The Zurich Group Germany is one of the largest insurance companies in Germany and is part of the global Zurich Insurance Group. Today it is one of the 10 largest insurance companies in Germany (rank 4 in terms of premium income in the life insurance business, rank 8 in the property insurance business, and rank 3 in the industrial insurance business (2014)). Zurich is the most important provider in the area of fund-based pension provision and products for hedging biometric risks and works closely with the Deutsche Bank subsidiary DWS Investments in designing its fund-based life insurance products.