Legal & General - A major UK financial services group
- A leading provider of insurance, investment and savings products in the UK
- Established in 1836
- Over 7 million customers and approximately 9,000 employees
- The Group's primary focus is on the UK but it also has operations in the USA,
the Netherlands, France and Germany.
Financial strength
Financial strength ratings for Legal & General Assurance Society Limited are as follows:
| Rating | |
|---|---|
| Standard & Poor's | AA- |
| A.M.Best | A+ |
| Moody's | Aa3 |
A leading fund manager
- Legal & General Investment Management ("LGIM") provides fund management expertise to the Group's retail and corporate businesses as well as to trustees of pension schemes and other institutional clients.
- LGIM had some £330bn funds under management as at 31 March 2010.
- LGIM is the largest fund manager of UK pension funds and the largest investor in the UK equities market.
International businesses
- Our business in the USA is one of the country's largest brokerage channel writers of term assurance for high net worth customers. Business is transacted through two subsidiaries - Banner Life and William Penn.
- In the Netherlands, we concentrate on both annual and single premium business for higher income households distributed via independent intermediaries and through banks.
- Our French business sells primarily single premium investment based products through a direct sales organisation.
For an extensive list of other awards we won last year, please see http://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/about-us/roll-honour.cfm
