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Japan's largest insurer to buy US competitor

Japan accounts for more than 80 per cent of Tokio Marine's profits, but the insurer is trying to expand abroad to escape slow growth in its home market ...full story at Financial Times

from Financial Times on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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