The Masters is a Grand Slam event on the men's and women's World Curling Tour . It is the second Grand Slam event and first major on the women's and men's tour. The event is an amalgamation of the men's World Cup of Curling and the women's Sun Life Classic . There was also a men's Sun Life Classic, which has been discontinued. The Sun Life Classic was an annual WCT event (but not a Grand Slam event) held every November at the Paris Curling Club , Brant Curling Club and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in the Brantford , Ontario area. The World Cup was a Grand Slam event and was held in various locations across Canada, and was also previously known as the Masters.
8-731: The first incarnation of the event with both men and women was held in 2012 at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre and the Brantford Golf & Country Club in Brantford, Ontario. The event is currently sponsored by World Financial Group , a multi-level marketing company. Notes Past champions are listed as follows: World Financial Group This is an accepted version of this page 34°03′27″N 84°10′09″W / 34.057605°N 84.169202°W / 34.057605; -84.169202 World Financial Group ( WFG )
16-567: Is a multi-level marketing financial and insurance services company based in Johns Creek, Georgia , a suburb of Atlanta, which sells investment, insurance, and various other financial products through a network of distributors in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It is wholly owned by Dutch life insurance multinational Aegon and operates primarily under the Transamerica brand in
24-410: The United States. World Financial Group associates are compensated by selling financial services products and receiving commission overrides from people that agents sponsor into the company. World Marketing Alliance (WMA) was founded by Hubert Humphrey after he left Primerica in 1991. The original name was Alexander, Inc. but shortly thereafter was renamed World Marketing Alliance. The original idea
32-831: The company was criticized by customers who claimed to have lost significant sums due to WFG agents selling them "inappropriate investments". In 2015, John Hancock Financial, a Boston-based insurance company, acquired 1,100 advisors from Transamerica World Financial Group. World Financial Group has over 3,500 offices in the United States. The World Financial Group Canadian division, World Financial Group Insurance Agency of Canada Inc., moved to Toronto, Ontario in February 2012. In 2008, World Financial Group had over 80 Canadian offices and over 1,500 agents. On July 1, 2013, WFG Securities of Canada, Inc. changed its name to Transamerica Securities, Inc. As of 2022, there are approximately 53,200 independent life insurance agents associated with WFGIA in
40-709: The methodology in WMA. MD TV, the company's private satellite television network, was also introduced during this period. The company expanded its operations to Canada, Taiwan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The company held its first convention in Las Vegas in 1992. It was attended by about 2,000 associates. On March 23, 1998, WMA Executive World Headquarters opened in Duluth, Georgia. The 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) building housed 500+ employees. In November 1998, WMA
48-406: Was fined $ 100,000 "for not properly supervising its sales agents" after their clients lost nearly $ 2 million in unregistered investments. In 2000, WMA was fined $ 125,000 "for failing to report nearly 900 customer complaints". In June 2001, select assets of WMA were purchased by AEGON and renamed World Financial Group, Inc. Humphrey retained WMA Mortgage Services, Inc. and the original logo, which
56-473: Was that the baby boomers needed a solution for wealth creation and tax protection, and that the "buy term and invest the difference" philosophy of Primerica (formerly A.L. Williams) could be better addressed with variable universal life insurance . While in A.L., Humphrey created and introduced the Business Format System (BFS), a business sales and recruiting methodology. Humphrey continued to develop
64-451: Was used in his subsequent companies World Leadership Group and Hegemon Group International. As part of the conditions of sale, Humphrey was placed on a noncompete agreement and could not compete in the insurance industry until 2013. Following the sale of WMA to Aegon, Alexander Wynaendts , chief executive of AEGON, was quoted as saying, "When we took the company over, we put in place very strict regulatory and compliance procedures". In 2008,
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