Northwestern Mutual Ranked No. 1

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World’s
Most
Admired
Companies
Northwestern Mutual
Ranked No. 1 Insurance: Life and Health

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The World’s
Most
Admired
Companies
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HoW We ConduCt tHe survey
The Most Admired list is the definitive report card on corporate listed in the magazine: A company's score must rank in the top half of its
reputations. Our survey partners at Hay Group started with approxi- industry survey. Online, all companies' results are displayed.
mately 1,400 companies: the Fortune 1,000 — the 1,000 largest U.S. To arrive at the top 50 Most Admired Companies overall, the Hay
companies ranked by revenue; non-U.S. companies in Fortune's Global Group asked 4,100 executives, directors, and securities analysts who
500 database with revenue of $10 billion or more; and the top foreign had responded to the industry surveys to select the 10 companies they
companies operating in the U.S. admired most. They chose from a list made up of the companies that
They then sorted the companies by industry and selected the 15 ranked in the top 25% in last year's surveys, plus those that finished
largest for each international industry and the 10 largest for each U.S. in the top 20% of their industry. Anyone could vote for any company in
industry. A total of 673 companies from 32 countries were surveyed. any industry. The difference in the voting rolls is why some results can
To create the 57 industry lists, Hay asked executives, directors, and seem anomalous — for example, although FedEx is one of the top 10
analysts to rate companies in their own industry on nine criteria, from Most Admired Companies, it is second in the Delivery industry behind
investment value to social responsibility. This year only the best are top-ranked UPS, which ranked 30th on the top 50 overall.
NiNE kEy aTTRibuTEs of REPuTaTioN iNdusTRy: insurance: Life and Health
To arrive at each company's score on the Most Admired
industry rankings, we averaged the scores of Rank Company
these nine criteria:
1 Northwestern Mutual
Financial soundness 1 2 Prudential Financial
Quality of products/services 1 3 Aflac
Long-term investment 1 4 MetLife
use of corporate assets 1 5 new york Life Insurance
Quality of management 1 6 Massachusetts
People management 1 Mutual Life Insurance
social responsibility 1 7 AXA
Innovation 4 8 Manulife Financial
Global competitiveness 14 9 tIAA-CreF
From the March 21, 2011 issue and Fortune.com.
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