Archive

  • Asahi Life makes "positive impact" loan to Tokyo Century

    13 April 2026

    Lending criteria take holistic view on borrowers' impact

  • Asahi Life makes 10-year green loan to local bank

    30 March 2026

    Peers are adopting asset-owner principles, and using renewable power in investment properties

  • Asahi Life backs Hokkaido battery project

    18 March 2026

    Through means of a 19-year loan

  • 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

  • Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'

    04 December 2024

    Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too

  • APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

    02 July 2024

    From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

  • Major Japanese lifers announce environmentally-friendly real asset milestones

    07 May 2024

    Major Japanese lifers announce environmentally-friendly real asset milestones

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster