The Performance of Nordic Insurance Stocks -A perspective from the abnormal return and the equity beta
Abstract: The paper examined two important components in the CAPM model, Jensen’s alpha and equity beta, on the Nordic Insurance Index from 2003 to 2011. We found that the Insurance stocks in the Nordic markets provided abnormal returns of 15.39% annually during the first study period 2003-2005, whereas no abnormal return was found for the subsequent periods and it was also the case for the entire