The biggest insurance company in the world

In the crisis time insurance of acquires the a special significance. Both natural and legal persons want stability and security. That they are looking at insurance companies. On the other hand, the economic crisis means one comes a growing number of insurance claims and insurance companies have to compensate the many losses. Let's see how big insurance companies have been able to successfully overcome the crisis, proving their stability.

1) The absolute leader in terms of capitalization ($ 172 billion) was an American company American International Group (AIG). In real estate it is the second most popular companies in the U.S. life insurance - the first. The majority of of Americans give preference to namely American International Group (AIG). Considerable amount of capitalization, as well as assistance from the U.S. government helped to keep AIG afloat.

2) In the second place ranking is a French insurance company AXA Group ($ 66 billion). She specializes in financial insurance. At AXA Group even more customers than AIG. Unlike AIG AXA Group company survived the crisis without government assistance, and made it even more successful - the company recorded almost a billion dollars of net profit.

3) The third place is occupied by the German company Allianz Worldwide ($ 65,5 billion). The activity of the company is mainly in Europe. The company survived the crisis without major upheavals - there was not a super-profits or big losses. The reason is that the company engaged in a wide variety of insurance. Diversification into crisis helped perfectly.

4) At this place is the Canadian company Manulife ($ 50 billion), which, oddly enough, works mostly in the Asian market. Manulife million customers can not brag, but the Asian market was little affected by the crisis, but because it is easy to Manulife through.

5) The Fifth place behind the company Generali Group ($ 45 billion) out of of Italy. The company is engaged in insurance in 60 countries. It nourishes the insurable interest Generali Group and Russia: in 2007, the company owning shares of "Ingosstrakh". Other companies have settled down in the ranking as follows.

6) Prudential Financial, United States ($ 40 billion);

7) MetLife, United States ($ 38 billion);

8) Aviva, the UK ($ 33 ​​billion);

9) Munich Re Group, Germany ($ 31 billion);

10) Aegon, The Netherlands ($ 26 bln).