For more than 160 years, New York Life Insurance Company’s unwavering financial strength and time-tested investment strategies have provided consistent value and solid financial protection for our clients and their families. Since becoming the first American life insurance company to pay a cash dividend to policyholders in the mid–1800s, New York Life has continued to build a history of innovation—enhancing our existing product lines, creating new financial products, and maintaining a diversified portfolio to best accommodate our customers’ changing needs and lifestyles.