The following is being released by Susman Godfrey LLP and Hausfeld LLP.

There is a Settlement with Barclays Bank that impacts individuals and institutions that entered into over-the-counter financial derivative and non-derivative instruments directly with Barclays or a Non-Settling Defendant that received payments tied to U.S. Dollar LIBOR. Barclays and the Non-Settling Defendants are U.S. Dollar LIBOR Panel Banks. Please visit www.BarclaysLiborSettlement.com for the list of Defendants. The instruments include certain interest rate swaps, forward rate agreements, asset swaps, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, inflation swaps, total return swaps, options, and floating rate notes.

The litigation claims that the banks manipulated the U.S. Dollar LIBOR rate during the financial crisis, artificially lowering the rate for their own profit, which resulted in purchasers receiving less interest payments for their U.S. Dollar LIBOR-based instruments from the banks as they should have. Plaintiffs assert antitrust, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment claims. Barclays denies all claims of wrongdoing.

Individuals and institutions are included in the Settlement if they:

• Directly purchased certain U.S. Dollar LIBOR-based instruments;
• From Barclays or any Non-Settling Defendant (or their subsidiaries or affiliates);
• In the United States; and
• Owned the instruments at any time between August 2007 and May 2010.

The Settlement will create a $120 million Settlement Fund that will be used to pay eligible Class Members who submit valid claims. Additionally, Barclays will cooperate with the Plaintiffs in their ongoing litigation against the Non-Settling Defendants.

Class Members must submit a Proof of Claim, online or by mail, by December 21, 2017 to get a payment. They are entitled to receive a payment if they have a qualifying transaction with Barclays or a Non-Settling Defendant. At this time, it is unknown how much each Class Member who submits a valid claim will receive.

Even if they do nothing, Class Members will lose the right to sue Barclays for the alleged conduct and will be bound by the Court’s decisions concerning the Settlement. This Settlement will not result in a release of claims against any Non-Settling Defendant, and the litigation against Non-Settling Defendants is ongoing. If Class Members want to keep their right to sue Barclays, they must exclude themselves from the Settlement Class by October 9, 2017. If they stay in the Settlement Class, they may object to the Settlement by October 9, 2017.

The Court will hold a hearing on October 23, 2017 to consider whether to approve the Settlement and approve Class Counsel’s request of attorneys’ fees of up to one-third of the Settlement Fund, plus reimbursement of costs and expenses. Class Members or their lawyers may appear and speak at the hearing at their own expense.

For more information, please visit www.BarclaysLiborSettlement.com, or call 1-888-568-7640.

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I Squared Capital, an independent global infrastructure investment manager, has signed an agreement, through its ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund II, to acquire a 100 percent interest in Hutchison Global Communications Investment Holding Limited (HGC) from Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH) for approximately HKD14.5 billion. The transaction is expected to close by October 2017.

HGC is a leading fixed-line service provider to fixed and mobile carriers, OTT service providers, corporate and business, residential and data centers in Hong Kong and around the world. Its over 1.4-million-kilometer fiber network connects to over 14,200 buildings and it is also one of Hong Kong’s largest-scale Wi-Fi service providers with over 25,000 Wi-Fi hot spots. The company’s extensive international network has four highly prized land routes into mainland China. The company extends its global reach into different continents through multiple submarine and terrestrial cable systems. Much of HGC’s revenue is under long-term contracts to a diverse base of customers, including the major mobile providers in the region.

Commenting on the acquisition, Gautam Bhandari, Partner at I Squared Capital, said: “As a premier global hub for commerce and telecommunications, Hong Kong benefits from innovative products and world class services. With I Squared Capital’s investment, HGC will continue to provide the same quality of service that mobile telecommunication providers, corporate and residential customers have come to expect. Fresh capital will also enable the company to develop new solutions to meet the ever-increasing demand for high-speed information infrastructure throughout the region and beyond.”

About HGC Group: The HGC Group is a leading fixed-line operator, IT service provider, carrier’s carrier and one of Hong Kong’s largest-scale Wi-Fi service providers. The HGC Group empowers local and overseas customers with one-stop international, carrier, corporate, data centre and residential broadband services. The HGC Group owns and runs an extensive optical-fibre network, coupled with four cross-border routes integrated with three of mainland China’s tier-one telecoms operators, plus a world-class international network. The HGC Group is committed to developing cloud computing services and offering high-speed Wi-Fi service under the “HGC On Air“ brand. HGC is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (stock code: 215), a group member of CK Hutchison Holdings (stock code: 1).

About I Squared Capital: I Squared Capital is an independent global infrastructure investment manager focusing on energy, utilities, and transport in the Americas, Europe, and select high growth economies. The Firm has offices in New York, Houston, London, New Delhi, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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GA Telesis and Tokyo Century Corporation announced today the launch of a new technology engine financing initiative focusing on a select group of new technology jet engines. GA Telesis has been an industry leading engine lessor since its inception in 2002 and has consummated well over 1,000 engine transactions. The new joint initiative will enhance GA Telesis’ current technology engine leasing business by implementing a more competitive cost of capital for longer-term and more structured transactions.

The target portfolio will consist of the following engine models: General Electric GEnx, Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 and Trent XWB, Pratt & Whitney GTF and CFM International LEAP engines. GA Telesis and Tokyo Century are targeting the origination and closing of $1 billion new-technology engine transactions over the next 24 months.

“This is an unprecedented time in the history of aviation where each engine manufacturer is delivering a new technology engine simultaneously," said Abdol Moabery, President & CEO of GA Telesis. “With over ten thousand new-technology engines in the backlog, we are prepared to help our airline customers by providing them a customized financing solution to meet their needs,” he added.

“As a company that has built a global reputation for its leasing products, the initiative will continue to define Tokyo Century Corporation’s commitment to the aviation industry,” said Koichi Nakajima, Deputy President, Director and Executive Officer of Tokyo Century Corporation. We are very enthusiastic about the market’s demand for leasing products such as this and we are committed to growing this,” he added.

About GA Telesis

GA Telesis is a global provider of integrated aviation solutions serving the aerospace industry. The Company helps its customers achieve higher levels of performance by creating custom-tailored, multi-faceted solutions integrating its financial asset structuring expertise with component supply chain solutions, jet engine, aircraft systems and aerostructures MRO services. GA Telesis serves over 2,000 customers on six continents supporting all Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Embraer aircraft as well as CFM International, General Electric, International Aero Engines, Pratt & Whitney, and Rolls-Royce jet engines.

About Tokyo Century Corporation

Tokyo Century Corporation is a highly specialized and unique financial services company that pioneers new business fields combining finance, services and business expertise, working alongside customers in pursuit of their growth and goals. Through its four core businesses (Equipment Leasing, Specialty Financing, Domestic Automobile Financing, and International Business) Tokyo Century seeks to provide solutions that help increase the corporate value of customers. The Company is a 20% shareholder of GA Telesis.

For further information: please contact: marketing@gatelesis.com

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Today Visa (NYSE:V) announced its support of the new global QR Code Payment Specifications from EMVCo, the global technical body that manages the EMV Specifications. The specifications cover consumer-presented and merchant-presented QR code use cases for digital payment acceptance. QR codes are two-dimensional machine-readable barcodes, used to facilitate mobile payments at the point-of-sale.

Visa and the other EMVCo Members worked to develop these new globally interoperable EMV specifications. Visa has already successfully enabled the merchant-presented QR technology in 15 countries around the world, with India, Kenya and Nigeria currently live in market with both bank and merchant partners.

“We’ve already seen tremendous progress towards adoption of standardized, interoperable QR code payment systems in the developing world,” said Sam Shrauger, SVP, Digital Products, Visa. “We are working with governments and central banks in countries like India to develop and implement QR code payment solutions that provide the convenience and security that are synonymous with Visa and help the journey toward a cashless future.”

Easy Implementation for Merchants

Visa has enabled the growth of merchant-presented QR code payments around the world with its innovative mobile payments solution, mVisa. mVisa allows consumers to pay for goods and services by scanning a QR code on a smart phone or entering a merchant number into their feature phones. Payment goes straight from the consumer’s Visa account into the merchant’s account and provides real-time notification to both parties. mVisa is completely interoperable, meaning that the consumer and the merchant do not need to be customers of the same bank. This brings the same convenience, security and reliability provided by the trusted Visa brand.

For merchants eager to harness the power of QR code payments, the Visa Ready Program has adopted the interoperable QR standards to develop tools and capabilities which help easy generation and deployment of QR code merchants by banks, processors and merchant aggregators. Once enrolled, merchants can freely accept payments from any country or bank given mVisa’s interoperability while trusting Visa will securely and efficiently process each transaction.

QR Code Payments Driving a Cashless Future

As digital payments help continue a shift toward a cashless future, this new global specification is an important step that promotes interoperability and standardizes the fast growing ecosystem of QR code payments across the world. Already, 33 banks and more than 328,000 merchants across India, Kenya and Nigeria have adopted the interoperable standards as they accelerate their QR code digital payment programs.

“mVisa enables successful completion of the transaction independent of the mobile operator service on both the consumer and the merchant’s phone, and the consumers and merchant’s banks,” said Shrauger. “This addresses a major challenge with mobile money programs, and lets consumers and merchants choose their own bank or mobile operator.”

Reserve Bank of India has encouraged the adoption of standardized QR code payments to provide access to low-cost, secure digital payments to millions of consumers and merchants. Working with our partners, Visa is converting both everyday and recurring cash purchases to digital payments through direct integrations with supermarket chains and large utility billers. By presenting dynamic QR codes to consumers that provide a seamless payment experience, billers such as Tata Sky, Idea Cellular, Reliance Energy, Mahanagar Gas, as well as Pizza Hut and supermarket chains Nakumatt, Spar, and Zucchini, are bringing benefits of digital payments to millions of potential customers.

Visa intends to replicate this success in 12 other countries where mVisa has been enabled: Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda and Vietnam.

About Visa

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the world’s most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid or pay later with credit products. For more information, visit https://usa.visa.com/ and @VisaNews.

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Swiss Market Maker & Securities AG is a source of data in the Private Equity environment. This company publishes quotes and market data regarding the instruments traded at over-the-counter markets through recognized market data systems.

OTC (over-the-counter) Rate Notifications

The valuation rate is fixed daily. While the exchange rate may be the same with the closing rate, it is often calculated using the last sales.

Quotes and market data provide parameters and guiding information for depositors and investors.

With our offers that we make through publication, you can reach millions of people actively following the events on financial markets. The information is sent to the exact target group, i.e. depositors, consultants, marketing organizations, and all people that are professionally or privately interested in the financial sector.

In addition to its vision to become a leading company in the international OTC market, Swiss Market Maker & Securities AG also tries to achieve greater objectives.

Financial Revolution– Blockchain

The 21^st-Century trading has begun. The new technological development called Blockchain will radically transform the financial industry.

The Blockchain, or in other words, the “Internet of the Values” transports the cryptocurrency papers and securities directly from User to User. Transactions can be executed over the Internet at any time desired, independent of the country and banks. Blockchain allows for seamless execution of transactions among participants without any intermediary.

New markets are opened. Securities can now be traded from anywhere on the world for the first time in the history of finance. Thus, the investors in Asia can easily invest in the European companies and the investors in Europe in the companies in Asia as well.

The process of transfer of values through banks used as intermediaries has been the same for over 150 years. Blockchain can change it completely. The execution of transactions and transfer of values doesn’t take days any longer; and are completed in just a few minutes.

As one of the first information service companies, the Swiss Market Maker & Securities AG transfers real financial data to the emerging crypto-market.

We have decided to convert some of our shares into Blockchain securities in order to realize our visions and to promote the Blockchain based on NEM technology.

Further information is available on our website at:

www.SwissMarketMaker.com and www.PrivateEquityQuote.com

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GA Telesis announced today the launch of a specialty finance unit, Structured Credit Products (SCP) to focus on structured financial solutions for airline, MRO, and OEM customers. The initial focus strategy will be inventory leasing. Going forward SCP will explore other aviation finance products including originated secured lending, trading in public and private debt, and investments in other aviation related financial instruments. SCP will be led by Stuart Weinroth, Vice President, an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in the aviation finance and leasing sector.

The initial SCP growth initiative will be enhancing the Company’s existing inventory leasing platform with a three-year capital allocation of $1 billion towards providing enhanced inventory leasing solutions to airlines around the globe. The forthcoming transition into new-technology narrowbody and widebody aircraft types has put a significant capital investment burden on operators to procure spare parts to support essential operations. GA Telesis’ innovative inventory leasing product provides medium to long-term financing under a lease structure, allowing airlines complete operational flexibility for a fixed monthly rent amount. GA Telesis has been an industry leader in the aircraft and engine parts market since its inception in 2002 and has consummated billions in parts sales over the past 15 years. GA Telesis pioneered the inventory leasing product to address the increasing capital needs of the evolving global commercial airline sector to support new aircraft deliveries.

SCP will focus on spare parts related to Boeing 787 and 737MAX and Airbus A350 and A320NEO families of aircraft; however, lease opportunities for equipment related to other aircraft types will also be considered. GA Telesis has already closed and has financing commitments for over $200 million of inventory leases and expects to close over $800 million of new opportunities over the next 36 months.

“This is an unprecedented time in the history of aviation where all of the aircraft manufacturers are delivering new technology aircraft and engines across four aircraft families simultaneously,” said Abdol Moabery, President & CEO of GA Telesis. “With over 8,700 new technology 787, 737MAX, A350, and A320NEO aircraft in the current back-log, we are prepared to help our airline customers by providing them a customized financing solution to meet their inventory provisioning needs,” he added.

Earlier this week, GA Telesis, along with its shareholder Tokyo Century Corporation announced an additional $1 billion joint initiative for the financing of new-technology jet engines, including, but not limited to certain LEAP, the GTF, the GEnx and Trent models.

For further information: please contact: marketing@gatelesis.com

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• Toppan Printing Co. Ltd, Japan (Toppan) has become a joint venture partner in Max Speciality Films Limited (MSFL) by acquiring a 49% stake in the company on a fully diluted basis through a mix of secondary sale by MaxVIL and primary share issuance by MSF. MaxVIL has transferred 35.84% equity of MSFL for INR 145.41 crore to Toppan. In addition, MSFL has issued and allotted 13.16% equity share to Toppan for INR 53.36 crores.
• MSFL is undergoing a capacity expansion by setting up an additional Line for manufacture of BOPP films (Line 5), with a capital investment of Rs. 250 crores. This line will increase production capacity from 45,000 tonnnes per annum to 75,000 tonnes per annum. Line 5 is expected to commence commercial production in first quarter of FY 2019.

• Villa Development Project (Dehradun, Uttarakhand): MEL’s inaugural project on Rajpur Road at Dehradun (Uttarakhand) comprises luxury, bespoke villas. MEL has pre-sold 20% of inventory prior to formal launch of the project. The project is likely to completed and delivered to its customers during second quarter of FY 2018-19.
• Commercial Tower at NCR: A commercial tower project, called Max Towers, with a total developable area of 6,00,000 sqft. on a land parcel of 3,352 sqmt. has been acquired by MEL through a SPV. Some floorplate of Max Towers has been purchased by various Max Group entities. The project is strategically located on Delhi-Noida-Delhi expressway (DND), near South Delhi, and is part of a larger project - Delhi 1. Upon completion, Max Towers is envisioned to become the most admired office development in Delhi - NCR.
• Office Space redevelopment - Okhla, New Delhi: MEL, subject to necessary approvals, has an opportunity to redevelop an industrial plot with 1,40,000 sq. ft. of developable area at Okhla Phase 3 (South Delhi) under an asset light model of development. The project is likely to commence during next quarter of FY 2018 and will be completed in 36 months. 

• Investment in Azure Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. (Azure): MaxVIL made investment in Azure, which owns and operates Mamagoto, a mid-scale casual dining restaurant chain and Speedy Chow/Roll Maal, a quick service restaurant (QSR) format for Indian & Chinese street food and an Institutional Catering Service. Azure Hospitality has also acquired the ‘Dhaba’ brand which is a fine dining north Indian cusine restaurant. MaxVIL has recently invested an additional Rs. 37 crore as a part of the second round of fund raising by Azure for its expansion in domestic and international markets.
• Investment in FSN E-Commerce Ventures Private Limited (FSN): MaxVIL acquired approx. 2% equity stake, at fully diluted basis in FSN. The company is engaged in selling cosmetic products and personal and homecare accessories in India through an e-commerce and offline retail platform called ‘Nykaa’.

Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE:TARO) announced today that it plans to release its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, after the close of market on Tuesday, August 8, 2017. Consistent with the Company’s policy, Taro will conduct its next earnings call when it announces its financial results for the six months ending September 30, 2017.

The release will be accessible on Taro’s website at www.taro.com.

About Taro

Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is a multinational, science-based pharmaceutical company, dedicated to meeting the needs of its customers through the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of the highest quality healthcare products. For further information on Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., please visit the Company’s website at www.taro.com.

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Khushru Jijina – Managing Director, Piramal Finance

• Piramal Finance ranked 4^th in the Great mid-size Workplaces
• The survey identified Piramal Finance for creating a culture of high performance and employee benefit

• 93% employees felt pride in the company and looked forward to coming to work
• 95% agreed to a strong sense of family and community in the organization – camaraderie
• 96% of employees believe in the integrity of their management and that it is honest and ethical in its business practices

• Allow cloud services to seamlessly fit into existing enterprise network architecture;
• Act as an extension of the enterprise wide-area network (WAN), enabling remote employees and partners to connect to cloud-based applications in a secure manner;
• Extend the flexibility of the cloud model to network services so that network resources can scale as required; and
• Help enterprises take advantage of increased application performance resulting from improvements through network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN). 

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Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:7272)(ISIN:JP3942800008) announced today that in the first half of its fiscal year ending December 31, 2017, consolidated net sales of 828.1 billion yen were up 6.4% from the previous year. The company achieved all-time highs in operating income of 82.2 billion yen (up 25.7%), ordinary income of 83.5 billion yen (up 51.1%), and net income for the period attributable to parent company shareholders of 60.8 billion yen (up 87.5%).

In emerging markets, motorcycle sales rose and operating income was significantly higher thanks to sales of higher priced products and cost reductions due to the advancement of platform-based products. In developed markets, motorcycles, marine, industrial machinery & robot products and electrically power-assisted bicycles contributed to increased sales and income.

Motorcycle net sales rose 6.6%, supported by brisk business in emerging markets, and operating income soared 86.8% due to a more competitive product mix and lower costs. Marine business net sales rose 5.5% on the strength of outboard motor sales in North America. Power products declined 4.0% but industrial machinery and robots climbed 30.4%, boosted by surface mounter unit sales. Drive units for electrically power-assisted bicycles surged in Europe.

For the year, Yamaha Motor forecasts net sales rising 8.5% to 1,630.0 billion yen, operating income rising 24.3% to 135.0 billion yen, and net income attributable to parent company shareholders rising 42.5% to 90.0 billion yen. All figures have been upwardly revised from initial forecasts. The full-year dividend forecast has been raised to 78 yen, up 18 yen from the previous year.

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About Yamaha Motor

Yamaha Motor (TOKYO:7272) is a world-leading producer of motorcycles, marine products, power products and intelligent machinery. The company’s diverse business and wide variety of products are built around its proprietary technologies focused on engines, chassis & hull and electronic control. Yamaha Motor conducts global development, production and marketing operations through 140 subsidiaries and equity-method affiliates in 30 countries. About 90% of consolidated net sales are generated in more than 200 countries outside of Japan. The company is steadily restructuring its global engineering, manufacturing and marketing capabilities for sustainable long-term growth. Please visit https://global.yamaha-motor.com/ir/report/.

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• Vivifi is looking to raise INR 100 crore
• The Indian Lending Business Size is put at $ 1.2 Trillion

Andersen Global announces a presence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by way of a Collaboration Agreement with Branco Consultores, a tax and legal firm. The addition of Branco Consultores demonstrates Andersen’s growing presence in Latin America. Andersen Global has an existing presence in São Paulo and Campinas through Andersen Tax in Brazil, a member firm that joined in August of 2015.

The Branco Consultores team is led by Rubens Branco, who founded the firm in 2001. “Our goal is to provide seamless solutions to our clients globally, and collaborating with Andersen Global will allow us to better meet their increasingly international and complex needs,” said Rubens. “In addition, for us, there is nothing more valuable than being a most trusted resource for our clients. We recognize that Andersen Global shares our same commitment to outstanding, best-in-class service.”

Branco Consultores provides tax, legal and accounting services to both Brazilian and global corporations and individuals, including tax planning, negotiations, international operations, corporate restructuring, tax reviews, and transfer pricing.

“Rubens was one of the first tax partners at Arthur Andersen in Latin America. He has had a premier practice in Rio for decades,” commented Andersen Tax CEO, Mark Vorsatz. “In addition, he is truly a steward of the business as evidenced by his son, Daniel, also being a partner in the firm.”

Andersen Global has more than 2,000 professionals worldwide and a presence in 70 locations through its member firms and collaborating firms.

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• Revenues¹: Rs. 2,560 Cr., grew 15%
• New Sales: Rs.  554 Cr., grew 18%
• Solvency Surplus: Rs. 1,953 Cr.; Solvency Ratio: 295%

About Max Group

The Max Group is a leading Indian multi-business conglomerate with a commanding presence in the Life Insurance, Health & Allied businesses and packaging sectors. In FY2017, the Group recorded consolidated revenues of Rs. 16,798 Cr. It has a total customer base of 9 million, nearly 240 offices spread across India and people strength of 22,500 as on 31st March 2017. The Group’s investor base includes marquee global financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, KKR, IFC Washington, Vanguard, Ward Ferry, New York Life, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Temasek and Wasatch.

The Max Group comprises three holding companies, namely Max Financial Services, Max India and Max Ventures & Industries.

About Max Financial Services Limited

Max Financial Services Limited (MFS), a part of the US$ 3 billion Max Group, is the parent company of Max Life, India’s largest non-bank, private life insurance company. MFS actively manages a majority stake in Max Life Insurance Company Limited, making it India’s first listed company focused exclusively on life insurance. Max Life is a joint venture with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (MSI), a Japan headquartered global leader in life insurance.

About Max Life Insurance

Max Life Insurance offers comprehensive long term savings, protection and retirement solutions through its high quality agency distribution and multi-channel distribution partners. A financially stable company with a strong track record over the last 17 years, Max Life Insurance offers superior investment expertise. Max Life Insurance has the vision 'To be the most admired life insurance company by securing the financial future of our customers'. The company has a strong customer-centric approach focused on advice-based sales and quality service delivered through its superior human capital.