Hartford Fin Srvcs Grp (HIG)

Based in Connecticut, the Hartford Financial Services Group is one of the largest multi-line insurance and investment companies in the country. Hartford operates in two broad segments: Life (52% of 2007 revenue) and Property-Casualty (P&C) (48%). The Life segment provides investment products such as variable annuities, fixed annuities, mutual funds, and retirement plan services individual life policies group benefit products such as group life and group disability policies and variable corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) policies. This segment is organized into six reporting sub-segments: Retail Product Group, Retirement Plans, Institutional Solutions Group, Individual Life, Group Benefits, and International.

Hartford's P&C segment is among the top ten in the U.S., based on net premiums written. It is currently organized into five reporting sub-segments: Personal Lines, Small Commercial, Middle Market, Specialty Commercial, and Other Operations. The company had sold its P&C reinsurance business in 2003.

As of June 30, 2008, the company had total assets under management of $416.3 billion, total assets of $333.8 billion, total investments of $131.5 billion, and total shareholders' equity of $16.8 billion.

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