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Since its predecessor was founded as Columbus Mutual in 1906, Columbus Life Insurance Company has consistently grown and prospered for 100 years. Today, we have more than 3,000 financial service representatives marketing our insurance products and services, supported by a diverse and talented home office team of insurance professionals.

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
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 3,000
Structure:
Independent Producers
US Market:
Doing business in 48 states and the District of Columbia
Company Icon:
The Santa Maria Ship

Columbus Life Insurance Company is not licensed in AK or NY or outside the United States. Updated 09/05/2005 NAIC #99937 Columbus Life is domiciled in Ohio.


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+ for Very Strong financial security characteristics (second highest of 21 ratings; rating held since August 2005)
Fitch AA+ for Very Strong insurer financial strength (second highest of 24 ratings; rating held since September 2002)
A.M. Best A++ Superior for financial strength, operating performance and market profile (highest of 16 ratings; rating held since June 2005)
Moody’s Aa2 Excellent for insurance financial strength (third highest of 21 ratings; rating held since September 1996)

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®

Columbus Life is a member of Western & Southern Financial Group, a Cincinnati-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, under management and under our care in excess of $47 billion. A Fortune 500 company, Western & Southern has received A.M. Best’s highest rating of A++ Superior for financial strength, Standard & Poor’s AA+ rating (one of the 10 highest rated life insurance groups in the world) and is consistently recognized by Moody’s and Fitch for financial strength and sound management. 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., Integrated Investment Services, Inc., Integrity Life Insurance Company, The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, National Integrity Life Insurance Company, Todd Investment Advisors, Inc.,1 Touchstone Advisors, Inc.,1 and Touchstone Securities, Inc.2 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.

1 A registered investment advisor.
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.





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