Services for entreprises Quartier Saint-Roch, Québec

Key sectors

Insurance and financial services industry

Quebec City: insurance hub

With 11 insurance company head offices, the Quebec City region compares favourably to Hartford, Connecticut, home to the largest number of insurance companies in the world.

11 head offices
10,000 jobs
Quebec City’s finance, insurance and real estate sector is valued at CA$5 billion, representing 21% of regional GDP
Employment increase (2007-2008): 7.4%
42% of the provincial automobile and home insurance market
34% of the provincial life/health insurance and financial services market
1 insurance and financial services research chair
1 insurance and financial services development centre

Sources: Conference Board of Canada and Insurance and Financial Services Development Centre (CASF)

Portrait of a booming industry
Portrait of the Desjardins Group, Canada’s leading cooperative financial institution



Our partners

PÔLE Québec Chaudière-Appalaches

1175, Lavigerie avenue, suite 300, Quebec (Quebec), G1V 4P1
Telephone : 418-681-9700 Fax : 418-681-1535

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