Pacific Islands · Oceania

Deseret Mutual Benefit (Samoa)

LLifeForeign multinationalPartially verified against the regulator register

Samoa licence LI1001. Register gives the address as the LDS Church, Pesega, Apia; ownership not researched.; Registered as Deseret Mutual Benefit; Ownership type inferred from name; parent not researched

Official sources

This directory holds no official website for Deseret Mutual Benefit (Samoa): the Central banks register does not publish one and no sourced profile has been accepted. The register is the authoritative record of who is licensed.

Class of business
LifeLong-term life assurance, annuities, pensions and savings products.
Parent / group
Parent not named in registerThe register records no parent for this entity, which is not a finding that it has none.
Ownership
Foreign multinationalSubsidiary of a multinational headquartered outside the continent.
Regulator
National central banks and insurance supervisors (Reserve Bank of Vanuatu, Central Bank of Solomon Islands and others) (Central banks)
Local currency
Various
Source basis
Four member-jurisdiction registers retrieved 23 Sep 2026: Central Bank of Samoa, Licensed Financial Institutions 2026 (updated April 2026) - 2 life + 5 general insurance companies; Cook Islands Financial Supervisory Commission, Insurers page - 1 Licence Category A insurer, 3 approved external insurers, 27 licensed captive insurers; Reserve Bank of Vanuatu, supervised financial institutions - 4 local insurance companies, 1 reinsurer, 3 international insurers, 1 external insurer, 4 captives; Central Bank of Solomon Islands, Financial System Infrastructure - 3 general insurers of which 1 also holds the life licence. Tonga: the National Reserve Bank of Tonga's own list of licensed financial institutions has no insurance category and the NRBT publishes no insurer register. Kiribati: neither MFED nor the Kiribati Financial Supervisory Authority publishes a licensee list.
Country verification
Partially verified - registers retrieved for 4 of the 6 member jurisdictions (Samoa, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands); Tonga and Kiribati publish no list of licensed insurers · Four member-jurisdiction registers retrieved 23 Sep 2026: Central Bank of Samoa, Licensed Financial Institutions 2026 (updated April 2026) - 2 life + 5 general insurance companies; Cook Islands Financial Supervisory Commission, Insurers page - 1 Licence Category A insurer, 3 approved external insurers, 27 licensed captive insurers; Reserve Bank of Vanuatu, supervised financial institutions - 4 local insurance companies, 1 reinsurer, 3 international insurers, 1 external insurer, 4 captives; Central Bank of Solomon Islands, Financial System Infrastructure - 3 general insurers of which 1 also holds the life licence. Tonga: the National Reserve Bank of Tonga's own list of licensed financial institutions has no insurance category and the NRBT publishes no insurer register. Kiribati: neither MFED nor the Kiribati Financial Supervisory Authority publishes a licensee list.
Identifiers
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