Archive

  • APAC Weekly - How US M&A 'works' for Japan's mega-insurers

    03 March 2026

    Sompo, Meiji Yasuda Life and MS&AD recently completed acquisitions in the US. Their targets' numbers are no doubt making them smile....

  • Insurance Asset Risk's investing in private markets 2026 round-up

    25 February 2026

    Highlights from the day's discussions

  • Private Markets 2026: Aspen Group looks to diversify ABF exposure

    25 February 2026

    Commiting $300m to ABF mandate for 2026

  • Outsourcing RT series: Part II, structuring the modern outsourcing deal: insurers expectation

    25 December 2025

    Insurers examine how, together with their asset managers, they are now structuring outsourcing arrangements

  • Sompo faces questions over Palantir sell-downs

    21 November 2025

    Analysts question how much Aspen M&A prompted 1H divestments from tech company

  • APAC Weekly - Sompo flags more M&A even while its Aspen deal remains live

    02 September 2025

    Japanese group is offering $3.5bn for Bermudian non-lifer

  • COTW - European insurers, and their €63bn of investments, that APAC investors/insurers own

    29 August 2025

    Bermuda hit the headlines for M&A by APAC investors- but they've bought up well in Europe, too

  • Sompo positions Aspen's "capital-light" fee-earning risk-packaging unit in its M&A plans

    28 August 2025

    Japanese group spells out reasons it wants to spend $3.5bn on Aspen

  • APAC Week - Is Sompo about to land (yet) another overseas M&A in Aspen?

    26 August 2025

    After the Americas-haul by Japanese groups so far, 'looks like you're gonna need a bigger boat'...

  • Lloyd's syndicates ventured 'beyond the core' in 2024

    01 May 2025

    For most syndicates, 'core fixed income' was the anchor for their portfolios - but that did not prevent some from charting more distant waters with their general accounts in 2024