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Brett Horn, CFA
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Travelers' Auto Business Continues to Struggle in 2Q

Travelers reported a fairly soft second quarter. While underlying results in commercial lines remain largely stable, higher catastrophe losses and underwriting issues in the personal auto line led to a significant year-over-year compression in profitability. This causes the combined ratio for the quarter to increase to 96.7% from 93.1% last year. Despite these issues, annualized ROE for the quarter came in at 10%, slightly above our estimate of the cost of capital and a level that supports our n...
Underlying
Travelers Companies Inc.

Travelers Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations and individuals. The company's segments include: Business Insurance, which provides property and casualty insurance and insurance-related services; Bond and Specialty Insurance, which provides surety, fidelity, management liability, professional liability, and other property and casualty coverages and related risk management services, and certain specialty insurance products; and Personal Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance covering individuals' personal risks.

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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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Brett Horn, CFA

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