Irish Life Assurance plc was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, operating in the financial services sector. The company serves over 1.6 million customers, representing more than 1 in 3 adults in Ireland. The company employs 3,000 employees, and its asset manager, Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM), manages assets exceeding €131 billion as of 31.12.2024.
Irish Life has been part of the Great-West Lifeco group of companies since 2013, one of the world's leading life assurance organisations. The company provides life and health insurance, pensions and investments to individuals as well as risk, defined contribution pension, health insurance and wellbeing solutions for employers and affinity groups. In 2018, the group acquired Invesco, the Republic's largest independent corporate pensions and investments consultancy, followed by acquisitions of other intermediaries including Acumen & Trust, APT financial advice companies and Harvest Financial Services, which were ultimately rolled into a stand-alone wealth management business in 2023 called Unio.
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Irish Life Assurance has appointed David McRedmond, the chief executive of An Post, to its Board of Directors. The company completed a €200 million redevelopment of its Dublin headquarters, designed to house up to 3,000 employees from Irish Life and its Canadian parent Great-West Lifeco's other businesses in Europe.
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