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Market Leader with Strong Financial Performance: <a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/intact-financial-corp">Intact Financial </a>is the largest provider of property and casualty (P&amp;C) insurance in Canada and a leading provider of global specialty insurance. The company has a track record of strong financial performance, including consistent dividend increases and a stated objective to outperform the industry's return on equity (ROE) by at least 500 basis points annually.</li>
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Strategic Growth through Acquisitions: A key component of Intact's strategy is growth through acquisitions, having successfully completed 19 P&amp;C acquisitions since 1988. This strategy has allowed the company to expand its market reach, diversify its revenue streams, and achieve significant scale advantages.</li>
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Focus on Technology and Innovation: Intact is actively investing in technology and innovation to gain a competitive edge. The company utilizes data analytics and AI-driven pricing models to enhance underwriting accuracy, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the customer experience.</li>
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Market Leader with Strong Financial Performance: Intact Financial is the largest provider of property and casualty (P&amp;C) insurance in Canada and a leading provider of global specialty insurance. The company has a track record of strong financial performance, including consistent dividend increases and a stated objective to outperform the industry's return on equity (ROE) by at least 500 basis points annually.
  
Strategic Growth through Acquisitions: A key component of Intact's strategy is growth through acquisitions, having successfully completed 19 P&amp;C acquisitions since 1988. This strategy has allowed the company to expand its market reach, diversify its revenue streams, and achieve significant scale advantages.
  
Focus on Technology and Innovation: Intact is actively investing in technology and innovation to gain a competitive edge. The company utilizes data analytics and AI-driven pricing models to enhance underwriting accuracy, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the customer experience.
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Primer: Intact Financial  (IFC CN) - Sep 2025

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>We continue to believe that a bearish intermediate-term outlook is appropriate as long as the YTD downtrends remain intact on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US), MSCI ACWI ex-US (ACWX-US), and EAFE (EFA-US).</li>
<li>We would turn bullish only on reversals of those downtrends. With that said, a bear market rally has officially begun, something that we have discussed since our Sept.29 Int'l Compass</li>
<li>We expect to see rallies to their respective YTD downtrends (ACWX, EFA, etc.). We highlight buys that are likely to outperform on this bear market rally.</li>
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We continue to believe that a bearish intermediate-term outlook is appropriate as long as the YTD downtrends remain intact on MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US), MSCI ACWI ex-US (ACWX-US), and EAFE (EFA-US).
We would turn bullish only on reversals of those downtrends. With that said, a bear market rally has officially begun, something that we have discussed since our Sept.29 Int'l Compass
We expect to see rallies to their respective YTD downtrends (ACWX, EFA, etc.). We highlight buys that are likely to outperform on this bear market rally.


Bear Market Rally in Progress as DXY, Global Sovereign 10-Yr Yields Fall; Buy Ideas Within Leaders

European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

UK insurer <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/rsa-insurance-group-plc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1055:1" rel="noopener">Rsa Insurance (RSA LN)</a> soared 45% on 5 November and led the Stoxx 600 gains on rumors of takeover. RSA later published a <a href="https://www.rsagroup.com/media/4163/rsa-insurance-group-plc-statement-regarding-proposal.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> regarding the proposal and a <a href="https://www.rsagroup.com/media/4164/rsa-insurance-group-plc-further-statement-regarding-proposal.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further statement</a>. Under the proposal, Intact would pay c. £3.0 bn and Tryg would pay c. £4.2 bn. RSA said that its Board "would be minded to recommend the proposal".
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693p per share in total.
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<li>The proposed consideration represents 15.9x P/Forward EPS, 1.75x on RSA's H1 reported BVPS, 1.74x P/Next FY BVPS, 2.1x RSA's net tangible asset value. </li>
<li>On a Forward P/E basis, the implied valuation is 682p (15.4x) vs an offered consideration of 693p (including interim dividend).</li>
<li>A generous exit price for RSA's shareholders.</li>
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RSA is positioned in attractive P&amp;C markets like Canada and Scandinavia where greenfield entry strategies would be difficult to pursue, and its scale position in the UK gives rise to potential synergies.
At last closing price, the deal offers an interesting gross spread of 6.35% for a deal that although carries execution risk, it is one everybody seems happy with. Recommendation is LONG RSA.

UK insurer Rsa Insurance (RSA LN) soared 45% on 5 November and led the Stoxx 600 gains on rumors of takeover. RSA later published a statement regarding the proposal and a further statement. Under the proposal, Intact would pay c. £3.0 bn and Tryg would pay c. £4.2 bn. RSA said that its Board "would be minded to recommend the proposal".


693p per share in total.

The proposed consideration represents 15.9x P/Forward EPS, 1.75x on RSA's H1 reported BVPS, 1.74x P/Next FY BVPS, 2.1x RSA's net tangible asset value. 
On a Forward P/E basis, the implied valuation is 682p (15.4x) vs an offered consideration of 693p (including interim dividend).
A generous exit price for RSA's shareholders.

RSA is positioned in attractive P&amp;C markets like Canada and Scandinavia where greenfield entry strategies would be difficult to pursue, and its scale position in the UK gives rise to potential synergies.
At last closing price, the deal offers an interesting gross spread of 6.35% for a deal that although carries execution risk, it is one everybody seems happy with. Recommendation is LONG RSA.

RSA - Intact Financial & Tryg: Generous Break-Up Takeover Proposal

Canada

Intact Financial Corporation provides property and casualty insurance in Canada.  The Company's  business is organized into personal and commercial product lines.  Intact's principal insurance products are home, automobile and business.

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Intact Financial (IFC CN)

Primer: Intact Financial (IFC CN) - Sep 2025

Market Leader with Strong Financial Performance: Intact Financial is the largest provider of property and casualty (P&C) insurance in...

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Bear Market Rally in Progress as DXY, Global Sovereign 10-Yr Yields Fall; Buy Ideas Within Leaders

Bear Market Rally in Progress as $DXY, Global Sovereign 10-Year Yields Decline. Italy FTSE MIB with a bullish YTD downtrend reversal, Switzerland...

Vermilion Research

RSA - Intact Financial & Tryg: Generous Break-Up Takeover Proposal

At last closing price, the deal offers an interesting gross spread of 6.35% for a deal that although carries execution risk, it is one everybody...

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

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