Best insurance stocks

Arch Capital is a Bermuda insurer and reinsurer with a sharpshooter's reputation: it enters and exits each business line by the price of risk, married to none.

Cincinnati Financial is the property insurer of quiet America: commercial and home policies sold only through local independent agents, with whom it cultivates decades-long relationships.

Allstate is one of America's largest auto and home insurers — the 'good hands' of its slogan.

The Hartford is a classic American insurer with two centuries of history: property-casualty coverage for small businesses — its most profitable specialty — plus employee benefits and funds.

Chubb is one of the world's largest property and casualty insurers (home, business, accident), with a global footprint and a focus on high-end clients.

Progressive is the most profitable U.S.

Travelers is one of America's big property-casualty insurers: it covers businesses, homes and cars against fire, accidents and catastrophes.

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Assurant is the insurer of connected and rented things: it protects phones for carriers, appliances for retailers and mortgaged homes for banks when the owner stops insuring them.

Everest Group is one of the world's big reinsurers, from Bermuda: it takes on the risks insurers don't want to carry alone — hurricanes, earthquakes, giant corporate policies — charging premiums that rise when the world gets scary.