Great Eastern to buy Malaysia insurance business from AMMB, MetLife for $256 million

Great Eastern Holdings Limited is a Singapore-based investment holding company. The Company's business segments include Life Insurance, Non-life Insurance and Shareholders. The Life Insurance segment provides different types of products, comprising life insurance, long-term health and accident insurance, annuity business written and includes the unit-linked business. The Non-life Insurance business segment issues short-term property and casualty contracts which protect the policyholder against the risk of loss of property premises due to fire or theft in the form of fire or burglary insurance contract and/or business interruption contract and risk of liability to pay compensation to a third party for bodily harm or property damage in the form of public liability insurance contract. The Shareholders segment provides fund management services for absolute return/balanced mandates with different risk-return characteristics and manages a range of products.