NFS

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.nationwidefinancial.com

There's wide, there's double-wide, and then there's Nationwide. Nationwide Financial Services (NFS) oversees the life insurance and banking services business of insurance giant Nationwide Mutual. Through Nationwide Life Insurance, it offers long-term savings and retirement products including individual variable annuity contracts. It also offers group and individual protective life insurance policies. Retirement plans are offered to individuals and through employer-sponsored plans. The company also provides banking services (savings, mortgage loan origination) while its Nationwide Better Health offers workplace health management products. Its products are sold through direct sales and brokers.

Officers:
Chairman: Arden L. Shisler
SVP and CFO: Timothy G. Frommeyer
EVP and CIO: Michael C. (Mike) Keller

Competitors:
MassMutual
MetLife
Prudential

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(Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. The name is somewhat misleading because NFS is not a disk file system that reads and writes the disk sectors, but enables the operating system to view files on computers in the network as if they were local. See file sharing protocol, file system and WebNFS.

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NFS may mean:

• Network File System (protocol), the Network File System protocol developed by Sun Microsystems
• NFS (news service) (Nýja fréttastofan), a former Icelandic television news service
• National Financial Switch, a bank network in India
• National Fire Service, the Second World War UK fire service
• Need for Speed, a series of driving video games
• Council of Nordic Trade Unions (Nordens Fackliga Samorganisation), a federation of Scandinavian trade unions
• General number field sieve, an algorithm for factoring integers
• National Forest System, a division of the United States Forest Service

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