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Roundtable Forum: Life Insurance

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 this

year's more positive market environment?

Mr. Berg: No doubt about it, they have outperformed. The market believes

that these