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We are Aviva. We are building insurance around you ®

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We are Aviva.

We arebuilding insurance

around you®

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You may be thinking,“ Who is Aviva?”

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But while that may explain what we are, it doesn’t describe who we are.Who we are is a new kind of insurance company: one that combines a rich history with a unique philosophy we call YoumanitySM. Youmanity is a movement to bring humanity back to life insurance. It’s about putting people before policies.

The life insurance policy or annuity you’re about to purchase is about more than just financial needs. It’s about the family you love and want to provide for. It’s about the retirement years you want to spend enjoying life. It’s about all the things you want to pass along to the next generation.

These are the things you think about every day, so these are the things we think about every day.

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Good question.We could answer by telling you we are the oldest operating insurance group in the world. Or even that we are the sixth largest insurance group in the world.1 Or that we are a leading provider of life insurance and annuities in the U.S.

1 Based on gross worldwide premium as of December 31, 2009.

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You are at the center of everything we do.

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If this doesn’t sound like an insurance company, then we are already succeeding.Aviva doesn’t just sell insurance products: We create and provide solutions to life’s changing needs.

Aviva is building insurance around the idea that every individual counts. In a world of “me first” thinking, we’re putting our customers at the center of everything we do so that we can better understand your unique needs — and deliver on them.

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• Who are you?

• What do you need and want?

• How do you envision life in 5, 10, or 25 years?

• What’s really important to you?

To build insurance around you, we first want to get to know you:

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Life insurance is about life, your life. It’s about how you want to live your life right now and 20 years from now. It’s also about how your loved ones will live when you’re gone.

Aviva’s innovative life insurance products offer tremendous value and versatility. We offer term products with affordable death benefits, permanent life policies that provide lifetime guarantees, and indexed universal life policies that allow you to build cash value for retirement and other life events.

And since it’s your future, we’ve made sure our life insurance policies have many options so they can be customized for you, your family and your life.

One of those options is our exclusive Wellness for Life Rider®

You save money on your car insurance for being a good driver, so why shouldn’t you save money on your life insurance for taking care of yourself?

The first of its kind in the life insurance industry, Aviva’s Wellness for Life rider is designed to help you realize the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle. Wellness for Life provides you access to wellness information services from Mayo Clinic Health Solutions that may help maintain or improve your health. And by meeting certain qualifications, you will receive Wellness Rewards®, which reduce the cost of your insurance.

Why life insurance?

What’s right for you?

We offer a broad range of life insurance and annuity products to meet the diverse and changing needs of our customers. You can count on your Aviva agent to work with you to select the best option.

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An annuity is a long-term retirement savings product that can help protect you from outliving your money. It’s a contract between you and an insurance company. When you put money into an Aviva deferred annuity, you create something that can grow over time and then, at a later time, can pay you an income for a period of time, even for a lifetime.

And since it’s your money, we’ve made sure our annuities have many options so they can be customized for you, your family and your life.

One way to customize your annuity is with an optional income rider.Available on most of our annuity products, our optional income riders are designed with guaranteed lifetime income.

Fewer employers offer traditional defined benefit pension plans that many Americans used to rely on for retirement. And while Social Security may provide some income, you can’t depend on it to supply all your retirement needs. The bottom line: People like you are more responsible for your retirement than previous generations.

You insure your home, your car, your valuables and even insure your life. Why not insure your retirement income?

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Why an annuity?

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At Aviva, there is only one way to deliver prosperity and peace of mind for our customers: responsibly, sustainably and with integrity.

That’s why we’re proud to say that:

• Aviva USA is one of only 11 U.S. life and health insurance companies to carry an A rating by A.M. Best continuously for at least the past 75 years. Aviva USA and its predecessor companies have maintained at least an A rating continuously since 1929.

• None of Aviva’s U.S. based companies needed or accepted government bailout money during the 2008-09 financial crisis.

Financial services companies, including insurance carriers, are rated by independent agencies for their financial strength. This helps the public determine which companies can best meet their obligations and should garner the most trust.

As you can see, these agencies give Aviva USA and its issuing companies high marks for the stewardship of the assets our policyholders place in our care.

While the numbers and ratings indicate a financially stable company, we measure fiscal success by how we meet our obligations — to our nearly 1 million policyholders, their beneficiaries, and the customers joining our family every day.

Our stability is your stability.

*No Moody’s rating has been assigned to Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York.

Aviva USA ratingsA.M. Best

A (Excellent) for financial strength, the third highest of 15 rating classes

Standard & Poor’sA+ (Strong), the fifth highest of 21 rating classes

Moody’s Investors Service*

A1, the fifth highest of 21 rating classes

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Aviva Life and Annuity Company2

Aviva Life and Annuity Company of NY2 Total

Total assets $45,603 $1,542 $47,145

Policyholder reserves $39,411 $1,388 $40,799

Other liabilities $3,836 $46 $3,882

Capital and surplus $2,356 $108 $2,464

Gross premium $7,195 $168 $7,363

Aviva USA invested assets1

(As of December 31, 2010)

1 Amounts measured on the basis used to prepare the Company’s Statutory Annual Statements.2 Each individual company is solely responsible for the policy benefits and obligations to its

policyholders. In New York, products are issued by Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York, which is the only Aviva life insurance company authorized to do business in the state of New York.

Aviva USA financial highlights1 (As of December 31, 2010)

(in USD millions)

Corporate bonds

Mortgage-backed securities

Mortgage loans

Policy loans

Government bonds

Other

Cash and short-term investments

Aviva Life and Annuity Company

1.4%5.1%6.4%1.6%7.2%8.4%

69.9%

Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York

1.8%1.1%5.7%1.8%6.3%

11.8%71.5 %

Aviva USA Total

70%

1.4%4.9%

8.5%

6.4%

7.2%

1.6%

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Aviva USA

Our parent company, Aviva plc*

Ranked 1st in the industry for total U.S. sales of indexed life insurance and 2nd for indexed annuities1

930,000 customers

30,000 agents representing Aviva USA

114 years of serving customers in the U.S.

$47 billion in total assets2

The 6th largest insurance group in the world1

53 million customers worldwide2

45,000 employees worldwide2

Total sales of $73 billion3

$631 billion in funds under management4

1 AnnuitySpecs.com Indexed Sales & Market Reports Fourth Quarter, 20102 Amounts measured on the basis used to prepare the Company’s Statutory Annual Statements.

*The results and cash flows of the operations have been translated using the average rates: $1.55 (£1 equal) for 2010; the assets and liabilities have been translated using the period-end rates: $1.57 (£1 equal).

1 Based on gross worldwide premium as of December 31, 2009. 2 As of December 31, 20103 Amounts measured as of December 2010. Sales measured as life and annuity (present

value of new business premium), property and casualty (net written premiums) and investment.

4 Represents all assets managed or administered by the Group, including funds held on behalf of third parties as of December 2010.

Our numbers at a glance

The rest of our story

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Our rich history While the name Aviva is fairly new, our roots go back more than 300 years, making us the oldest continuously operating insurance group in the world.

Aviva companies have been involved in insuring many historic figures, from Sir Isaac Newton to John F. Kennedy, and paying claims after historic events, such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the sinking of the Titantic.

These are examples of some of our more historic underwriting decisions.

Our support of your community We believe that by supporting the greater “you”—through both local and global community initiatives—we can better serve you. This belief most recently yielded our global Street to School program, an initiative that helps children living on the street get back into school or training programs.

Locally, many of our employees contribute their time and talents to a wide range of community organizations and, through our annual drive, make financial contributions to United Way and various educational institutions. Our Aviva Charitable Foundation then matches these donations.

Our commitment to the environmentOne of Aviva’s key objectives is to limit the impact our company has on the environment. We strive globally to reduce our CO2 emissions, water usage and the amount of waste added to landfills.

Our U.S. headquarters building is LEED-gold (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certified, recognized nationally as being designed for energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and improved indoor environmental quality.

Sir Winston ChurchillAn Aviva plc Company approved the application of this promising young officer and presented him with a fully paid-up policy in 1960.

Queen VictoriaHer Royal Majesty asked an Aviva plc Company to be her insurer 140 years ago. The Company graciously complied.

Napoleon BonaparteOver 180 years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte applied for life insurance with an Aviva plc Company. He was turned down. The rest is history.

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Where you can find usAviva Life and Annuity Company 7700 Mills Civic ParkwayWest Des Moines, IA 50266-3862515/342-2000800/800-9882

Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York324 South Service RdSuite 200Melville, NY 11747800/252-4467

Each individual company is solely responsible for the policy benefits and obligations to its policyholders. In New York, products are issued by Aviva Life and Annuity Company of New York, which is the only Aviva life insurance company authorized to do business in the state of New York.

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Thank you for taking a few moments to learn more about us. There’s much more to the Aviva story than what is contained in this brochure. We invite you to visit our website, www.avivausa.com, to learn more about us.

Look for this symbol inside the brochure to learn more about Aviva’s exclusive Wellness for Life® Rider.