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Equitable Holdings
Equitable Holdings, Inc. (formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, and also known as The Equitable) is an American financial services and insurance company that was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde.
In 1991, French insurance firm AXA acquired majority control of Equitable. In 2004, the company officially changed its name to AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company. In January 2020, it changed its name to Equitable Holdings, Inc. following its spinoff from AXA and the related public offerings beginning in May 2018.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States opened its headquarters at the Equitable Life Building in 1870 in the Financial District of Manhattan, with entrances facing Broadway, Pine Street, and Cedar Street. Aside from Henry Baldwin Hyde, who was president of Equitable, the firm's officers included James Waddell Alexander (vice president); George W. Phillips (actuary), who was Vice President of the Actuarial Society of America; and Samuel Borrowe (secretary), a member of a prominent New York family connected to the Hallett and Alsop families.
Between 1889 and 1891, Equitable built the Palais Equitable at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, today part of the Stephansplatz, in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria.
James Waddell Alexander was the company president at the time of the Hyde costume ball scandal in 1905. James Hazen Hyde, the son of the founder and a vice president of the company, was falsely accused through a media smear campaign initiated by Alexander and board directors E. H. Harriman, Henry Clay Frick and J.P. Morgan of charging a fabulous $200,000 Versailles-themed affair to the company. The repercussions rocked Wall Street and resulted in an investigation of the entire insurance industry by the New York State Legislature.
After the company's headquarters building burned down in 1912, Equitable erected the Equitable Building on the same site in Manhattan.
In 1943, during World War II, Equitable began underwriting policies for the War Agencies Employees Protective Association to provide group life insurance to U.S. Government employees working in or around war zones. Through WAEPA, Equitable sold policies to employees of some 40 U.S. agencies, including individuals from the Office of Strategic Services and War Information, which often sent their men behind enemy lines, and air-traveling statesmen and Congressmen. By May 1945, only 24 death claims had been filed (about half the normal peacetime rate for a group plan covering 7,000 workers), allowing the insurer to return roughly 30% of the premiums to WAEPA.
In 1954, following blockbusting in East Palo Alto, Equitable pursued a policy forbidding issuing mortgages to white families in integrated communities in order to make receiving government-insured mortgages more difficult in racially heterogeneous areas. This decision helped facilitate white flight and the resulting demographic shift of East Palo Alto.
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Equitable Holdings
Equitable Holdings, Inc. (formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, and also known as The Equitable) is an American financial services and insurance company that was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde.
In 1991, French insurance firm AXA acquired majority control of Equitable. In 2004, the company officially changed its name to AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company. In January 2020, it changed its name to Equitable Holdings, Inc. following its spinoff from AXA and the related public offerings beginning in May 2018.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States opened its headquarters at the Equitable Life Building in 1870 in the Financial District of Manhattan, with entrances facing Broadway, Pine Street, and Cedar Street. Aside from Henry Baldwin Hyde, who was president of Equitable, the firm's officers included James Waddell Alexander (vice president); George W. Phillips (actuary), who was Vice President of the Actuarial Society of America; and Samuel Borrowe (secretary), a member of a prominent New York family connected to the Hallett and Alsop families.
Between 1889 and 1891, Equitable built the Palais Equitable at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, today part of the Stephansplatz, in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria.
James Waddell Alexander was the company president at the time of the Hyde costume ball scandal in 1905. James Hazen Hyde, the son of the founder and a vice president of the company, was falsely accused through a media smear campaign initiated by Alexander and board directors E. H. Harriman, Henry Clay Frick and J.P. Morgan of charging a fabulous $200,000 Versailles-themed affair to the company. The repercussions rocked Wall Street and resulted in an investigation of the entire insurance industry by the New York State Legislature.
After the company's headquarters building burned down in 1912, Equitable erected the Equitable Building on the same site in Manhattan.
In 1943, during World War II, Equitable began underwriting policies for the War Agencies Employees Protective Association to provide group life insurance to U.S. Government employees working in or around war zones. Through WAEPA, Equitable sold policies to employees of some 40 U.S. agencies, including individuals from the Office of Strategic Services and War Information, which often sent their men behind enemy lines, and air-traveling statesmen and Congressmen. By May 1945, only 24 death claims had been filed (about half the normal peacetime rate for a group plan covering 7,000 workers), allowing the insurer to return roughly 30% of the premiums to WAEPA.
In 1954, following blockbusting in East Palo Alto, Equitable pursued a policy forbidding issuing mortgages to white families in integrated communities in order to make receiving government-insured mortgages more difficult in racially heterogeneous areas. This decision helped facilitate white flight and the resulting demographic shift of East Palo Alto.