Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (東京海上ホールディングス株式会社), is a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the largest property/casualty insurance group in Japan in terms of revenue and is the parent company for the Tokio Marine Group which employs 39,000[2] people in 38 countries worldwide.
The main business of Tokio Marine is Management of non-life insurance companies, life insurance companies, specialized securities companies, foreign companies engaged in insurance businesses and any other company which is or may become a subsidiary of the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Insurance Business Law of Japan, and any other business pertaining to the foregoing item.
History
Founded in 1879 as Tokio Marine Insurance, it is the oldest insurance company in Japan. Millea Holdings was established in 2002 to become the parent company to Tokio Marine Insurance and Nichido Fire Insurance in preparation for their merger, before being renamed Tokio Marine Holdings in 2008.[3]
Tokio Marine acquired the Philadelphia Insurance Companies for $4.7 billion in 2008, and acquired the Delphi Financial Group for $2.66 billion in 2012.[4] In June 2015, Tokio Marine announced it would be acquiring HCC Insurance Holdings for $7.5 billion.[5] Tokio Marine forecast that 46% of its profits would come from outside Japan following the HCC acquisition.[4]
Since June 2019, Satoru Komiya has been the President and Group CEO. In October 2019, Tokio Marine Insurance announced it would buy insurer Pure Group for about $3.1 billion.[6][7]
Controversies
Insure Our Future has described Tokio Marine’s environmental policy as “weak”.[8] Unlike its competitor Sompo, Tokio Marine does not plan to stop insuring coal-fired power plants in Japan.[8]
Holdings
Domestic Non-Life Insurance Business Domestic Life Insurance Business International Insurance Business Other Non-Insurance Businesses
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co.
- Nisshin Fire & Marine Co.
- E.design Insurance
- Tokio Marine Millea SAST
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Life Insurance Co.
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Financial Life Insurance Co.
- Tokio Marine HCC
- Philadelphia Insurance Companies
- Tokio Marine Asia - Regional HQ for Asia Pacific
- First Insurance Company of Hawaii, Ltd.
- Tokio Marine Kiln Group
- Delphi Financial Group
- Tokio Marine America
- Safety National
- Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
- Reliance Matrix
- Tokio Marine Asset Management
- Tokio Marine Technologies
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Career Service Co.
- Millea Real-Estate-Risk Management
- Tokio Marine & Nichido Facilities
- Millea Mondial
- Tokio Marine Nichido Samuel
External links
- Company website (in Japanese)
- Company website (in English)
References
- 2022 Integrated Annual Report^
- Tokio Marine Group | Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc^
- アニュアルレポート | ダウンロードセンター | 東京海上ホールディングス - to be a Good Company -^
- Atsuko Fukase. Tokio Marine to Buy HCC Insurance for $7.5 Billion The Wall Street Journal, 10 June 2015, retrieved 11 June 2015^
- Taiga Uranaka. Tokio Marine to buy HCC Insurance for $7.5 billion Reuters, 10 June 2015, retrieved 10 June 2015^
- Kana Inagaki. Tokio Marine agrees to buy US insurer Pure Group for $3.1bn Financial Times, 3 October 2019, retrieved October 3, 2019^
- Tokio Marine to buy U.S. insurer Pure Group for about $3 billion Reuters, 2019-10-03, retrieved 2019-10-03^
- Gabriel Olano. Tokio Marine announces coal policy; climate group unimpressed Insurance Business Asia, Key Media, October 1, 2020^