Wesleyan Assurance Society
Financial Services Mutual, serving Doctors, Dentists, Teachers and Lawyers.
Wesleyan Assurance Society is a financial services mutual that provides advice and products to select professional groups, notably GPs, hospital doctors, dentists and teachers.
The society was founded in Birmingham, England, in 1841 and its head office remains in the city centre – based at Colmore Circus.
The mutual reported £7.2 billion of assets under management for the financial year ending 31 December 2022.
History
Wesleyan was established in Birmingham during the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. It was founded in 1841 by members of the Wesleyan Methodist Church to help people overcome financial problems brought on by the first Industrial Revolution. The society began offering life assurance on a nationwide scale in 1855 and continued to grow in the late 1800s.
The Wesleyan and General Assurance Society Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. clxvii) gave the society a corporate identity of its own and allowed it more investment freedom.
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