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Kash Pashootan ProAssurance Corp PRA-N PAST TOP PICK Feb 11, 2016

(Top Pick Feb 27/15, Up 10.68%) They have been busy doing acquisitions over the last few years. They are now done in their spending phase and now those are giving them new clients to cross sell products to. 2.6% dividend.

$48.520

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TOP PICK

This is in the medical liability space. With Obama care, we are seeing more and more Americans being able to access healthcare. As a result, there is a need to hire more doctors, nurses and healthcare workers, which need to be insured. This company stands to benefit from that as we continue to unfold the early days of Obama care. Have done a few acquisitions over the last few years, which is part of why their stock price has been flat. Those acquisitions now are starting to play out which significantly expanded their geographic footprints. Also, gross premiums written have started to increase significantly. Dividend yield of 2.75%.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Feb 27/15. Up 2.95%.) Medical liability insurance is only going to go up. With healthcare being accessible to more and more Americans, you need more medical professionals and more premiums are being written. This company has been busy doing acquisitions which, has expanded their geographical footprint across the US as well as increasing the amount of premiums being written.

COMMENT

This is in the medical liability space, which he feels has more upside than the lifecos. With Obama care coming online, more Americans are accessing healthcare, more professionals need to be hired and more policies need to be written. In the last few years, this company has been busy doing acquisitions which are going to become accretive to earnings.

TOP PICK

Medical liability space. With Obamacare, there are more and more people accessing healthcare. They are now digesting previous acquisitions which are accretive to earnings. They are cross selling products. You get paid a great dividend and he sees stock price appreciation. You have to be looking more than one year out.

PAST TOP PICK

(Top Pick Feb 27/15, Up 20.63%) When it runs up the way this one did, you can’t expect the same returns in the future, perhaps you even get a pull back.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Feb 27/15. Up 15.5%.) Involved in medical liability, so with Obama Care and more and more Americans accessing healthcare, there is growth in this space, and the need to ensure medical professionals. Have been doing acquisitions over the last year, and feels they are done with spending money and integration. Likes the cross selling opportunities and the expansion of their geographical footprint. A good entry point.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Sept 17/15. Up 10.5%.) This is in the medical liability space. He got into the name because of Obama care, where more and more Americans were able to access healthcare and more and more health professionals needed to be insured. The company went on a strategic but aggressive acquisition spree, and expanded their geographical footprint across the US. It also gave them a lot of customers where they could cross-sell products to. Sold his holdings and went into another insurer. (See Top Picks.)

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Feb 27/15. Up 2.79%.) (BNN Showed “Oct 29/15” in error, so percentages may not be accurate.) Medical liability insurance. This had been busy doing acquisitions. He sold his holdings.