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.

Manulife Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a life insurance company. It provides a range of financial products and services, including individual life insurance, group life and health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension products, annuities, and mutual funds to individual and group customers in the United States, Canada, and Asia. The company also offers reinsurance services, specializing in life retrocession, and property and casualty reinsurance, as well as provides investment management services to mutual funds and institutional customers. Manulife Financial Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Marine and General Mutual Life Assurance Society founded in 1852, has some £1.6 billion in assets under management. The company's products are distributed through a network of independent agents. As a mutual society, MGM Advantage has no shareholders, but rather is owned by a group of its policyholders. Marine and General Mutual Life Assurance Society, better known as MGM Advantage, has no connection to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or their roaring lion. Mutual insurer MGM Advantage, which formerly conducted business as MGM Assurance, provides financial services, pension products, life insurance, mortgages, and annuities to customers in the UK.

Founded in 1851, MassMutual's US and global clients include individuals and businesses. The company also offers disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, structured settlement annuities, and trust services. Its subsidiaries include OppenheimerFunds (mutual funds), Babson Capital Management (investor services), Baring Asset Management (international investment), and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors (real estate investment management). Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, sometimes known as MassMutual Financial Group, but usually called by its nickname, MassMutual, provides financial services including life insurance, annuities, money management, and retirement planning.

MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. It offers group life insurance products and services as employer-paid benefits, including variable life, universal life, and term life products, as well as employee paid supplemental life products; individual life insurance products and services comprising variable life, universal life, term life, and whole life products, as well as a range of mutual funds and other securities products; and non-medical health insurance products and services, such as dental insurance, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability income, long-term care, critical illness, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages, as well as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance and administrative services-only arrangements to employers. MetLife company also provides retirement products consisting of variable and fixed annuities for individuals and employees of corporations, and other institutions. In addition, MetLife provides an array of annuity and investment products, including guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, income annuities, and separate account contracts for the investment management of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets, as well as offers certain products to fund postretirement benefits. Further, it offers auto insurance and homeowners’ insurance policies, as well as personal excess liability and coverage for recreational vehicles and boat owners; and credit insurance and endowment products. Additionally, MetLife funds company initiatives, various start-up entities, and run-off entities; and banking services, such as residential mortgage loans and various deposit products. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1868 and is based in New York, New York.

Born in 1898, Metropolitan Holdings Limited company is one of the largest financial services conglomerates in Africa serving the low- to mid-income markets. Metropolitan Holdings provides life insurance to some 4 million residents in eight nations, including South Africa where it is a leading life insurer. Its life products are distributed directly and through intermediaries and brokers. Metropolitan also offers retirement fund benefits, asset management, and managed health-care administration. Metropolitan Holdings Limited company plans to merge with another South African insurer, FirstRand's Momentum Group, to form MMI Holdings. Metropolitan brings insurance and financial services to those who may not be accustomed to such things.

Milano Assicurazioni sells auto, accident, health, fire, casualty, and marine insurance, as well as reinsurance. Car insurance is its largest segment, accounting for more than 50% of written premiums, though Milano Assicurazioni S.p.A. has seen healthy growth in its life segment as well. In business since 1825, Milano Assicurazioni is one of the oldest insurance firms in Italy. Milano Assicurazioni S.p.A. is part of the Fondiaria-SAI insurance group, controlled by the Ligresti family through the Premafin Finanziaria holding company. In 1997 Fondiaria moved its Previdente Assicurazioni operations into Milano Assicurazioni.

One of the largest fraternal benefit societies in the US, Modern Woodmen provides annuities and life insurance to more than 750,000 members through some 1,500 agents. The group, founded in 1883, is organized into "camps" (or chapters) that provide social, recreational, and service -- as well as financial -- benefits to members. Founder Joseph Cullen Root chose the society's name to compare pioneering woodmen clearing forests to men using life insurance to remove the financial burdens their families could face upon their deaths. Modern Woodmen offerings also include mutual funds, brokerage, and retirement and educational savings plans.

Monumental Life Insurance markets its products through general career agents and independent marketing groups. It also markets its final expense and funeral costs coverage through funeral directors. Many of its general agents are former military personnel who sell life insurance to service members. Even ordinary life insurance sounds more impressive when it's monumental life. Monumental Life Insurance offers life insurance, annuities, disability and disease insurance, final expense coverage, and other products. A subsidiary of Dutch insurance giant AEGON, Monumental Life Insurance targets lower- and middle-income markets. It is licensed in all states (except New York) and Washington, DC.

MullinTBG helps executives benefit from their benefit plans. Offering more than 600 customized plans, MullinTBG helps both large corporations and emerging growth companies retain personnel with executive benefits, retirement, and compensation packages. It offers such specialty insurance products as company-owned life insurance and customized nonqualified deferred compensation plans. MullinTBG also specializes in plan design, enrollment, record keeping, reporting, and communications. Through subsidiary MullinTBG Advisors, the firm offers financial planning and investment advice. It has offices throughout the US. Prudential Financial acquired MullinTBG in 2008 and made it part of its Prudential Retirement business.

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