best Life Insurance Companies in the World by market cap

Rank	Company	Country	Market cap ($b, 6/07/2012)	Market cap ($b, 31/03/2011)
1	China Life Insurance (LFC)	China	82.14	94.68
2	Ping An Insurance	China	60.28	65.12
3	AIA Group	Hong Kong/China	43.26	37.01
4	Metlife	USA	32.40	47.2
5	China Pacific Insurance	China	30.43	30.96
6	Prudential plc	UK	28.90	28.83
7	ING	Netherlands	24.05	48.54
8	Prudential Financial	USA	22.42	30.02
9	Great West Lifeco	Canada	21.00	26.24
10	Generali	Italy	19.02	33.44
11	Aflac	USA	19.94	24.82
12	Manulife Financial	Canada	19.33	31.4
13	Power Financial	Canada	17.73	22.85
14	Samsung Life Insurance	South Korea	16.31	18.94
15	Sun Life Financial	Canada	13.09	17.82
16	Aviva	UK	13.01	19.57
17	Old Mutual	UK	11.71	11.73
18	Legal & General Group	United Kingdom	11.59	10.82
19	Dai-ichi Life Insurance	Japan	11.29	17.88
20	Cathay Financial	Taiwan	9.99	16.39
21	Sanlam	South Africa	9.28	8.22
22	Standard Life	UK	8.50	8.16
23	Aegon	Netherlands	8.39	14.21
24	T&D Holdings	Japan	7.29	9.75
25	Unum Group	United States	5.49	8.15
26	Korea Life Insurance	South Korea	4.89	5.86
27	Resolution	UK	4.40	6.61
28	Torchmark	USA	5.01	5.08
29	Reinsurance Group of America	USA	4.06	-
30	Swiss Life Holding	Switzerland	2.97	5.17

Note: The foreign exchange rate on July 6, 2012