Life Insurance Industry Competitors

Alleanza Assicurazioni believes that life is beautiful, and has proven it by insuring lives in Italy for more than a century. Today it serves more than 2 million policyholders throughout the country. Along with basic life insurance, the company serves up products targeted to serve specific markets -- policies for customers with children and fixed-duration policies for middle-aged customers....

For individuals and smaller commercial customers seeking insurance in Germany, AMB Generali has them covered. Through more than 20 subsidiaries, it is one of that country's top health, life, property/casualty, and liability insurers. Its multiline companies include Aachen Münchner, Volksfürsorge, and CosmosDirekt....

Americo Life is a holding company for subsidiaries that primarily sell life insurance and annuities. The company sells its products mainly through its Americo Financial Life and Annuity Insurance unit. Americo Life companies also offer insurance policies that cover funeral expenses and mortgages....

Italy's largest insurance company (and one of the largest in Europe), Assicurazioni Generali writes insurance for risks as varied as space launches and corporate package policies. Some 300 companies in more than 40 countries make up the Generali group. About 100 core companies are involved primarily in insurance (including life, accident, health, motor, fire, marine/aviation, and reinsurance); the rest concentrate on other financial services and real estate....

Should Assurances Générales de France add d'Allemagne to its name? Assurances Générales de France (AGF), owned by German insurer Allianz, helps to form one of the top insurers in Europe and is one of the Continent's major insurance companies in its own right....

Cathay Life knows its customers only have one life to live, so the insurer tries to help them make the most of it. The flagship company of the Lin-Yuan Group conglomerate, Cathay Life Insurance is the largest insurer in Taiwan, offering individual and group life, accident, and health insurance via a nationwide network of sales agents....

ING Groep is a Dutch hybrid of banking, insuring, and asset-managing services. One of the world's largest insurance and financial services companies, its operations are focused on its home market of Benelux, as well as Asia/Pacific, Europe, and North America....

Irish Life & Permanent hopes the green, green grass of home will be a fertile spot for growth. The company has pulled in its expansionist horns in favor of an "Ireland first" strategy, all but confining its sales of insurance, investment management, mortgage loans, and other personal financial products and services to its home country, where it has about a million customers....

They're not just standing on the corner of 12th Street and Vine! Kansas City Life Insurance and subsidiary Sunset Life sell their products throughout the US to individuals (life insurance and annuities) and to groups (life, dental, vision, and disability insurance)....

Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea's two life insurance giants (the other is Samsung Life; together they control almost 70% of the market), provides life insurance and asset management products to more than 10 million customers....

Nippon Life Insurance, also known as Nissay, is one of Japan's biggest life insurers (along with Dai-Ichi Mutual Life, Sumitomo Life, and Meiji Yasuda Life). A door-to-door sales corps peddles its plain-vanilla products, including individual and group life and annuity products; the company has some 10 million policyholders in Japan....

The name belies its demutualized status: Old Mutual is a financial services group doing business in South Africa and the rest of the world. Old Mutual is South Africa's largest financial services group, with subsidiaries offering life insurance, banking (Nedbank Group), general insurance (Mutual & Federal), and asset management services....

Prudential Financial wants to make sure its position near the top of the life insurance summit is set in stone. Prudential, known for its Rock of Gibraltar logo, is one of the largest US life insurers (along with MetLife) and one of the largest insurers worldwide....

The Man from the Pru now surfs the Internet. The company is known for its iconic Man from the Pru agent, now relegated to memory after being supplanted by other sales channels. Prudential is the UK's largest life insurer; it also has significant operations in Asia and the US....

Sammons Enterprises summons its revenues from several sources. The diversified holding company's interests include life insurance and financial services (Midland National Life Insurance, North American Company for Life and Health Insurance, and Sammons Annuity Group) and heavy equipment sales and rentals (Briggs Equipment)....

Samsung Life Insurance is the Korean insurance dragon. As South Korea's largest insurance company (with a commanding market share upwards of one-third) and a part of the Samsung chaebol, the company offers insurance (life, health, accident, annuities), asset management, and related financial products, including mortgage loans....

Charlize Theron may have run away to Hollywood, but South Africa is keeping plenty of financial star power at home in the form of The Sanlam Group. The company’s major operational areas are life insurance (including annuities and other investment products) and short-term insurance (property and casualty coverage sold through majority-owned Santam)....

Trying to set the standard for life insurance and financial services both at home and abroad, Standard Life plc (formerly The Standard Life Assurance Company) is a leading UK insurance, asset management, and pension firm. The holding company does business through subsidiaries including Standard Life Assurance Limited, Standard Life Bank (mortgages and savings products), Standard Life Investments (retail and institutional investment management), and Standard Life Healthcare (health insurance for groups and individuals)....

One of Japan's biggest mutual life insurers (along with Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Mutual Life), Sumitomo Life Insurance has struggled but remains solvent in a troubled industry faced with deregulation....

Despite the chilly winters in its homeland, Sun Life tries to stay on the sunny side of life. The company offers insurance and wealth management products to individuals and business entities, primarily in Canada and the US. It also has operations in Asia and Europe....