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The company that acquired The Phoenix Companies Inc. has now completed efforts to acquire the U.S. variable annuity and variable life operations of The Independent Order of Foresters.
For the buyer, Nassau Financial Group LP, the announcement means that Nassau now has a bigger presence in the U.S. life and annuity markets.
For Foresters, completing the deal means that the company can now move ahead with efforts to focus more narrowly on sales of protection life insurance to moderate-income families.
The Deal Background
Nassau acquired Foresters Financial Holding Inc. and Foresters Life Insurance and Annuity Company.
The businesses acquired have 112,000 policyholders and $2.5 billion in assets. They have offices in Edison, New Jersey, and New York City.
Foresters ended up with Foresters Financial and Foresters Life in 2011, when it bought a New York-based investment management company, First Investors Consolidated Corp.
Foresters sold the First Investors broker-dealer and advisory business to Cetera in August 2019, and it sold the First Investors mutual fund business to Macquarie Investment Management in October 2019.
Foresters' Plans
Foresters is a Toronto-based fraternal life insurer that has been focusing on expanding the sale of term life, universal life and whole life in the United States and Canada.
