Fast Facts

Foresters

For more than 135 years, Foresters^TM, a fraternal benefit society, has been helping families live for today, plan for tomorrow and make a difference along the way. We champion the well-being of families through quality life insurance, unique member benefits and inspiring community activities.

The Foresters difference

• Foresters members are its customers

• Foresters members have a voice in the governance of Foresters

• Foresters shares its financial strength with more than 835,000 members through complimentary benefits¹ such as competitive scholarships and grants to support member-directed volunteer activities

• Foresters also shares its financial strength with communities and inspires others to do the same, by providing opportunities to support children's health and healthy family time through community service and volunteering

Family of Companies

• Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada , the Foresters Family of Companies operates in three countries through Foresters and its subsidiaries in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom Divisions

• Foresters US includes the following operating in the United States:

• Foresters, Foresters Equity Services, Inc⁴., a registered broker dealer, Foresters Financial Partners, Inc., an insurance agency, and First Investors Consolidated Corporation (“FICC”)

• FICC’s subsidiaries include a registered broker dealer, a registered investment advisor and a life insurance company.

• Foresters Canada includes Foresters operating in Canada and Foresters Life Insurance Company

• Foresters UK includes Forester Life Limited. It also includes Foresters, where Foresters provides member benefits to qualified Foresters UK insureds and annuitants

Executive Leadership

• George Mohacsi, President and Chief Executive Officer, Foresters

• Christopher Pinkerton, President, Foresters US Division

• Tony Poole, President, Foresters Canadian Division

• Euan Allison, Group Managing Director, Foresters UK Division

Financial strength

• For 11 consecutive years, Foresters has received an 'A' (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best³, an industry financial rating organization. A.M. Best’s independent rating assesses Foresters ability to pay claims and is an important measure of our strength and stability.

• Foresters Audited Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2010²:

• Assets: $6.3 billion

• Liabilities: $4.9 billion

• Surplus: $1.4 billion

Source: Foresters 2010 Financial Highlights

Products

The Foresters Family of Companies offers:

• In North America, a variety of life insurance, including individual term, whole life and universal life as well as annuities and investment products

• In the United Kingdom, a variety of saving, investment and protection products

Competitive scholarships

• Up to 350 competitive scholarships are awarded each year to eligible Foresters members or their dependent children in the US and Canada – a maximum of five may be chosen as Ken Peterson award winners for demonstrating exceptional leadership, extraordinary effort and significant ability to overcome adversity.

• For more information, visit our Membership page

Community Support

• Foresters invests in communities across North America and the UK through partnerships with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals®, KaBOOM!, Ronald McDonald House Charities®, Association of Children’s Hospices and CLIC Sargent , as well as hundreds of local and regional not-for-profit organizations focused on strengthening families.

• Through their local Branch, Foresters members apply for funding for their own community projects and also participate in Foresters organized activities such as playground builds.

• Foresters offers its members and its distribution partners opportunities to get involved in their communities through Foresters community initiative grants and funded community volunteer activities.

Contact us

Call	1 800 267 8777
Email	service@foresters.com

Foresters^TM is the trade name and the trademark of The Independent Order of Foresters (“Foresters”), a fraternal benefit society, 789 Don Mills Road, Toronto, Canada, M3C 1T9. Its subsidiaries are licensed to use this mark.
¹Foresters member benefits are non-contractual, subject to requirements, and limitations and may be changed or cancelled without notice.
²All figures in Canadian dollars.
³An "A" (Excellent) rating is assigned to companies that have a strong ability to meet their ongoing obligations to policyholders and have, on balance, excellent balance sheet strength, operating performance and business profile when compared to the standards established by A.M. Best Company. A.M. Best assigns ratings from A++ to F, A++ and A+ being superior ratings and A and A-being excellent ratings. In assigning the rating for Foresters on May 26, 2011, A.M. Best stated that the rating outlook is "stable", which means it is unlikely to change in the near future. See www.ambest.com for our latest ratings.
⁴Foresters Equity Services, Inc. Member FINRA, SIPC, 6640 Lusk Blvd., Suite A-202, San Diego, CA 92121 T. 858 550 4844, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Independent Order of Foresters.

Ronald McDonald House Charities, RMHC, Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald Family Room, and Ronald McDonald Care Mobile are all registered trademarks of McDonald’s Corporation or its affiliates and are used with permission.

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