Western & Southern Financial Group is a dynamic family of diversified financial services companies that provides life insurance, retirement planning and investment products and services to help millions of consumers nationwide to plan and protect their futures.
Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based Fortune 500 diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned and managed in excess of $50 billion as of December 31, 2011. Western & Southern's six life insurance companies (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Columbus Life Insurance Company; Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain the following ratings for financial strength: Standard & Poor's AA+ Very Strong (currently the highest rating held by any life insurance company and making Western & Southern one of the eight highest-rated life insurance groups in the world), A.M. Best A+ Superior, Fitch AA Very Strong and Moody's1 Aa3 Excellent. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group's affiliates also include Capital Analysts Incorporated;2, 3 Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;2 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;2 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;3 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. For more information, visit www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the title sponsor of the Western & Southern Open (www.wsopen.com) tennis tournament, a premier event in the U.S. Open Series featuring the world's top-ranked professional male and female players.
1 Lafayette Life is not rated by Moody's.
2 A registered investment advisor.
3 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
Ratings are current as of 01/31/12 and refer to the claims-paying ability of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.
We invite you to further explore our family of companies by clicking on the company names in the organizational chart below.
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one of the eight highest-rated life insurance groups
in the world based on Standard & Poor's AA+ Very Strong rating.
Rating current as of November 30, 2010.