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Industrial Alliance is a Canadian insurance company with a diversified business ranging from wealth management to group pensions. It is a major player in the Canadian market where it serves three million people across the country and ranks fourth among insurance companies〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=B2B Trust signs distribution agreements with IAG for investment loands )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Industrial Alliance Announces Acquisition of U.S. Life Insurance Company )〕 however, the company has recently begun focusing on increasing its presence in the US market where it sees an opportunity for growth.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IA American Life Insurance (Industrial Alliance Insurance) to acquire American-Amicable Holding )〕 Its first major expansion into the US market happened in April 2010 when it purchased American Amicable Life Insurance of Texas for $145 million. In 2010, Industrial Alliance listed in Forbes Magazines "Global 2000" list of companies. ==History== The oldest parts of the current company, Industrial Life Insurance and Alliance Nationale merged in January 1987. In the 13 following years the new company made a number acquisitions, beginning with the National Life Assurance Company of Canada in 1988. The next addition was Quebec based The Solidarity followed by 87-year-old Seaboard life Insurance of Vancouver (eventually became Industrial Alliance Pacific). In 1999, the year before the company renamed itself Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services, wealth management company, Investia Financial Services was created. Then in February of the same year it demutualized and joined the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol IAG. Alliance Nationale This founding part of the present company was created at a meeting in Montreal's Saint Joseph's Church where the contributions of 74 people including its first president Sir Hormidas Laporte helped form a mutual aid society. In 1948 it became one of the first mutual life insurance companies in Canada Industrial Life Insurance Company The industrial life insurance company was started in 1905 by Mr. Bernard Leonard, whose family controlled the company from Quebec City until 1950, the year the company was taken over by Crédit Interprovincial Ltd. Four years after it mutualized, in 1973 the company acquired 2 general insurance companies that currently form Industrial Alliance's auto and home insurance division. Its last major move as a separate company was made in 1982 when it acquired Vancouver based West Life Assurance Company of Canada, a brand that eventually became its Industrial Alliance Pacific subsidiary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Industrial Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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