New York Life Insurance Company, a mutual life insurance company, together with its subsidiaries, provides a range of insurance and investment products and services. The company offers life insurance, long-term care, insurance pension, and disability insurance products, as well as mutual funds. It also provides securities brokerage, financial planning, investment management and advisory, trust, and capital financing services, as well as fixed deferred and variable annuities.

In addition, the company invests in limited partnerships and limited liability companies, consolidated investment companies, equity investments, derivatives, securities purchased under agreement to resell, short-term investments, real estate, mortgage and other loans, and loans of various consolidated variable interest entities. New York Life Insurance Company offers its insurance and annuity products in the United States and its territories, Mexico, and Canada through its career agency force, as well as through third party banks, brokers, and independent financial advisors; and investment management and advisory services in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1845 and is based in New York, New York.