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Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or simply Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational insurance company and subsidiary of OCBC Bank operating in the Southeast Asia region. Founded in 1908 by Alfred Hewton Fair, it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia.
The company then expanded into the Philippines in 2014 and Indonesia in 2015. Expanding into three more countries in 2016, [4] [8] that year FWD Group acquired Shenton Insurance in Singapore, [9] also purchasing a unit from Great Eastern Holdings Ltd. in Vietnam [8] for $35 million. [16] In late 2016, FWD agreed to buy AIG's Fuji Life Insurance ...
Sun Life Takaful; HSBC Amanah Takaful (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd; Etiqa Takaful Berhad; Prudential BSN Takaful Berhad; Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad; Takaful Ikhlas Sdn. Bhd; Takaful Nasional Sdn. Bhd. Hong Leong MSIG Takaful; Great Eastern Takaful Sdn Bhd; AIA AFG Takaful Berhad; AmMetLife Takaful Berhad; AIA PUBLIC Takaful Berhad; MAA Takaful Berhad
Takaful (Arabic: التكافل, sometimes translated as "solidarity" or mutual guarantee) [1] is a co-operative system of reimbursement or repayment in case of loss, organized as an Islamic or sharia-compliant alternative to conventional insurance, which contains riba (usury) and gharar (excessive uncertainty).
Takaful Malaysia was established on 29 November 1984 when the Government of Malaysia set up a task force to study the feasibility of establishing an Islamic insurance company in Malaysia. [2] The incorporation of Takaful Malaysia as the first takaful operator in the country was in the same year as the Takaful Act was enacted. [3]
The company is a provider of both family and general takaful. For six successive years since 2011, PruBSN has been the Number 1 Family Takaful Operator and in 2016, our company achieved New Business Production of RM446 million with a 32.5% market share as confirmed by the industry rating agency, Insurance Services Malaysia. [3]
It is a member of the Maybank Group, offering life and general insurance policies, as well as, family and general takaful plans. It has over 10,000 agents, 46 branches, 17 offices, and a bancassurance network consisting of over 490 branches, cooperatives, brokers, and online platforms across Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and ...
AIA PUBLIC distributes family takaful products via AIA Malaysia's 17,000 insurance agents (known as life planners) (as of 2015) and Public Bank's over 250 branches in Malaysia. [5] The company made its first surplus distribution in 2014. [6]