Profile

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated is a holding company for a global life and health reinsurance entity based in Greater St. Louis within the western suburb of Chesterfield, Missouri, United States. With approximately $3.5 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of $76.7 billion as of December 31, 2019, RGA has grown to become the only international company to focus primarily on life and health-related reinsurance. General American Reinsurance, a reinsurance division formed in 1973 by General American Life Insurance Company , was the forerunner to RGA. By 1993, GA’s reinsurance division had grown its life reinsurance in force to $114.7 billion. General American acquired the life reinsurance business of National Reinsurance of Canada, later renamed General American Life Reinsurance Company of Canada, thereby establishing its first international office; the Canadian business became RGA Life Reinsurance Company of Canada after RGA's initial public offering .