Financial Services >> Sector Roundtables >> July 21, 2003
ERIC N. BERG is Lehman Brothers' Senior Life Insurance Analyst. Prior to
joining Lehman in the fall of 1999, he spent four years at CIBC
Oppenheimer, where he also was the Life Insurance Analyst and where for
three consecutive years he was a member of the Institutional Investor
All Star team. Prior to working at Oppenheimer, he was the property-
casualty analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co. And prior to working at Bear, he
spent almost 10 years as a writer and editor at The New York Times,
where he covered the insurance industry. A CPA with particular interest
in financial reporting by financial institutions, Mr. Berg earned his
undergraduate degree from The Wharton School and his MBA from Stanford
Business School. Profile
TWST: Eric, how have the life insurance stocks done so far in thisyear's more positive market environment?
Mr. Berg: No doubt about it, they have outperformed. The market believes
that these