SPDR S&P Insurance ETF (KIE-N)

Look at the chart. One of the leading ETFs over the last couple of years, and that really chronicles the whole fortunes of the whole insurance industry.

In his ETF long/short fund, financials are his second-biggest weighting. XLF includes BRK.B, Visa, JPM, a few regional banks, asset management companies, P&C companies. All are performing well right now. Only made a new high in the last year, start of a new, longer-term bull market.

KIE also looks really good, the insurers. KCE includes asset managers and investment banks, also good.

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Financials have been slower to recover, only gaining strength in September-October. Still have a long way to go. If you believe we had a generational low in long-term interest rates, and we're just entering a reflationary cycle, insurance companies benefit as assets go up in price. Higher rates are really good. Also interesting are KRE and KBE. Most interesting is IAI, making new highs. As a group, financials have underperformed since 2007, so they should now have a tailwind in this environment.

Today, everything in financials rallied, including the lifecos. Rising rates benefit them. Look at this to give you a basket of insurance companies. Today it broke new highs.