About Columbus Life
At Columbus Life we believe that we best serve our policyowners through continued support of our financial service representatives. We believe that if they are treated as we would want to be treated, they will market the Company's products and services with greater enthusiasm. More importantly, a strong and friendly relationship with the field representatives will encourage them to develop a long-term relationship with their clients and Columbus Life.
| Original Company Name: | The Columbus Mutual Life Insurance Company |
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| Structure: | Stock (operated as a mutual company) |
| Founded: | 1906 |
| Founder: | Channing Webster Brandon |
| Home Office: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Member of: | Western & Southern Financial Group |
| Number of Financial Service Representatives: | More Than 2,000 |
| Structure: | Independent Producers |
| US Market: | Doing business in 49 states and the District of Columbia |
| Company Icon: | The Santa Maria Ship |
Why Choose Columbus Life?
Our Strength
As a life insurance company, our financial strength is a valuable indicator of our dependability - both today and tomorrow. Like every other insurer, our financial strength is rigorously examined and evaluated by independent financial reporting
agencies. In making their assessments, these agencies consider our financial integrity - the quality of our assets, the
amount of funds we have in reserve, the vision and ability of our management team and our efficiency in running our
business. Financial strength is an enduring legacy of Columbus Life and has been a cornerstone of our success since our
1906 founding as Columbus Mutual.
Columbus Life Insurance Company holds the following ratings:
- Standard & Poor's AA+ Very Strong, the second highest of 21 ratings; rating held since August 2005 for very strong financial security characteristics
- A.M. Best A+ Superior, the second highest of 16 ratings; rating held since June 2009 for superior ability to meet ongoing insurance obligations
- Fitch AA Very Strong, the third highest of 21 ratings; rating held since June 2009 for very strong capacity to meet policyholder and contract obligations on a timely basis
- Moody's Aa3 Excellent, the fourth highest of 21 ratings; rating held since February 2009 for excellent financial security
Our Partner -- Capital Analysts Incorporated
Capital Analysts Incorporated is an innovative broker/dealer that has helped forge many trends that have become financial
industry standards. CAI offers financial advisors the independence to choose their business model and the products and
services they offer—plus the resources to support their choices. Spanning five decades - from its inception in 1968 as one
of the original financial planning broker/dealers and into the 21st Century - CAI has sustained its tradition of excellence
and personalized service. CAI has set trends in the industry and pioneered the concepts of multi-tiered asset
allocation,proprietary mutual fund research, and open architecture asset management programs.
Find out more about CAI at http://www.capitalanalysts.com/
Our Parent Company --
Western & Southern Financial Group
Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern) is a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned,
managed and under our care in excess of $42 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern has received Standard & Poor's AA+
Very Strong rating (one of the nine strongest life insurance groups in the world), A.M. Best's A+ Superior rating, Fitch's AA Very Strong rating and Moody's Aa3 Excellent rating, all with a Stable outlook. With a heritage dating to 1888, the group's affiliates include The Western and Southern
Life Insurance Company; Western-Southern Life Assurance Company; Capital Analysts Incorporated;1,2 Columbus Life Insurance Company; Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fort Washington Investment Advisors,
Inc.;1 Fort Washington Savings Company;3 IFS Financial Services, Inc.;
Integrity Life Insurance Company; The Lafayette Life Insurance Company; National
Integrity Life Insurance Company; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;1 Touchstone Securities, Inc.2 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. For more information, visit
www.westernsouthern.com. Western & Southern is the
title sponsor of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open tennis tournaments.
2 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
3 Member FDIC.
Ratings refer to the financial strength of the insurance company and not to the safety, stability or performance of any investment product.
