AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Members of ReliaStar Life Insurance Group

AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a+” of ReliaStar Life Insurance Company of New York (Woodbury, NY) and ReliaStar Life Insurance Company (Minneapolis, MN), collectively known as ReliaStar Life Insurance Group (ReliaStar). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. Both companies are life insurance subsidiaries of Voya Financial Inc., which is headquartered in New York, NY.

The ratings reflect ReliaStar’s balance sheet strength, which AM Best categorizes as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile, appropriate enterprise risk management and the financial strength and support of its parent, Voya Financial Inc.

Voya Financial Inc. ceased new individual life insurance sales as of Dec. 31, 2018, and sold its closed block variable annuity and individual fixed annuity segments in 2018. Voya has announced a planned 2020 sale of its individual life and other legacy non-retirement annuities business, including remaining fixed and variable annuities pension risk transfer liabilities, to Resolution Life US. ReliaStar still maintains a presence selling employee benefits insurance products.

The ratings of ReliaStar reflect its very strong risk-adjusted capitalization and generally favorable operating results. Voya Financial Inc. has had a strategy of exiting markets where it is less competitive or profitable.

ReliaStar’s strengths are offset partially by limited direct premium growth and a less-diversified business profile due to exiting markets via the sale of inforce life and annuity blocks.

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