1979 - Life of Georgia (Sold in 2004)

Life of Georgia insurance company was acquired by Nationale-Nederlanden in 1979, resulting in a considerable increase in activities in the United States.

1997 - Equitable of Iowa

Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa was founded in 1867 by 15 prominent citizens of Des Moines, Iowa. In 1888, co-founder F.M. Hubbell became president of the company. Many of his descendants would assume the same role, most recently Frederick S. Hubbell (1987), who retired as an Executive Board member of ING Group in 2006. Equitable of Iowa Companies has been part of ING since 1997.

1997 - Furman Selz

Furman Selz was founded in the U.S. in 1973 as a research-driven investment boutique. It was an employee-owned investment bank with offices throughout the United States and in London, Dublin and Tokyo. ING bought the company in 1997. Furman Selz's investment banking, securities brokerage activities and asset management activities were integrated into various ING businesses.

1998 - Clarion

Clarion Partners' predecessor-entity was established in 1982. This company provided private market real estate investment management services to institutional investors. Clarion became part of ING in 1998. ING Clarion is the U.S. investment management arm of ING Real Estate. It is one of the largest real estate investment managers in the world.

2000- ReliaStar

ReliaStar's predecessor Northwestern National Life Insurance Company (NWNL) was founded in 1885 in Minneapolis. Over the next 115 years it grew into one of the largest financial services companies in the U.S., offering life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, group insurance and reinsurance. In 1967, it purchased North Atlantic Life Insurance Company of Jericho, NY. In 1977, it acquired Northern Life Insurance Company of Seattle. These companies were unified under a single brand in 1995: ReliaStar. The company continued to grow by means of acquisitions, including Pilgrim Funds, a mutual funds business acquired in 1999. In 2000, ING Group acquired ReliaStar.

2000 - Aetna

Aetna Life Insurance Company was incorporated in Connecticut in 1853. From 1861 Aetna began to expand its product range turning the company into a multiple-line insurer. Throughout its history, Aetna often was an innovator. In 1912, it introduced the industry's first combination automobile policy, and in 1966 Aetna was the first to pay out a Medicare claim in the U.S. In order to focus mainly on health insurance, Aetna started selling parts of its business. In 2000, Aetna sold its financial services and international businesses to ING. Aetna Healthcare continued independently. The acquisition substantially enhanced ING's integrated financial services platform in the U.S.

2008 - ING Acquires CitiStreet

CitiStreet was one of the nation's largest retirement plan recordkeepers, offering a broad range of products and services for defined contribution, defined benefit and health and welfare plans of all sizes in all markets. The organization was founded in April of 2000 as a joint venture between Citigroup and State Street Corporation. The "Citi" in CitiStreet originated as H.C. Copeland and Associates in 1976. Copeland administered and serviced retirement plans initially in the education market and soon expanded into the government and healthcare market segments. The "Street" in CitiStreet dates back to the mid-1970s, offering recordkeeping, fiduciary, plan-consulting, investment-management, brokerage and communications services for 401(k), thrift, profit-sharing, 403(b), ESOP, LESOP, money and stock purchase plans and defined benefit pension plans. In 1994, the unit became Retirement Investment Services.