Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, an insurance holding company, engages in individual and group life, annuity, asset-intensive, critical illness, and financial reinsurance in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It provides reinsurance for a portfolio of life insurance products, including term life, credit life, universal life, whole life, group life, joint and last survivor insurance, and critical illness, as well as annuities and financial reinsurance. The companys asset-intensive reinsurance products primarily include reinsurance of corporate-owned life insurance and annuities. It also offers reinsurance for mortality, morbidity, lapse risks, and investment-related risks. Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri.