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Kash Pashootan Amtrust Financial Services AFSI-Q TOP PICK Sep 27, 2016

This is in the business/casualty insurance space. They also do specialty risk warranties. They have been on a fairly aggressive acquisition spree. They have been buying smaller insurers, cutting costs and using their scale to expand. That acquisition spree is done, and they are now starting to digest. He expects the acquisitions to become accretive by 2017. Trading at around 9X PE. Dividend yield of 2.59%.

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