Integrity Marketing Buys 4 Distribution Firms: Deals

Dentist Direct is a Bountiful, Utah-based dental and vision insurers. The company also has a discount dental plan provider, Direct Access. The company was founded in 2005 and now has about 60,000 enrollees.

Dentist Direct will keep its employees and its own local dentist network, Renaissance Life says.

Deal Completions

Blackstone affiliates have acquired Allstate Life Insurance Company and several Allstate Life subsidiaries from The Allstate Corp. for $4 billion.

Blackstone has acquired a 9.9% equity stake in the life & retirement business at American International for $2.2 billion in cash. Blackstone is renaming the business Everlake Life Insurance.

Ameriprise Financial has acquired the Europe, Middle East and Africa asset management business from BMO Financial Group for the equivalent of about $829 million. Ameriprise is getting about $131 billion in additional assets under management.

Zelis, a health care payments company, has acquired Sapphire Digital, a health care provider selection and health price information data firm.

Zing Health, a Chicago-based Medicare Advantage plan company, has acquired Lasso Healthcare, a medical savings account company based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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