OREANDA-NEWS. The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Limited hereby announces “Action D”, a new medium-term management plan of the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates.

The Group has, under its previous medium-term plan “Success 110” covering FY2011 and 2012, successfully implemented initiatives to accelerate growth by the end of the Company’s 110th anniversary, along with making as great an effort as possible for recovery from the impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The initiatives included: proactive investment in potential growth areas; and improvement in profitability and efficiency of the Company’s domestic life insurance business. These efforts resulted in the stable growth in new business acquisition in growth areas such as third sector and individual savings type products, and the sound growth of the Group’s overseas business centered on the Asia-Pacific region.

Now that the Company is marking its 111th anniversary, the Group formulated a new plan covering FY 2013 to 2015. The Group strives to achieve sustained growth that meets all its stakeholders’ expectations within the value creating framework we term DSR (i.e. Dai-ichi’s Social Responsibility) Management, along with its Group vision “Thinking People First”. Company see the three fiscal years under Action D as a period to accelerate the Group's collective challenges for achieving further growth.