The Allstate Company (ALL) provides a range of insurance products to clients, including auto, homeowner, and life insurance. A Fortune 100 company, with $133 billion in total assets, Allstate sells 13 major lines of insurance, including auto, property, life and commercial. In order to maintain margins in increasingly competitive insurance markets such as auto insurance--where major competitors Geico and Progressive (PGR) offer rate reductions to "switchers"--Allstate has pushed its bundled offerings, hoping to serve as a one-stop insurance provider to its customers. Bundled products may be especially important to build relationships, as "switchers" engender little customer loyalty; after all, customers who switch from one provider to another are likely to leave again.

The insurance business is synonymous with risk, and Allstate has managed its risk to varying degrees of success. The company is a market leader in the auto insurance sector, and it has increasingly pursued higher-risk, higher-profit drivers.

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