GUARD Insurance Group protects employers from potential liabilities the entrepreneurial spirit of our roots still lives. Current CEO and President Sy Foguel has taken the pulse of the marketplace and believes that insurance has become an overly complicated but increasingly critical challenge for smaller business owners. As a result, he feels the time is right to make GUARD the place to go for simple, fast, and reliable “One-Stop Insurance Shopping.” This vision marked the start of BizGUARD Plus, and we are currently taking this product into more and more states. This success has been one of many proud milestones.

Northwestern Mutual also offers brokerage and trust services through its investment services and wealth management subsidiaries. Keep an eye on the quiet ones. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, touting itself as "The Quiet Company," is one of the largest US life insurers, with more than $1 trillion in individual policies in force. Its 7,000 representatives sell a lineup of life, disability, long-term care, and employee benefits products (health, dental, 401(k) plans). It also offers retirement products, including annuities and mutual funds, to a clientele of small businesses and prosperous individuals. Its institutional asset manager Frank Russell Company is known for the Russell 2000 stock index.

Founded in 1911 in the Caribbean basin, the company also provides voluntary and employer-paid worksite benefit programs. Along with its regular coverage to middle-income customers, the company also offers dollar-denominated life insurance in Latin America for wealthy individuals. It is licensed in 42 states and in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Pan-American Life reorganized as a mutual holding company in 2006. Pan-American spans the Americas with its insurance offerings. The company sells such products as individual and group life insurance, disability insurance, and investment products in the US, Puerto Rico, and its main focus of six Latin American countries.

Western National Life Insurance Company has helped Americans achieve financial security with innovative fixed annuity products for more than 50 years. In fact, Western National was one of the first insurance companies to develop fixed annuity products specifically for sale through banks, and has been the nation’s #1 provider of tax-deferred fixed annuities in this market for 14 consecutive years.1, 2Over the past two decades, Western National has consistently received some of the highest ratings from independent nationally recognized insurance company rating agencies. We have operated for 54 years without ever defaulting on an annuity contract. Licensed in 49 states and the District of Columbia, Western National products are built upon deep market knowledge and supported by the financial strength of Western National.

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) helps its clients hold onto their assets. It provides life and property/casualty insurance, retirement funds, and investment products to individuals and businesses. The company has operations through subsidiaries and partnerships in Australia, China, Indonesia, Macao, New Zealand, and other Asia/Pacific countries. The company partners with AllianceBernstein to provide asset management services in Australia and New Zealand. French insurance giant AXA owns 54% of the firm. AXA APH has become an object of desire for local banks, and AXA would like to take over all of its Asian operations.

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.

In 1993, a joint venture was created with South Staffordshire Water in response to a perceived gap in the home emergency market. Home insurers did not offer customers a complete home emergency solution. With this in mind, the HomeServe vision - to offer customers home emergency related insurance products, and give them peace of mind - was born. From selling the first plumbing and drains policy in 1994, the business has transformed into a successful, fast moving FTSE 250 company, with over 9 million emergency insurance policies sold across the UK, France, Spain and the US. Partnerships have been formed with utility, energy and insurance companies.

Keenan is the largest privately held insurance brokerage/consulting firm in California. Keenan’s innovative solutions provide high quality, cost-effective insurance, employee benefits, and financial services. We specialize in proprietary programs for public agencies and healthcare organizations. Our expertise in risk management, claims services, and technology consistently exceeds customer expectations.

"History" often implies a longer run and a less recent past than 15 years. In our business, Alternative Risk Transfer (ART), that is a long span. We have evolved from a venture capital-based start-up to a successful and profitable enterprise. Writing almost $1 billion of business with over 300 employees, we have a powerful infrastructure and a professional business culture that is both pragmatic and flexible. We have learned and continue to execute the "art" of ART better than anyone in the industry because that is our sole focus.

SCOR S.E. provides non-life reinsurance and life reinsurance products. Its non-life reinsurance products include reinsurance covering property damage, industrial and commercial goods, vehicles, ships, stored or transported merchandise, operating losses caused by fires or other events, and damages caused to third parties under civil liability coverage, including automobile liability and general civil liability; specialty reinsurance activities, including credit and surety, ten-year inherent defects insurance, aviation, space, marine, engineering, agricultural risks, and structured risk transfer; reinsurance covering various insurable risks during construction and operation of industrial groups and service companies; and reinsurance coverages underwritten through joint ventures and partnerships. Its life reinsurance products cover life, health and medical insurance, and personal insurance, such as accidents, disability, illness, or incapacity.

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