National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives

National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives is an insurance company based out of Tokyo, Japan. The company was originally established in 1951 and acts as Japan’s mutual aid association of agricultural cooperatives. National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives was created out of the Agricultural Cooperative Society Law which was enacted in 1947. The company would grow through both organic means and through acquisitions, launching a series of insurance products in the 1950s. The company would then join the insurance committee of the International Co-operative Alliance in 1964, continuing to grow with other strategic collaborations. National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives would then establish an online network system between the National Federation and Prefectural Federations in 1974. The organization would then establish Zenkyoren Asset Management of America, Inc. in 1988, marking its expansion on an international scale. The organization would continue to be a part of numerous significant events and alliances on a global scale, opening a variety of centers such as the Zenkyoren East and West Japan Underwriting Centers in 2005 and then Makuhari Training Center in 2006, among many others, and working with further business alliances. The company currently operates as a subsidiary of Japan Agricultural Cooperatives and is also known by ZENKYOREN. National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives invests most heavily in the finance sector, in fact, investing almost all of its managed assets in this sector, although the firm also invests in the information technology, consumer discretionary, health care, consumer staples, and utilities and telecommunications sectors to a lesser degree, among others. The company holds its allocations an average of over 22 quarters although National Mutual Insurance Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives only holds its top 10 allocations for an average of 14.4 quarters. In the most recent quarter, the firm had a turnover rate of approximately 9.1%.