Symetra Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides products and services to customers in the retirement, employment-based benefits, and life insurance markets in the United States and the District of Columbia. Its products include fixed deferred annuities; fixed indexed annuities; registered index-linked annuities; single premium immediate annuities; medical stop-loss insurance; group life and disability income insurance; absence management; group fixed-payment medical insurance; term life insurance; universal life insurance, including indexed universal life insurance; institutional life insurance comprising bank-owned life insurance; variable corporate owned life insurance; and group voluntary benefits, such as accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity. The company markets its products through financial institutions, broker-dealers, financial professionals, benefits consultants, and independent agents and advisors. The company was formerly known as Safeco Life & Investments and changed its name to Symetra Financial Corporation in September 2004. The company was founded in 1957 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. Symetra Financial Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sumitomo Life Insurance Company.