Since Barack Obama’s election, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 29.7% and the S&P 500 is up 33.7%. If you had invested $1,000 split between the two on October 31, 2008, your portfolio would be worth $1,317 today. Not a bad return for 17 months.
Health insurance stocks are generally up even more.
- Aetna +23.4%
- Cigna +54.2%
- Humana +33.5%
- United +44.9%
- Wellpoint +58.8%
If you had invested that $1,000 evenly among these five Big Insurance companies, your portfolio would be worth $1,430.
If you had waited until the market bottom, around March 13, 2009, your broad market bet would have been worth $1,678, but your Big Insurance investment would have been worth $2,166.
