U.S. Life Insurers, Stocks Shook Off the 1918 Flu

March 4, 2020 by Allison Bell

Today’s world is much different from the world of 1918, and “past performance is no guarantee of future results.”

But one comforting takeaway from 1918 influenza flu pandemic statistics is that U.S. life insurers and major U.S. stocks got through the pandemic period in pretty good shape.

The 1918 flu pandemic may have been comparable, in some ways, to the Covid-19 pneumonia that has devastated Wuhan, in China, and is now started showing up in the United States.

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on March 2, 2020 by Allison Bell.