Financial Services >> Sector Roundtables >> September 3, 2001
MICHELLE A. GIORDANO, Vice President, is the Senior Life Insurance
Analyst in the Equity Research Group of J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc.
Prior to this assignment, she was responsible for joint coverage of the
property/casualty industry and the life insurance industry for the firm.
Ms. Giordano graduated from New York University's Stern School of
Business with a BS in Finance and Accounting and an MBA in Finance. She
is presently the Treasurer of the Association of Insurance and Financial
Analysts. Ms. Giordano has been ranked by Institutional Investor as a
runner-up in October 2000 and as the 'Next Generation' analyst for the
life insurance industry in 1997, and has been ranked in the Wall Street
Journal All-Star Analyst Survey for stock picking and for earnings
estimate accuracy. Profile
COLIN W. DEVINE is a Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney Inc.,
where he is responsible for providing equity research coverage on a
diverse group of North American life insurance companies. He was
formerly a Director in Standard & Poor's Insurance Ratings group where
he covered a variety of life and property casualty insurers and had been
associated with a major Canadian life insurer where he was involved in
investment and risk management, as well as a number of corporate
development initiatives. Mr. Devine was ranked number one in the Life
Insurance Equity Research team and was also named to Institutional
Investor's 2000 All America Research team in the stock picking category.
A Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Management Accountant, he
holds an MBA in Finance from York University and a BS in Biology from
the University of Guelph. Profile
ALFRED M. CAPRA is the Senior Life Insurance Analyst at Oppenheimer &
Co. Inc. Prior to joining Oppenheimer in December 2003, he spent nearly
four years at Putnam Lovell NBF, a financial services boutique, where he
lead the firm's life insurance research effort and also served as Head
of Research. In 2001, Mr. Capra was selected as StarMine's top analyst
in stock picking performance within the life insurance industry. Prior
to joining Putnam Lovell, Mr. Capra was associated with Keefe, Bruyette
& Woods, Inc., and Wasserstein Perella, where he was responsible for
covering the life insurance industry. Prior to joining Wasserstein in
1996, Mr. Capra was part of the top ranked insurance research team at
Salomon Brothers, where he began his career in 1990. Profile
annuity stocks in 2001 year to date that are the subject of our
discussion today?
Mr. Devine: I cover North American life
