Guardian Life Recognizes David Simkowitz with Its Life Quality Business Award

Business Wire, Inc.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America (Guardian), one of the largest mutual life insurers and a leading provider of employee benefits, has recognized David Simkowitz, founder and president of SimkowitzCo in Brooklyn, New York for winning one of the highest and most coveted awards among Guardian’s 3,400 financial representatives – the Life Quality Business Award.

The Life Quality Business Award was developed to recognize the Guardian career agent who has generated the largest volume of persisting, proprietary individual life annual premium business over the past five calendar years. Mr. Simkowitz is only the second financial representative to win this prestigious award since its inception.

The award joins a long list of achievements for Mr. Simkowitz who has consistently been Guardian’s top-performing financial representative. He has also been cited for his extraordinary achievements during his tenure as President of the Executive Committee, the leader of Guardian’s financial representatives.

Recognizing Mr. Simkowitz’s latest achievement, Guardian’s Senior Vice President responsible for the individual life insurance profit center, Michael Ferik said: “David is totally dedicated to his clients and to the life insurance business. As a valued member of our life product committee, David is full of creative ideas and he has been instrumental in the development of our product portfolio.”

Commenting on his achievement and his award, Mr. Simkowitz said: “I attribute my success to being at one with my clients. By that I mean I do everything I can to find the issues that are of utmost importance to them and devise ways to deal with them. I also believe that having a company with a long history of solid financial performance like Guardian behind me is an enormous benefit, helping to build additional confidence and trust in my clients as they achieve their financial goals. At the end of the day persisting, successful, business comes from solving real problems for my high net worth clients, both in the present and for the long term.”

About SimkowitzCo

For more than a decade, SimkowitzCo has provided high net worth individuals and successful businesses with financial clarity and purpose. From estate planning to life insurance and wealth creation, SimkowitzCo helps its clients achieve their financial goals – whatever they may be. Over the years, David Simkowitz and his team have assisted high net worth clients with their financial needs. Yet clients rarely describe David as a financial services specialist. He is a friend. He is a confidante. He is a life and business strategist.

About Guardian

A mutual insurer founded in 1860, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and its subsidiaries are committed to protecting individuals, business owners and their employees with life insurance, disability income insurance, dental insurance products, and offer funding vehicles for 401(k) plans, annuities and other financial products. Guardian operates one of the largest dental networks in the United States, and protects more than six million employees and their families at 115,000 companies. The company has more than 5,000 employees in the United States and a network of over 3,400 financial representatives in more than 80 agencies nationwide.

For more information about Guardian, please visit: www.GuardianLife.com or http://www.linkedin.com/company/164085.