“…Then, the MARCOS procedure is used to rank private pension and life insurance companies. As far as we know, unlike previous studies (Genç et al, 2015;Özbek, 2015;Ege et al, 2016;Şahin and Başarir, 2019;Noyan et al, 2019;Bayrakci and Aksoy, 2019;Acer et al, 2020;Uçar and Şahin, 2020), the financial performance analysis of life and pension companies is carried out within the framework of the SD-MARCOS model for the first time in this study. In other words, in spite of the fact that there are many studies in the previous literature focusing on financial performance analysis of life and pension companies in Turkey, no study using the SD-MARCOS performance evaluation model is found in the previous literature.…”