About Dai-ichi Life Holdings Company

Daiichi Life is Japan’s second-largest life insurance company excluding recently privatized Japan Post Insurance, with a market share of around 11% of annualized net premiums. Unlike its largest domestic competitors Nippon Life, Meiji Yasuda, and Sumitomo Life, which remain mutually owned by their policyholders, Daiichi Life demutualized and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2010. Its main domestic operating company accounts for around 60% of profits, its Frontier bancassurance subsidiary selling mainly savings products accounts for around 10%, Alabama-based Protective Life accounts for around 15%, TAL in Australia accounts for 7%, and Daiichi Life Vietnam around 5%. Daiichi also holds a 30% economic interest in Mizuho’s Asset Management One.