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Not many companies fortunes are as closely tied to the stock market as those in the insurance industry. When the market is climbing, insurers will often soar beyond the market, and will fall harder when the market declines. With the market upturn is now a good time to consider insurance companies?

The last thing you want to see is a letter from the government. It is never good news. Either you are being drafted, they want more money from you or you are under investigation. In the case of Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC), Canada’s largest insurance company, it was the latter.

Investing should be really simple, you buy low and sell high. The problem is that when the 'low' is available, stocks are about as attractive as the girl who did the 100 meter dash in the 90 meter gym. Has the five letter word 'S-T-O-C-K' become a four letter word yet...?

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:

A detailed look into first part of a stock analysis process using qualitative data: The Situational Analysis