Thursday, June 18, 2015

Koichiro Watanabe: Dai-ichi Life Insurance President

Koichiro Watanabe was born on April 16, 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Tohoku University in March 1976. In April 1976  he joined Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. Rising through the ranks he served as Managing  Executive Officer of Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. and also became Senior Managing Executive Officer.  He became a Direct of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited in 2001. In April 1, 2010, Koichiro was appoint President of Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited.
The company that Koichiro leads was the oldest mutual insurance company in Japan until a motion to demutualise was passed in 2009 and, on April 1, 2010, was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The firm was founded on September 15, 1902. Dai-ichi Life is the third-largest life insurer by revenue in Japan. It’s just behind Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life. 
The firm deals in big money, it was announced that Dia-ichi in October 2014, raised $1 billion by issuing US-dollar-denominated subordinated bonds in overseas markets. 

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