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North American Company History

You can have confidence in North American.

With over 130 years of business under our belt, North American’s continued and consistent financial strength is a result of our conservative and disciplined investment strategy, our private ownership structure, and doing what’s right for our distribution partners and policyowners.

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1800's

1886
Founded as North American Accident Association.

1890
A.E. Forest purchased the company for $2,000 and appointed the company’s first general agent.

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1900's

1918
First company to offer a disability insurance policy for women.

1981
North American actively entered the brokerage marketplace.

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2000's

2001
Sammons Annuity Group, North American’s Annuity Division, was founded.

2011
North American celebrated its 125th anniversary.

2000 – 2019
Leader in fixed index annuity sales: According to WINK Sales and Market reports, Sammons Financial Companies consistently ranked among the top 10 largest writers of fixed index annuities.1

2000 – 2019
Leader in fixed index annuity sales: According to LIMRA, Sammons Financial Companies has consistently ranked among the top seven largest writers of fixed index annuities.2

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1. Source: Wink Sales and Market Reports. Wink, Inc. is the company behind the most comprehensive life insurance and annuity due-diligence tools, AnnuitySpecs and LifeSpecs at www.WinkIntel.com. Wink, Inc. is the distributor of the quarterly Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Serving as the insurance industry’s #1 resource of indexed insurance product sales since 1997, this report provides sales by product, company, crediting method, index, distribution, surrender charge period, and more. Wink’s Sales & Market Report expanded to cover all deferred annuity products in 2015, all deferred variable annuity products in 2019 and all non-variable cash value life insurance products in 2017.

2. Source: Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA) Secure Retirement Institute. LIMRA conducts research on distribution systems for the financial services industry.

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