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		<title><![CDATA[Allstate, Loews Cutting Exposure to Municipals: What Do They Know?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, savvy Allstate CEO Thomas Wilson announced that the insurer had cut back its municipal bond holdings by more than 8 percent in the third quarter. Then Loews, owner of business insurer CNA Financial, and Guardian Life, told Bloomberg they too had been selling munis.   ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Allstate Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. Our first question comes from Jay Gelb from Barclays. Your question please. Jay Gelb &#8211; Barclays Thanks. Good morning. Looking at the underlying combined ratio for the entire property casualty business, looks like it will be up around two points year-over-year 2009 versus 2008 for...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Allstate Q3: Earnings In-Line, Benefits from Fewer Catastrophes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zacks.com submits:   Allstate Corporation&#8217;s ALL third quarter operating earnings of 99 cents per share were in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This is in stark contrast to the operating loss of 35 cents in the year-ago quarter. Results for the quarter benefited primarily from a milder catastrophe...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Free the Oppressed Allstate Insurance Agents!]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American companies have made an art form out of cutting employee salaries while making them work longer and harder. Insurers are not immune. A recent survey by Claims magazine showed that "stunted wages, heftier workloads and shriveling benefits" continue to plague its members.    But occasionally these Les...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Advertising Age reports  General Motors' Mark LaNeve will land at Allstate. Wonder if the Allstate  minority advertising agencies  will be affected in the long run. Ad Age says LaNeve has a challenge ahead because "the insurer was recently ranked ‘about average' by customers…" Um, GM just...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[On Zebras and Portfolio Managers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Raymond James strategist Jeffrey Saut's latest essay: Zebras have the same problem as institutional portfolio managers. First, both seek profits. For portfolio managers, above average performance; for zebras, fresh grass. Secondly, both dislike risk. Portfolio managers can get fired; zebras can get eaten by lions. Third, both move...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Allstate: Buy on the Dips]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Armistead submits: Multi-line insurer Allstate ALL was recently downgraded by Goldman Sachs, from neutral to sell. The analyst cited risk of loss of market share for Auto, low ROE on Homeowners, and uncertainty about the Life operation. The shares naturally gave up a few points on the news, so...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Allstate Catastrophe Losses: Bad Luck or Bad Judgment?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allstate, the largest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the country, didn't do terribly well in second quarter earnings. Operating income per share, the way insurers are measured by Wall Street, was only 55 cents, less than half the year ago number, and its shares were off in trading...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Allstate Corporation Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Allstate Corporation ALL   Q2 2009 Earnings Call   August 6, 2009 9:00 am ET]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Allstate Corporation Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator  Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Jay Gelb - Barclays Capital Jay Gelb - Barclays Capital What do you feel is a reasonable return on equity expectation for Allstate in the current environment.  Thomas Wilson  We look at the...]]></description>
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