Dai-ichi Life

Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.
Native name
第一生命ホールディングス株式会社
Dai-ichi Seimei Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha
Formerly
  • The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company (1902-2010)
  • The Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited (2010-2016)
Company typePublic
TYO: 8750
TOPIX Large 70 Component
(Dai-ichi Life Holdings)
FoundedSeptember 15, 1902 (1902-09-15)
FounderTsuneta Yano
HeadquartersDai-ichi Life Hibiya First, Yurakucho, ,
Japan
ProductsInsurance
Revenue5.28 trillion yen (FY 2013)
32.4 billion yen (FY 2013)
Total assets$346.9 billion (2015), Solvency ratio: 763.8%
Total equity1.64 trillion yen (March 2013)
Number of employees
61,335 (2013)
Subsidiaries
  • The Dai-ichi Life Insurance
  • Dai-Ichi Frontier
  • Neo-First Life Insurance
  • iPet
  • Dai-ichi Small Amount and Short-term
Websitewww.dai-ichi-life-hd.com

Dai-Ichi Life Holdings Co., Ltd. (第一生命ホールディングス株式会社, Dai-ichi Seimei Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-gaisha), 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.

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

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