Dai-ichi Life

The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited
Company typeKabushiki gaisha
Subsidiary
TYO: 8750
TOPIX Large 70 Component
(Dai-ichi Life Holdings)
IndustryInsurance
FoundedSeptember 15, 1902; 122 years ago (1902-09-15) (as mutual company)
April 1, 2010 (as stock company)
FounderTsuneta Yano
Headquarters,
ProductsInsurance
Revenue5.28 trillion yen (FY 2013)
32.4 billion yen (FY 2013)
Total assets$346.9 billion (2015),[1] Solvency ratio: 763.8%
Total equity1.64 trillion yen (March 2013)
Number of employees
61,335 (2013)
ParentDai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.
Websitewww.dai-ichi-life.co.jp

The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited (第一生命保険株式会社, Dai-ichi Seimei Hoken Kabushiki-kaisha), or Dai-ichi Life for short, is the third-largest life insurer in Japan by revenue, behind Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life.

Founded on September 15, 1902, Dai-Ichi was one of the oldest mutual insurance companies in Japan until a motion to demutualise was passed in 2009 and, on April 1, 2010, it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, raising 1.01 trillion yen. As of March 2013, it had the most assets of any listed company in Japan with a total of 33 trillion yen on its stand-alone balance sheet, more than twice the total assets of #2-ranked Tokyo Electric Power Company.[2]

It was announced in October 2014 that Dai-ichi would raise US$1 billion by issuing US-dollar-denominated subordinated bonds in overseas markets.[3]

It is also the largest single shareholder of the Tokyu Corporation, holding 6.35% of all issued stock.

  1. ^ "The World's Biggest Public Companies". forbes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Total asset Daily ranking - Zenshijo Kabushiki ranking - Yahoo!Finance". yahoo.co.jp. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ^ Dai-ichi Life to raise $1 billion via subordinated bond issue. Reuters, 14 October 2014