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The Maritime Financial Group provides
an umbrella of specialized financial services that satisfy
the diverse financial needs of existing and prospective Clients.
Maritime's highly trained team of Financial Advisors and Team Members ensure that our Clients are guided to select the best solution for life’s circumstances, including individual
and group life insurance, pensions, commercial and personal
lines of general insurance, finance, trust and leasing services,
and most recently retail services.
The developments made over the years are in keeping with the
innovative progressive and dynamic character of Maritime. The
Maritime Financial Group has earned its reputation for stability,
prudence and efficiency in the management of its Clients' affairs. It comprises a team of hard working, dedicated professionals
whose prime concern is delivering value to its Clients.
- April 1961: Maritime enters the financial market of Trinidad & Tobago as an agency of Maritime Life Assurance Company
of Halifax, Canada.
This was in response to Agents in another leading Canadian life insurance company
not willing to grant mortgages in Trinidad & Tobago. These Agents formed
the core of the new Maritime Life sales theme
- January 1972: marks a new era - for the first time in Trinidad & Tobago
a North American life insurance company "goes local" and
Maritime Life (Caribbean) Limited is born
- In 1977 Maritime Life became the first foreign life insurance
company to be locally controlled
- November 1978, a second subsidiary Maritime - INA General
Insurance Company Limited commences operations with an equal
partnership between Maritime Life and CIGNA and is renamed
Maritime General Insurance Company Limited in 1983
- June 1983: Maritime Life Assurance Company sells the balance
of its holding and total ownership passes into the hands
of Trinidad & Tobago nationals
- In 1985, the first payment of dividends to Maritime Life
shareholders is made
- Fidelity Finance and Leasing Company Limited, whose primary
focus is lending and medium and long term investment planning,
began operations in 1989 as a financial institution licensed
under the Financial Institution Act 1979
- Keystone Property Developers Limited's principal activity
is that of building, contracting and real estate development
and began operations in 1988
- Maritime Leasing Company Limited commenced operations in
1985 and handles all mall-related operations at the Maritime
Centre
- Nettletons Limited is a subsidiary handling the Group retail
operations, trading as Food Giant Supermarket, began operations
in 1998
- Construction and opening of the Maritime Centre in 1998
- The establishment of the Chaguanas, Marabella and Tobago Service Centres and the San Fernando Client Service
Centre in 1999
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The Maritime
Financial Group strongly supports and advocates controls
and
measures that eliminate the abuse of alcohol and other substances.
© 2004 The Maritime Financial Group
Last Updated: August 2008
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