Insular Life

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The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd.
Company type Mutual, limited liability [1]
Industry Life insurance
Founded Manila, Philippine Islands (November 25, 1910;113 years ago (1910-11-25)) [2]
FounderAntonio Ma. Barretto
(Founding President)
HeadquartersInsular Life Corporate Centre, ,
Key people
Nina Aguas
(Chairman)
Raoul Antonio Littaua
(President and CEO)
Services Life insurance, health insurance, investment fund, health care, bancassurance
RevenueDecrease2.svg₱18.2 billion [3]
Decrease2.svg₱3.14 billion [3]  (2020)
Total assets Increase2.svg₱148.7 billion [3]  (2020)
Total equity Decrease2.svg₱37.1 billion [3]  (2020)
OwnerPolicy holders
Number of employees
336 (2019)
Subsidiaries
  • Insular Health Care, Inc. (100%)
  • Insular Investment Corporation (100%)
  • Insular Life Management and Development Corporation (100%)
  • Unionbank of the Philippines (13.72%)
  • MAFPRE Insular Insurance Corporation (25%)
  • PPI Prime Venture, Inc.(30%)
[4]
Website www.insularlife.com.ph

The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. (commonly known by its trade name, Insular Life, and shortened as InLife) is a mutual life insurance company in the Philippines. Established on November 25, 1910 in Manila, it is the first Filipino life insurance company. [2] [5] The company offers individual and group life, health, education and retirement insurance plans. It provides allied financial services such as general insurance, banking, healthcare, lending and investment through subsidiaries and affiliate companies in its eponymous corporate group. [1] [6] Insular Life was once a member of the Ayala Corporation until 1987, when it became a mutual company owned by its policyholders. [7] [8] Its executive chairman of the board is Nina D. Aguas and its chief executive officer is Raoul Antonio E. Littaua. [9] [10] As of 2020, it is the tenth largest life insurer in the Philippines in terms of premium income, and fourth in terms of net worth. [11]

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History

1951 historical marker installed at Insular Life's original headquarters in Makati The Insular Life Assurance Company, Ltd. PHC historical marker.jpg
1951 historical marker installed at Insular Life's original headquarters in Makati

The firm was established as the first domestic life insurance company in the Philippines with Antonio Ma. Barretto as its founding President. Its first headquarters were located at the Lack and Davies Building in Manila's Echague district. In 1934, it inaugurated its first building in Binondo, Manila. Insular Life established an overseas branch in Honolulu in 1934, and its first district office in Cebu City in 1938. During the Second World War, the company continued operations and took over the business of the Filipinas Life Assurance Company. The Philippines business of the Occidental Life Insurance Company of California was acquired by the company in 1954. A few years later in 1958, it introduced industrial life insurance in the Philippines. [12]

Office Buildings

The former headquarters of Insular Life in Makati Ph-mm-makati-makati cbd-ayala ave.-paseo de roxas-insular life (2015) 01.JPG
The former headquarters of Insular Life in Makati

Muntinlupa

It is currently headquartered at the Insular Life Corporate Centre (ILCC) building in Filinvest City, Alabang, Muntinlupa. Designed by the Japanese firm, Takenobu Mohri Architects and Associates, the ILCC was inaugurated in 2001. The building is a two-tower structure connected by a podium, which houses a 500-seat auditorium.

Makati

Previously, it held its main corporate offices at the Insular Life Building in Makati. That building was built in 1962 and was the first to surpass the 30 meter height restriction in the Philippines. [13] It had a gently curving façade entirely covered by narrow vertical aluminium projections that were set close together within square modules to conceal the curtain wall behind it. [14] Originally designed by Cesar Concio, the building was controversially redeveloped in 2005 with a design by Takenobu Mohri Architects and Associates, and again in 2015 by Casas Architects. [15] [16]

Cebu City

It also maintains a corporate building at the Cebu Business Park designed by Jose Mañosa.

Corporate Group

Historical Marker in the corporate headquarters. Insular Life historical marker.jpg
Historical Marker in the corporate headquarters.

The members of the Insular group of companies as of 2020 are: [17]

Holding Company

Subsidiaries

Affiliates

Social Commitment

Former Subsidiaries and Affiliates

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