{"id":521306,"date":"2021-08-02T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/assurant-closes-1-35-billion-sale-of-global-preneed-business\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:03:39","slug":"assurant-closes-1-35-billion-sale-of-global-preneed-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/assurant-closes-1-35-billion-sale-of-global-preneed-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!--.bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }body {font:normal small Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000;background-color:#fff;padding:24px;margin:0;} a img {border:0;} h3 {font-size:medium;color:#000;margin:0 0 1em 0; text-align:center;}-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"bwalignc\"><b>Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business<\/b><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.assurant.com%2Fhome&amp;esheet=52469458&amp;newsitemid=20210802005412&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Assurant%2C+Inc.&amp;index=1&amp;md5=87221fea447e669daba80accd82127e6\">Assurant, Inc.<\/a> (NYSE:AIZ), a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, today announced it closed the sale of its prearranged funeral insurance and final expense business, Global Preneed, and related legal entities and assets <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cunamutual.com%2F&amp;esheet=52469458&amp;newsitemid=20210802005412&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=to+CUNA+Mutual+Group&amp;index=2&amp;md5=f1992327dc78b3cb42af6eb283ce2a8f\">to CUNA Mutual Group<\/a>, a broad financial services provider, for approximately $1.35 billion in cash.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThis sale marks an important milestone in the transformation of Assurant, sharpening our focus on our market-leading lifestyle and housing businesses, and better positioning our company to capitalize on future growth opportunities emerging around the connected consumer,\u201d said Assurant CEO Alan Colberg. \u201cI want to thank all Global Preneed employees for their dedication to serving their two million policyholders and for building a business that will be a great strategic fit as a part of CUNA Mutual Group.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Global Preneed sale will generate approximately $1.2 billion of net proceeds. As previously disclosed, the company intends to return approximately $900 million of the net proceeds to shareholders through share repurchases within one year of closing. This is in addition to returning $470 million in 2021 via share repurchases and common stock dividends under the company\u2019s existing three-year, $1.35 billion capital return plan, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe company intends to invest the remainder of the net proceeds primarily in support of its connected world businesses, comprised of Connected Living, Global Automotive and Multifamily Housing, to enable long-term profitable growth and further strengthen its competitive position.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>About Assurant<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nAssurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ) is a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases. 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(NYSE:AIZ), a leading global provider of lifestyle and housing solutions that support, protect and connect major consumer purchases, today announced it closed the sale of its prearranged funeral insurance and final expense business, Global Preneed, and related legal entities and assets to CUNA Mutual Group, a broad financial services provider, for approximately $1.35 billion in cash. \u201cThis sale marks an important milestone in the transformation of Assurant, sharpening our focus on our market-leading lifestyle and housing businesses, and better positioning our company to capitalize on future growth opportunities emerging around the connected consumer,\u201d said Assurant CEO Alan Colberg. \u201cI want to thank all Global Preneed employees for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/assurant-closes-1-35-billion-sale-of-global-preneed-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/assurant-closes-1-35-billion-sale-of-global-preneed-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Assurant Closes $1.35 Billion Sale of Global Preneed Business NEW YORK&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Assurant, Inc. 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