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Nippon Life Insurance Phlippines Inc. (Nippon Life) is targetting to raise its total premium income to P720 million this year, from its P600 million recorded in 2006.


"We will raise our total assets to P3 billion from the P2.4 billion in 2006," Yoshinobu Kimura, president and chief executive officer of Nippon Life, said in a press briefing last week.


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The Great Pacific Life Assurance Corp. (Grepalife) is looking to barge into the top five life insurers in terms of total premiums within the next four years.


At the start of 2006, Grepalife was ranked ninth among the country’s 34 life insurers with total premiums of P1.088 billion. The life industry’s total premiums amount to almost P47 billion last year.


This year, Grepalife officials estimate that total premiums will range in the P1.2-billion level or roughly a 10-percent increase. 


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                    [Title] => Grepalife premium income up 33% in first nine months
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Grepalife is a member of the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) focused mainly in the life insurance industry. Its sister companies are Malayan Insurance Co. Inc. (non-life insurance sector) and Pacific Plans Inc. (pre-need industry).


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                    [Title] => 3 foreign insurers eye PNB for bancassurance; Sun Life of Canada shops for banking partner
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                    [Title] => Nippon Life RP posts record performance
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Its individual business line posted an impressive 137 percent increase in first year premiums compared to the same period last year. The company posted an over-all growth rate of 164 percent in first year premiums last year.


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Grepalife, Great Life merger done by March

By Ted P. Torres | December 1, 2009 - 12:00am

The consolidation of life insurers Great Pacific Life Assurance Corp. (Grepalife) and Great Life Financial Assurance Corp. (Great Life) will be consummated by the first quarter of 2010.

Banking

Nippon Life targets 10th spot overall in next two years

February 27, 2007 - 12:00am

Nippon Life Insurance Phlippines Inc. (Nippon Life) is targetting to raise its total premium income to P720 million this year, from its P600 million recorded in 2006. "We will raise our total assets to...

Banking

Grepalife wants to join top 5 by 2010

By Ted P. Torres | December 19, 2006 - 12:00am

The Great Pacific Life Assurance Corp. (Grepalife) is looking to barge into the top five life insurers in terms of total premiums within the next four years. At the start of 2006, Grepalife was ranked ninth...

Banking

Grepalife premium income up 33% in first nine months

November 25, 2003 - 12:00am

The Great Pacific Life Assurance Corp. (Grepalife) recorded total premium income of P900.782 million in end September this year or 32.53 percent better than the same period last year. Grepalife is a member of the...

Banking

3 foreign insurers eye PNB for bancassurance; Sun Life of Canada shops for banking partner

December 10, 2002 - 12:00am

The Philippines National Bank (PNB) is talking with three foreign life insurance companies while life insurer Sun Life of Canada (Philippines) Inc. is aggressively courting several commercial banks.

Banking

Nippon Life RP posts record performance

July 29, 2002 - 12:00am

Nippon Life Insurance Co. of the Philippines posted record breaking growth rates in first year premium income for the first six months of 2002. Its individual business line posted an impressive 137 percent increase...

Business