Northwestern Mutual Company Description:
For nearly 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped clients achieve their financial goals. Our financial advisors build lifelong relationships with clients and help them plan for all of their financial security needs with confidence. As a mutual company with no shareholders, we focus solely and directly on our clients and seeks to deliver consistent and dependable value over time.
 
Accolades:

• World’s Most Admired: We are among the “World’s Most Admired” companies, according to FORTUNE magazine’s annual survey, published Feb. 19, 2015.

 

• Top 10 Broker-Dealer: We rank among the Top 10 independent broker-dealers, as measured by total revenues by leading investment publications: Financial Advisor magazine, April 2014; Financial Planning magazine, June 2014; and Investment Advisor magazine, June 2014.

 

• Guidance: Northwestern Mutual’s training program is recognized as the country’s best in the financial services industry, helping our financial advisors advisors guide to a more secure financial future. (Training Magazine, 2015)

 

• Customer Satisfaction: We have a persistency rate of 96 percent for life insurance in force.

 

• Market Share: We are the largest direct provider of individual life insurance in the United States, ranking first in market share based on 2013 data from SNL Financial.

 

• Dividends: We expect to pay an industry-leading total dividend of $5.5 billion in 2015

 

• Ratings: We have the highest financial strength ratings awarded by any life insurer by all four major credit rating agencies: A.M. Best Company A++ (highest), 4/2014; Fitch Ratings AAA (highest), 11/2014; Moody’s Investors Service Aaa (highest), 12/2014; Standard & Poor’s AA+ (second highest), 7/2014. Ratings are subject to change.

Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI (NM) (life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries.  Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company, Milwaukee, WI, (long-term care insurance) subsidiary of NM.  Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC, (securities) subsidiary of NM, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company®, (NMWMC) Milwaukee, WI, (investment management, trust services, and fee-based financial planning) subsidiary of NM, limited purpose federal savings bank.