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• Japan Post Insurance aims to implement impact investing at local stock exchange

  30 May 2025

  A fund run by Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corp will focus on listed companies

• Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

  09 April 2025

  In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

• Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

  03 April 2025

  Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

• LGIM backs Moray East offshore transmission assets with £268m

  15 April 2024

  Deal completed alongside consortium of banks

• Just Group completes £130m buy-in deal with Lucite pension fund

  11 April 2024

  Deal secures benefits of 438 scheme members

• Chart of the Week - Sumitomo Life's yen for outsourcing, and plans for more of it, in the future

  26 January 2024

  The Japanese lifer has fresh independent asset managers in its sights

• Chart of the Week - Europe's insurers reveal more strategic planning details

  08 September 2023

  It's not just breakdowns of market risk SCRs that CIOs are telling the world about...

• Secret plans - CIOs reveal how market risk's SCR elements (should) develop in future

  30 August 2023

  Insurance Risk Data has unearthed strategic data about how Europe's insurers expect the six sub-modules of their market risk SCR to evolve out to 2026. David Walker investigates

• Large UK local sovereign / premium mismatch unearthed by BIS

  01 March 2023

  Across EEA 51% of sovereigns in GAs are local, EIOPA data shows

• Notes from a small island - on outsourcing by Bermuda's insurers

  16 December 2021

  David Walker tells the story of how Bermudian CIOs opened up to independent fund managers