P&C Insurance

Today, Porter shares how pretty much anyone can earn 50%-plus annual returns, on average – and without suffering the kind of drawdowns most investors believe are inevitable. In fact, the strategy he demonstrates has volatility that’s much lower than the market’s.

Legal monopolies all have similar traits: They have dominant market share, they have enviable pricing power, and given a lack of alternatives for customers, these companies likely have highly predictable and mostly recurring revenue streams. All of that means big profit margins that flow to the bottom line.

This Bermuda-based P&C insurance company made a series of strategic moves over the last few years, with the same objective in mind – to transition the company away from volatile and lower-margin insurance and reinsurance underwriting toward higher margin specialty insurance… And it’s worked.

Most people think that P&C insurance companies will do worse as risks grow. But, as Porter explains today, those people have it backwards. Insurance companies price risk. As risks increase, prices rise. And that means profits rise too.

One of the largest and wealthiest communities in the U.S. has been largely destroyed, with over 15,000 structures burned across 63 square miles, an area roughly the size of Washington, D.C. In today’s Daily Journal, Porter examines how this disaster plays out across the property-and-casualty insurance industry.