Perfect Partners
You never have to go-it-alone when your partners are perfectly aligned with your mission and business objectives.
Two organizations that align perfectly with ProEquities and represent the highest standards of excellence for quality and reliability are Pershing, our clearing firm, and Protective Life Insurance Company, one of the nation’s leading insurance providers. Protective Life is autonomous from ProEquities and without proprietary constraints.
Pershing LLC

You want your business to achieve its maximum potential. That is why you need a partner who delivers maximum support—a partner like Pershing, committed to helping you grow your business without limits.
Leadership
Pershing is the industry's largest global business solutions provider, with more customers who clear with us than with any other firm. We offer unequaled experience built over seven decades of serving financial organizations of every size and business model.
Strength
You can gain confidence from our financial position. Pershing has approximately $988.8 billion* in assets held in custody. Our parent company, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, has $25.5 trillion in assets under custody and administration.
Scale
Pershing's market leadership enables us to make an exceptional investment in your success. We offer state-of-the-art technology, a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure, and a host of innovative products and services to help you expand your offering.
Commitment
We exclusively serve financial organizations, money managers, and registered investment advisors, with no retail lines of business to distract us, and no proprietary trading for our own book of business. Our success completely depends on yours.
Service
Our story begins and ends with our people. Pershing invests in a high-touch, dedicated service model, and takes a consultative approach to helping you succeed. Our long associate tenures let you build lasting relationships with experienced professionals who know your business.
Global Reach
We are the industry's largest global outsourcing provider, serving more than 300 international financial organizations and doing business in more than 60 markets. Turn to us for a one-stop, full-service global solution with integrated, multicurrency clearing and execution, plus a full range of global resources.
Protective Life Insurance Company

About Protective Life Insurance Company
Protective Life Insurance Company offers competitive and customizable insurance products backed by exemplary customer service. Protective Life’s innovative life insurance and annuity products are available nationwide.
Experience you Can Depend On
In business for more than 100 years, Protective Life has built an outstanding reputation for providing customers with innovative, value-added and competitively priced insurance products. Protective Life continues to provide insightful, intelligent ways to help customers minimize risk and achieve long-term financial goals.
Protective Life—Experience the Difference
Protective Life believes that doing the right thing is smart business®. It’s the principle that guides all they do. With modern sensibilities, a solutions-based philosophy and smart, competitive life insurance and annuities products, Protective Life remains a leader in the industry after a century in business.
The true value of every life insurance product is dependent upon the strength and stability of the company behind it. Protective Life Insurance Company carries high ratings from independent rating organizations who assign ratings measuring financial strength or claims-paying abilities. They consider factors such as overall operating performance, asset quality, financial flexibility, and capitalization. Protective Life Insurance Company has insurer financial strength ratings of: A+ (Superior, 2nd highest of 15 ratings) from A.M. Best, AA- (Very Strong, 4th highest of 21 ratings) from Standard & Poor’s, A (Strong, 6th highest of 22 ratings) from Fitch, and A2 (Good, 6th highest of 21 ratings) from Moody’s Investors Service.*
*These ratings are current as of July 15, 2011. For more current information, please visit www.protective.com.