Headquarters: 1 Corporate Way, Lansing, MI 48951
http://www.jackson.com/

First Quarter 2010 Sales and Deposits: $4.4 billion (up 62 percent over first quarter 2009)

Key Officers: Clark P. Manning Jr., President, Chief Executive Officer; Andrew B. Hopping, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer; Michael A. Wells, Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer

Jackson National Life (named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States) opened as a family-owned life insurance company in 1961. Today, they offer variable, fixed and fixed index annuities in addition to life insurance and other financial services. The company has nearly $77 billion in total assets.

Jackson helps local community programs with an emphasis on children and the elderly by offering donations and sponsorships; logging more than 4,600 volunteer hours annually; and contributing a 2-to-1 company match on monetary employee donations to charity.

As of March 2010, the company was reaffirmed as superior and very strong in their financial strength ratings by Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor’s, A.M. Best and Moody’s Investors Service. Jackson is currently the 16th largest U.S. life insurance company ranked by general account assets.

Sources: jackson.com, Hoover’s, Google Finance

Compiled by Life Quotes, Inc. staff