate is unchanged, as are our no-moat and very high uncertainty ratings. Tower is in play with two bidders emerging in February 2017, Canadian financial group Fairfax Financial and Suncorp Group. The board continues to assess the proposals, but from a shareholder's view, the NZD 1.30 per share cash offer from Suncorp is superior to Fairfax Financial's NZD 1.17 cash offer. To date, Fairfax Financial has not come back wit...
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Tower Ltd.

Tower is engaged in the provision of general insurance. Co. and its subsidiaries primarily operate in New Zealand with some of its operations based in the Pacific Islands region. Co. and its subsidiaries' operating segments are New Zealand General Insurance and Pacific Genral Insurance. The New Zealand General Insurance segment comprised general insurance business written in New Zealnd. The Pacific Genral Insurance segment includes genral insurance business with customers in the Pacific Islands written by TOWER Insurance subsidiaries and branch operations.

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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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Ravi Reddy

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