Founded in Cincinnati in 1888 as The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, and celebrating 135 years this year, Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 company, is the parent company of a group of diversified financial services businesses. Its assets owned ($70 billion) and managed ($35 billion) totaled $105 billion as of June 30, 2023. Western & Southern is one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. Its seven life insurance subsidiaries (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western-Southern Life Assurance Company, Columbus Life Insurance Company, Gerber Life Insurance Company,1 Integrity Life Insurance Company, The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain very strong financial ratings. Other member companies include Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fabric by Gerber Life; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;2 Gerber Life Agency;3 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;2 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;4 W&S Brokerage Services, Inc.;2,4 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc.5 Western & Southern is the title sponsor of seven major community events every year, including the Western & Southern Open, a premier event in the U.S. Open Series played each August by the world’s top-ranked professional male and female tennis players.
1 Gerber Life is a registered trademark. Used under license from Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. and Gerber Products Company. 2 A registered investment advisor.
3 In the State of California, Gerber Life Agency, LLC is known as and does business as Gerber Life Insurance Agency, LLC.
4 A registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC.
5 W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc. (doing business as W&S Financial Insurance Services in CA).
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