Company
Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRH) operates as a diverse financial services enterprise, offering a comprehensive suite of insurance, investment management, and other financial solutions to both individual clients and institutional entities. Its operations are structured into several core segments: PGIM, its various U.S. Business divisions, International Businesses, a Closed Block, and Corporate & Other activities. PGIM, the company's global investment management arm, delivers diverse investment strategies. These encompass public fixed income and equities, real estate investments (both debt and equity), private credit, various alternative assets, and multi-asset class approaches. It serves a worldwide clientele of institutional and retail investors, alongside managing the company's own general account. The U.S. Businesses division focuses on meeting American clients' needs across protection, retirement planning, savings, income generation, and investment. This broad segment is further subdivided into five specialized areas: Retirement, Group Insurance, Individual Annuities, Individual Life, and Assurance IQ. The Retirement unit offers investment and income solutions specifically designed for sponsors of retirement plans across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Group Insurance delivers various group-based protection products within the U.S., such as group life, short-term and long-term disability, and corporate, bank, and trust-owned life insurance. Its primary clientele consists of institutional clients utilizing these for employee benefit plans and affinity organizations. Individual Annuities creates and distributes both variable and fixed annuity products, primarily targeting affluent and mass affluent individual consumers in the United States. The Individual Life segment develops and offers various life insurance policies, including variable, term, and universal life, mainly to the mass middle, mass affluent, and affluent consumer segments across the U.S. Assurance IQ utilizes data science and advanced technology to distribute both third-party financial products and its own proprietary term life insurance directly to retail customers, primarily through digital platforms and agent networks. The International Businesses segment focuses on developing and distributing life insurance, retirement, and related financial offerings for affluent and mass affluent clients in countries like Japan, Korea, and other global markets, primarily through its "Life Planner" sales force. The Closed Block segment comprises existing participating insurance and annuity products, along with the dedicated assets used to fund associated benefits, expenses, and policyholder dividends. The Corporate and Other Operations segment encompasses corporate-level items and strategic initiatives that are not specifically assigned to the individual business segments. Established in 1875 by John Fairfield Dryden, the company's headquarters are located in Newark, New Jersey.
