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Vermilion Compass: Weekly Equity Strategy

Upgrading Real Estate, Transportation to Market Weight

Ongoing developments have been almost exclusively of the risk-on variety ever since we discussed that risk/reward favored buyers in late-October (10/24/23 and 10/31/23 Compass reports). The latest risk-on developments include the Russell 2000 (IWM) and DJI breaking above resistances of $180 and 35,650, respectively, to go along with bullish 9-month RS reversals for small-, mid-, and micro-caps. Breadth improvement and broadening participation has been something we started discussing in our 10/17/23 Compass, and was a big reason why we recommended buying the IWM when it was testing $162-$163 support (10/31/23 Compass). We remain bullish, and we continue to expect a rally into year-end and beyond.

Small-, Mid-, and Micro-Caps With Bullish RS Reversals as S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite Take a Pause. As noted above, the Russell 2000 (IWM) and DJI blasted through their respective resistance levels, as mega-cap growth rests. It is clear tha
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Brighthouse Financial Inc.

Brighthouse Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of annuity products and life insurance products. The company has three segments: annuities, which consists of variable, fixed, index-linked and income annuities designed to address contract holders' needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer and income security; life, which consists of insurance products and services, including term, universal, whole and variable life products designed to address policyholders' needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer; and run-off, which consists of products no longer actively sold and which are separately managed.

Citizens Inc. Cl A

Citizens is an insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries, the company provides insurance products. The company's main insurance operations include: U.S. Dollar-denominated ordinary whole life insurance and endowment policies mainly sold to foreign residents, located principally in Latin America and the Pacific Rim; ordinary whole life insurance policies to middle income households focused on the Midwest, Mountain West and southern U.S.; and final expense and limited liability property policies to middle and lower income households in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. The company has two segments: Life Insurance and Home Service Insurance. The company also has Other Non-Insurance Operations.

CNO Financial Group Inc.

CNO Financial Group is a holding company for a group of insurance companies. The company's Bankers Life segment underwrites, markets and distributes Medicare supplement insurance, interest-sensitive life insurance, life insurance, fixed annuities and long-term care insurance products. The company's Washington National segment underwrites, markets and distributes supplemental health and life insurance to middle-income consumers at home and at the worksite. The company's Colonial Penn segment markets primarily graded benefit and simplified issue life insurance directly to customers in the senior middle-income market through television advertising, direct mail, the internet and telemarketing.

Lincoln National Corporation

Lincoln National operates multiple insurance and retirement businesses through its subsidiary companies. The company provides products and services through four segments as follows: Annuities, which provides tax-deferred investment growth and lifetime income opportunities for its clients by providing variable annuities, fixed annuities and indexed variable annuities; Retirement Plan Services, which provides employers with retirement plan products and services, primarily in the defined contribution retirement plan marketplace; Life Insurance, which focuses on the creation and protection of wealth for its clients; and Group Protection, which provides group non-medical insurance products.

Primerica Inc.

Primerica, through its subsidiaries, provides financial products to middle-income households in the United States and Canada with licensed sales representatives. The company's segments are: Term Life Insurance, which provides a guaranteed death benefit if the insured dies during the fixed coverage period of an in-force policy; Investment and Savings Products, which distributes and sells to its clients a variety of mutual funds, managed investments, variable, index-linked, and fixed annuities, fixed indexed annuities and segregated funds; and Other Distributed Product, which distributes prepaid legal services, auto and homeowners' insurance referrals, and home automation solutions.

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Our process begins by organizing all actively traded stocks into coherent sectors, then into logical industry groups. We then apply our proprietary relative strength tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sectors or groups, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. Vermilion offers U.S. and global equity market research products. Vermilion’s research team, which has received numerous awards and accolades, has a combined 70 year of experience in the analysis of investment securities.

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