American National Insurance Company

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American National Group, Inc.
Company type Private
Industry
Founded1905;119 years ago (1905)
Headquarters One Moody Plaza
Galveston, Texas, U.S.
Key people
Ross Rankin Moody (chairman of the board)
Tim Walsh (president & CEO)
Products Insurance, annuities, mutual funds, Financial products
Revenue US$4.391 billion (2021) [1]
US$467.5 million (2020)
Total assets US$29.5 billion (2020)
Total equity US$6.6 billion (2020)
Owner Brookfield Asset Management Reinsurance
Number of employees
4,600 [2]  (2020)
Website americannational.com

American National Insurance Company (ANICO) is a major American insurance corporation based in Galveston, Texas. The company and its subsidiaries operate in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

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Company description

American National was founded in 1905 by Galveston businessman William Lewis Moody Jr. Today the company offers a wide array of insurance products and services including life insurance, annuities, health insurance, property and casualty insurance, credit insurance, and pension plan services. Through its subsidiary, ANREM, the company founded and developed the large-scale housing development, South Shore Harbour, in League City, Texas. [3]

Although a publicly traded company, the majority of the stock had been controlled by the Moody family through the Moody Foundation and Libby Shearn Moody Trust, which are administered by the trust department of the family owned Moody National Bank. [4] [5] [6] [7] In August 2021, Brookfield Asset Management announced that it had agreed to acquire ANICO for $5.1 billion. [8] The acquisition was completed in May 2022. [9]

Subsidiaries

Moody Plaza, American National Insurance's Home Office in downtown Galveston, Texas Moody Plaza in Galveston Texas.jpg
Moody Plaza, American National Insurance's Home Office in downtown Galveston, Texas
American National Insurance Company Building American National Insurance Company Building -- Galveston.jpg
American National Insurance Company Building

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