Archive

  • Japan & US insurance investing - Overlapping worlds, or very different landscapes?

    28 April 2025

    Eric Tanaka, relocated from the US to Japan to head the Wellington office. He reflects on the differences and similarities between the two markets.

  • China's regulator sets strict investment limits for universal life products

    28 April 2025

    PE, property, funds and private-markets investments highlighted in NFRA's note

  • APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

    22 April 2025

    Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector

  • COTW: Nippon Life aims to address Japanese 'ESG paradox'

    18 April 2025

    Through system-level investing approach

  • PGIM Real Estate appoints deputy head of Asia Pacific

    16 April 2025

    David Fassbender to take on role

  • Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

    16 April 2025

    With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky

  • Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

    15 April 2025

    Lifer also expands 2030 asset portfolio GHG emissions reduction target to include all domestic group companies

  • APAC Weekly - Would you panic-buy rice?

    15 April 2025

    Cool heads were needed, but arguably hard to find, this month, as Donald Trump's tariffs stirred up a storm across APAC

  • Manulife IM makes first direct property purchase in Australia

    14 April 2025

    Logistics building in Sydney is already fully let

  • Treasury yield spikes may reflect investors' economic downturn fears, AllianzGI says

    11 April 2025

    Yield increases "counterintuitive" alongside equity volatility