History of success
1960s
- Head office moved to Temple Court
- Asset value £1 billion by end of the decade
1970s
- Established "Legal & General (Pensions Management)"
- Introduced index-linked policies and entered unit-linked market
- Established a direct sales force
- Asset value exceeded £2.5 billion
- Legal & General Group plc is established
1980s
- Purchased US-based Government Employee Life Insurance Company renamed Banner Life
- Acquired Dutch branch of Unlike Assurance Group and merged into a new Legal & General Netherlands subsidiary
- French life branch is incorporated
- Legal & General Mortgage Services Limited is incorporated
- Purchased William Penn Life Insurance Co. of New York and our first estate agency
