Penn Mutual Sets 2020 Dividend Rate

Penn Mutual is a policyholder-owned mutual insurer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. The company has paid dividends to eligible policyholders every year since 1847.

“It is a remarkable achievement to be able to maintain our dividend scale in a low interest rate environment,” Eileen McDonnell, the company’s chairman, said in a statement about the 2020 dividend payout announcement.

Other mutual life insurers have also started announcing their 2020 dividend rates or payout amounts.

• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company said it expects to cut its dividend rate to 6.2%, from 6.4%, and pay $1.7 billion in dividends.
• New York Life Insurance Company said it expects to increase the amount of dividends paid 5.6%, to $1.9 billion.
• Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company said it expects to hold the dividend interest rates it uses to calculate 2020 dividends steady at 5%, and to pay $5.6 billion in dividends.

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