Founded in Cincinnati in 1888 as The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc., a
Fortune 500
® company at No. 284, is the parent company of a
group of diversified financial services businesses. Its assets owned ($80 billion) and managed ($42 billion) totaled $122 billion as of Sept. 30, 2024.
1 Western & Southern is one of the strongest life insurance groups in the world. Its seven life insurance subsidiaries (The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, Western-Southern Life Assurance Company, Columbus Life Insurance Company, Gerber Life Insurance Company,
2 Integrity Life Insurance Company, The Lafayette Life Insurance Company, and National Integrity Life Insurance Company) maintain very strong financial ratings. Other member companies include Eagle Realty Group, LLC; Fabric by Gerber Life; Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc.;
3 Gerber Life Agency;
4 IFS Financial Services, Inc.; Touchstone Advisors, Inc.;
3 Touchstone Securities, Inc.;
5 W&S Brokerage Services, Inc.;
3,5 and W&S Financial Group Distributors, Inc.
6 Western & Southern is a title sponsor of several major community events every year. From 2002 to 2023, it served as title sponsor of Cincinnati’s longtime professional tennis tournament – now named the Cincinnati Open – an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event and one of the world’s largest tournaments. The company continues to serve as a major sponsor of the event.
