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An Investment that. does not fluctuate in value-- Life Insurance WNERS of life insurance have had occasion b= year to year, the 44 million Metrop- recently to compare the stability of this form - of investment with that of even the highest grade ~ securities. A chart of the market price averages of leading stocks for twenty years shows an irregular line that rises and dips, sometimes vertically, with "peaks and valleys'. There are no "depres- sions' in the investment values of life insurance poli- cies. They do not fluctuate with business cycles. Daily Averages in 1929 2,233 per day, Claims Paid. 20,674 per day, Policies Issued and Revived. $11,137,296 per day in Amount of Life Insurance Issued, Revived and Increased. $2,026,714 per day in Payments to Policyholders and Addition to Reserve. $1,905,881 per day in New Investments, $1,039,881 per day in Increase of Assets. se rc a Business issued in Canada in 1929..... (Includes business revived and increased) 43,454,133 Provincial and Muni- cipal Bonds......... 77,551,547 All other Investments 68,294,757 Policies in force in Canada............ Payments to Canadian Policyholders te he Met Biter --tleads: PN as it dees in the World ¢ Ordinary, se. sees 5 - $121,831,635 Industrial>o-<7 eee, = - 82,838,381 Group... 2 Seer 3- 27,654,950 Business in force in Canada at end of . TA ei aie g ee aE RE Foe ae Ordmary (£12. . ....-¥s 439,689,064 Industriate...0c..:ts 331,469,334 Group #me- ....<22% oun 66,768,999 PAS So eeagelo sar po ame eon ddco é $232,324,966 947,927,397 | 189,300,437 2,739,358 15,967,379 Liabilities: Dividends to Policy- holders payable 19308 5 hee All other liabilities Unassigned Funds . AssetaWiva ieie-< ups ete $3,010,560,051.38 Statutory Reserve $2,625,110,967.00 - 82,264,508.86 125,743,543.37 177,441,032.15 $3,010,560,051.38 CANADIAN HEAD OFFICE: CTTAWA olitan Life Insurance policies show a steady increase in values to policyholders. The man who regularly invests part of his earnings in life insurance can go to sleep each night-vith the knowledge that he is building an estate of the greatest security and with a sure investment return for every dollar paid in. . Life insurance is an investment whose value. constantly increases the longer it is kept in. forcé. 4 Growth in Ten-Year Periods (Position at End of Year) Policies Insurance Year inForce Outstanding Assets "1879 12,823 $11,666,967 $2,022,482.45 1889 1,852,432 204,816,521 8,597,468.77 1899 4,980,704 800,531,009 51,070,840.74 1909 10,621,679 2,041,951,700 277,107,868.46 1919 21,914,120 5,343,652,434 864,750,023.88 1929 44,333,332 17,933,600,452 3,010,560,051.38 Financial Report to Policyholders for Year Ending December 31, 1929 Increase in Assets during Income injf92995. paren 818,682,519.99 miums payable weekly or nig hter rwdnhy) "ys + ofa 6,729,181,/23.00 SEUSS 2 75.270,134.78 Group Insurance... . 2'555,416,300.00 Paid-for Life Insurance Is- sued, Increased and Re- vived in 1929 Total Bonuses and Dividends to Policyholders from 1897 to and including 1930 . . $315,084,085.74 aes 3,374,600,626.00 529,705,988.65 Life Insurance Outstanding Ordinary Insurance . . . Industrial Total Insurance Outstanding 17, 933,600,452.00 Number of Policies in Force Principal Sum Benefit Weekly Indemnity ... . 13,928, 139.00 E Uncluding 1,442,240 Group Certificates) Accident and Health Insurance $8,649, 002, 429.00 Insurance (pre- 44,333,332 Outstanding . $1,190,131,574.00 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Nome Office NEW YORK Canadian Head Office: OTTAWA | ae FREDERICK H. ECKER President HENRY E. NORTH Third Vice-President and Manager for Canadq LEROY A. LINCOLN Vice-President and General Counsel This Company is a mutual organization. It has no stock and 'no stockholders. All of its assets are held for its Policyholders. Bee