Unum Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides group and individual disability insurance products in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company operates through three segments: Unum US, Unum UK, and Colonial Life. It provides group long-term and short-term disability, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, individual disability, supplemental and voluntary products, and group and individual long-term care insurance products, as well as accident, sickness and disability products, life products, and cancer and critical illness products. The company also offers group pension, individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, and other product lines. In addition, it provides a portfolio of other insurance products, including life insurance, employer- and employee-paid group benefits, and other related services. The company markets its products primarily to employers interested in providing benefits to their employees. It sells its products through field sales personnel, independent brokers, and consultants, as well as independent contractor agency sales force. Unum Group was founded in 1848 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Unum collects insurance premiums from the above-mentioned business activities. If you were the Chief Investment Officer, how would you invest these premiums? What portion would you put in bonds versus stocks? What types of bonds or stocks would you choose?