Old Mutual plc, our parent company, is a London-based financial services company with expanding operations in life assurance, asset management, banking and short-term, general insurance. Old Mutual's history dates back to 1845.

Old Mutual is considered to be among one of the world's most respected and well established financial institutions and, in fact, is a Fortune Global 500 and a FTSE 100 financial services company. As of February 2006, Old Mutual group has in excess of $414 billion of assets under management and over 4 million life assurance policyholders, 3.6 million banking customers, 600,000 property and casualty insurance policyholders and over 900,000 unit trust accounts.