Aviva Life Insurance Company India is more India than Aviva. Although it is listed as a joint venture between UK insurance giant Aviva and India-based Dabur, the company's Indian parent -- which owns a collection of health care, personal care, and food concerns -- holds 74% of the company. Aviva Life Insurance Company India (Aviva India) offers a variety of life insurance and investment products under the Aviva brand name, as well as financial planning services. It sells its products through a network of some 225 branch locations and a direct sales force. It also distributes its products through partnerships with Indian bank branches.

Zurich in North America is a part of Zurich Financial Services Group (Zurich), an insurance-based financial services provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and Europe as well as in Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets. Founded in 1872, the Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and employs approximately 60,000 people serving customers in more than 180 countries, including more than 9,500 employees in North America.

Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan offers life insurance and commercial and personal property/casualty insurance, including homeowners, farm owners, workers' compensation, and automobile coverage. Its life insurance products include traditional policies and annuities. A subsidiary of the Michigan Farm Bureau, the company also sells Blue Cross and Blue Shield health policies, long-term care insurance, retirement products, and financial planning services. The company was founded in 1949 to serve the farming community and operates exclusively in the state of Michigan. Its subsidiaries, Farm Bureau Mutual, Farm Bureau Life, and Farm Bureau General, have claims offices and over 400 independent agents in the state.

Oxford Life Insurance, which was founded in 1965, is a subsidiary of AMERCO, the owner of U-Haul International. Oxford Life Insurance company offers individual life insurance, annuities, and other types of policies targeted to middle income seniors under its own name and through its subsidiaries. Its Christian Fidelity Life Insurance subsidiary focuses on sales of Medicare supplement and funeral insurance to seniors in Arizona, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Subsidiary North American Insurance specializes in third-party administration for Medicare supplement policy holders across the US.

Prudential plc provides retail financial services in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It offers savings, protection, investment, and unit-linked products; and manages retail assets investing in equities, fixed income, and structured products, as well as institutional and internal assets investing in equities, fixed income, property, and private equity. The company also provides retirement savings and income solutions, variable annuities, fixed and fixed index annuities, term and permanent life insurance, and institutional products, as well as asset management and retail brokerage services. In addition, it offers retail products, such as individual annuities, income drawdown, individual and corporate pensions, with-profits and unit-linked bonds, lifetime mortgages, and health insurance products; and wholesale products, including bulk annuities and annuity back-books. Further, Prudential plc manages funds for retail businesses, including open ended investment companies and unit trusts, investment trusts, and individual savings accounts; and institutional businesses, which include segregated equity and fixed interest, pooled pension funds, and structured and private finance. Prudential plc offers its products through independent broker-dealers, independent agents, banks, regional broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, and financial advisers, as well as directly to customers through telephone, Internet, and mail. It has strategic partnerships with China International Trust and Investment Corporation Group, ICICI Bank, and Bank of China International. Prudential plc was founded in 1848 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Canada Life Financial is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco, which is itself controlled by the Power Corporation of Canada. Canada Life Financial is the parent of Canada Life Assurance which offers both group and individual policies for life, critical illness, creditor, and disability insurance as well as reinsurance. Canada Life Assurance also provides annuities, pension plans, trusts, and other investment products, along with financial and investment management. In addition to serving customers in Canada, the company does business in Germany, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the UK, and the US.

Catlin Group Limited is an international specialist property and casualty insurer and reinsurer, writing more than 30 classes of business. Catlin operates four underwriting platforms - the Catlin Syndicate at Lloyd's, Catlin Bermuda, Catlin UK and Catlin US - as well as a network of international offices. Our structure provides both strength and flexibility. Throughout its history, Catlin has strived to build a business for the future through a firm commitment to disciplined underwriting and a forward looking approach to managing underwriting cycles. Catlin's goal is to offer a consistent source of underwriting expertise and capacity to clients and their brokers through both hard and soft markets.

ING Groep N.V., a financial services company, provides banking, investment, life insurance, and retirement services worldwide. The company offers wealth accumulation, savings, and mortgage products and services to individuals, and small-and medium-sized businesses, as well as a range of banking products through independent banking agents; and credit products through agents, brokers, and vendors. It provides current account services and payments systems, such as savings accounts, mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit card services, investment products, and life and non-life insurance products, as well as asset management services. The company also provides wealth management services to high net worth individuals. In addition, it offers various financial products, such as mutual funds, e-brokerage, payment accounts, and pensions; and lending, payments and cash management, structured finance, leasing and commercial finance, and financial markets products and services. Further, the company offers life insurance, investments, and retirement services for retail customers; a range of traditional, unit-linked, and variable annuity policies written for individual and group customers; mandatory and voluntary pension funds; fire, motor, disability, transport, and third party liability insurance for individual and commercial/group clients; and disability insurance products and complementary services for employers and self-employed professionals, such as dentists, general practitioners, and lawyers, as well as manages equity, fixed income, and structured investments for institutional investors and private label investment funds. As of December 31, 2009, ING Groep N.V. had approximately 250 retail banking branches in the Netherlands; 800 in Belgium; 430 in Poland/central Europe; and 460 in Asia. ING Groep N.V. was founded in 1991 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Illinois Mutual is a McCord family affair. O.L. McCord, the great-grandfather of current chairman and president Michel A. McCord, founded Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1910, and four consecutive generations of McCord men have done their family proud by helming the insurer. Illinois Mutual specializes in disability income insurance, but also offers life insurance and annuity products. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance company's offerings include personal income protection, business expense coverage, and special risk income protection for those with medical conditions. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company distributes its products nationwide through more than 18,000 independent agents.

Bermuda: sun, sand, and reinsurance. In 1998 struggling Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) was the first life reinsurer to hang its shingle in the tax-sheltered haven of Bermuda. However, it has ceased writing new coverage and in 2008 dissolved Annuity and Life Re America, which was once the company's flagship subsidiary. Previously it covered term, whole, and universal life insurance policies.

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