The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company (VALIC) is anything but boring. The firm is a major provider of group retirement plan services to elementary and high schools, colleges, and hospitals. It provides annuities and life insurance to more than 25,000 client groups (representing some 2 million investors) throughout the US. VALIC is part of AIG American General, the domestic life insurance operations of American International Group. AIG has announced that it will sell all of its domestic life insurance operations, including VALIC.

Through its three operating subsidiaries, AssuranceAmerica Corporation writes and markets nonstandard (high-risk) auto insurance to customers in 10 southeastern states. Its AssuranceAmerica Insurance subsidiary writes the policies, while its Managing General Agency markets the products and provides services through a network of 2,500 independent agencies. Its TrustWay Insurance Agencies operates retail agencies in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia, which sell nonstandard auto insurance underwritten by AssuranceAmerica and other unaffiliated carriers.

Austin Mutual Insurance sells personal and commercial property/casualty insurance. Products include automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and mobile home and other dwellings coverage. Other offerings include businessowners coverage, commercial and personal umbrella liability, and workers' compensation. The company does business in Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. Its policies are distributed through a network of independent insurance agents. Austin Mutual Insurance was founded in 1896 as the Farmers United Township Mutual Hail Association of Minnesota to provide crop insurance.

SNS REAAL Groep has a real focus on financial services for Dutch customers, particularly retail clients and small-to-medium businesses. Through several operating units, SNS REAAL offers a wide variety of banking and insurance products in the Netherlands. The group's primary subsidiaries are SNS Bank and REAAL Verzekeringen. SNS Bank provides retail banking services online and through about 150 branch offices throughout the Netherlands. REAAL Verzekeringen offers life and general insurance to retail and business clients through independent financial advisers. In addition, the company operates about a dozen other subsidiaries offering everything from socially responsible banking to sustainable asset management.

The Campbell Group got its start over 40 years ago at the kitchen table of its founder, Ward Scott Campbell, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Today, thanks to a "rolled-up sleeves" attitude from our 130 employee owners, and their comprehensive approach to working with clients, Campbell has grown to become one of the largest and most trusted independent insurance providers.

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (Reliance Standard) is a leading insurance carrier specializing in innovative and flexible employee benefits solutions including disability income and group term life insurance, a suite of voluntary (employee paid) coverage options and fully integrated absence management. Reliance Standard markets these solutions through independent brokers and agents to employers of all sizes. Rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best*, Reliance Standard began its centennial year in 2006. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company provides insurance products and services in all states (except New York), the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In New York, insurance products and services are provided through First Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, home office: New York, N.Y. Product availability and features may vary by state. It distributes its products through independent agents and brokers.

Through its three subsidiaries,RLI Corp. mainly offers coverage for US niche markets -- risks that are hard to place in the standard market and are otherwise underserved. It focuses on public and private companies as well as non-profit organizations. RLI's property/casualty lines include commercial and personal liability, commercial property, directors and officers liability, general liability, and surety. Transportation, employers excess indemnity, and residential property are among its other lines.

Euler Hermes has expanded organically or through acquisitions to become the world's largest credit insurer. Today the group is present in over 50 countries.After the acquisition by Euler of the German credit insurance group Hermes from Allianz in July 2002, the Euler Hermes group put in place a global harmonisation process of all its brands with a common visual identity. The current Euler Hermes group has mainly been built up by its two largest subsidiaries, Euler Hermes SFAC in France and Euler Hermes Kreditversicherung in Germany.SFAC was founded in 1927 by several large insurance companies, including Assurances Générales (a forerunner to AGF) and Swiss Reinsurance company and has hold since its beginning the no. 1 position in the French credit insurance market.

Canada Life Financial is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco, which is itself controlled by the Power Corporation of Canada. Canada Life Financial is the parent of Canada Life Assurance which offers both group and individual policies for life, critical illness, creditor, and disability insurance as well as reinsurance. Canada Life Assurance also provides annuities, pension plans, trusts, and other investment products, along with financial and investment management. In addition to serving customers in Canada, the company does business in Germany, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the UK, and the US.

GuideOne provides personal and commercial lines of property/casualty and liability insurance, including standard auto and homeowners coverage. The company targets churches of all faiths (it insures nearly 45,000 -- nearly a fifth of the nation's churches) as well as faith-based private schools and colleges, and church-affiliated senior living facilities. GuideOne's FaithGuard products offer coverage for people who actively attend church. A network of more than 1,500 independent and company agents sell its products. GuideOne was founded in 1947.

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