Dai-ichi Mutual Life to boost equity stake in Resona (Japan Today)
TOKYO Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co plans to buy some 100 billion yen worth of Resona Holdings Inc common shares from the government to raise its stake in the bank holding firm to about 5% from 0.9% in March, informed sources said Friday.

Japan's SBI prepares to offer non-life insurance (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
TOKYO, June 22 (Reuters) - SBI Holdings , a Japanese investment firm, said on Friday its hopes to start offering non-life insurance policies during the first half of fiscal 2007.

Life insurance cos aim at health segment (IBN via Yahoo! India News)
Health insurance is a young sector which is predominately dominated by the public sector general insurance companies.

Universal Life Remains the Dominant Individual Life Insurance Product in Canada (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Canada's Life Insurance Industry -- Porter's Five Forces Strategy Analysis to their offering.