Power Financial owns about half of IGM Financial, which owns Investors Group and Mackenzie Financial, distributors of mutual funds and other investment products and services. Power Financial gets a charge out of insurance and investments. The holding company seeks controlling stakes in financial services companies in the US, the UK, and Canada. Core investments include 73%-owned Great-West Lifeco (subsidiaries include Great-West Life Assurance, Canada Life, and London Life Insurance, leading providers of insurance in Canada). Lifeco's US subsidiary, Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance, provides employee benefits and retirement plans. Boston-based fund manager Putnam Investments is also part of the family.

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group sells commercial and personal property/casualty insurance -- including automobile, businessowners, homeowners, inland marine, and umbrella coverage -- to clients in the northeastern US. The group consists of three companies: Granite Mutual, Northern Security, and Vermont Mutual Insurance. The companies operate in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. A network of independent agents markets the group's products. One of the oldest American mutual insurance firms, Vermont Mutual Insurance Group traces its roots back to 1828 when it was established as a fire insurance company.

AEGON N.V., through its subsidiaries, provides life insurance, pensions, and investment products in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company also involves in accident, supplemental health, general insurance, and banking activities. Its life insurance products include permanent and universal insurance; traditional life products, such as life insurance sold as part of defined benefit pension plans, endowment policies, post-retirement annuity products, and group risk products; endowment insurance; term and whole life insurance; annuity insurance; endowment savings; variable unit linked products; and health insurance products. The company also offers individual savings and retirement products, including savings accounts and investment contracts, fixed and variable annuities, and retail mutual funds; pensions and asset management products, such as individual and corporate pensions, investment, and asset management products, as well as institutional and retail funds, and life and pensions products; and guaranteed investment contracts, funding agreements, and medium-term notes. AEGON also provides employer solutions, such as single premium group annuities; and reinsurance products and solutions to life insurance and financial services companies. In addition, it offers asset management services, including general account assets, unit-linked portfolio, and guaranteed fund; general insurance products, such as house, car, and fire insurance; supplemental health insurance; and investment advisory services. The company offers its products through financial advice channel, specialist employee benefit consultancies, independent and career agents, financial planners, registered representatives, independent marketing organizations, banks, regional and independent broker-dealers, benefit consulting firms, wirehouses, and affinity groups, as well as through online, and direct and worksite marketing. AEGON was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.

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.

SCF Arizona is the leading provider of Arizona workers’ compensation insurance. Founded in 1925, SCF has nearly 35,000 policyholders and covers more than 50 percent of all businesses working in Arizona.As a leading advocate of workplace safety, SCF is proactive in keeping Arizona’s workers' compensation rates among the lowest in the nation. SCF covers only businesses operating in Arizona and has offices in Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City, Phoenix, Prescott, Show Low, Tucson and Yuma.

Lombard International Assurance S.A. has expanded from its traditional European operating base to include operations in Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region. Lombard International Assurance S.A. is a subsidiary of UK insurer Friends Provident. Don't look to Lombard unless you live the "luxe" life. Lombard International Assurance targets Europe's high-net-worth and ultra high-net-worth individuals with its international life insurance products, which are sold through private banks and financial advisors. Lombard company's offerings include insurance policies and wealth preservation and investment advisory services, including tax and inheritance planning services. Its partnerships with financial advisors allow for the coordination of asset management services.

Delphi Financial Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated employee benefit services. The company operates in two segments, Group Employee Benefit Products and Asset Accumulation Products. The Group Employee Benefit Products segment provides group life, disability, and excess workers’ compensation insurance products to small and mid-sized employers. It also offers travel accident, voluntary accidental death and dismemberment, and group dental and limited benefit health insurance products, as well as assumed workers’ compensation and casualty reinsurance. This segment markets its group products to employer-employee groups and associations in various industries primarily through independent brokers and agents. The Asset Accumulation Products segment offers fixed annuities, such as single premium deferred annuities, flexible premium annuities, and multi-year interest guarantee products. It offers its products and services in the United States and Canada to individuals through networks of independent insurance agents. Delphi Financial Group also provides integrated disability and absence management services, including event reporting, leave of absence management, claims and case management, and return to work management. Delphi Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

Founded in 1970 as N.E.L. Permanent Health Insurances Limited (a subsidiary of Surrey-based life insurer NEL), in 1990 Unum Limited became a subsidiary of US-based Unum Corporation (now UnumProvident Corporation) after Unum acquired NEL. E pluribus unum is an apt phrase for describing this company. Unum Limited, which operates as UnumProvident, provides short- and long-term income protection or disability insurance to more than 2 million people in the UK. UnumProvident is the leading UK provider of group income protection and also offers critical illness insurance, as well as executive-income replacement insurance. The company's insurance products cover both employer groups and individuals.

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (SMLINY) offers more than just life insurance and it offers it in 49 states in addition to New York. The company, founded in 1886, markets individual and group life, accident, and disability coverage. Its Secure Benefits Solutions unit sells worksite benefits to businesses and credit union members. It also offers third-party administration to businesses that sponsor their own pensions. SMLINY holds 20% of National Security Life and Annuity Company and markets its products in New York, while Ohio National Financial Services holds the remainder of the business.

Church Pension Fund maintains the Episcopal Church Clergy and Employees' Benefit Trust (the "Medical Trust"), which was created in 1978 to provide benefits for the Church's employees and their families. Broken stained glass window? Fractured clerical clavicle? Church Pension Group can help. Its Church Pension Fund and Church Life Insurance divisions provide pensions, life insurance, disability coverage, and other benefits for clergy and workers of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the US. Church Insurance Companies provides specialty property/casualty insurance plans tailored specifically for churches.

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