Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Rising interest rates in Japan boost affiliates' employment plans

    14 October 2025

    Rates up means risk-on, albeit carefully, for Japanese investors

  • TMAM cites US tariffs as potential roadblock to BoJ rate hike by July

    24 March 2025

    Economic variables otherwise augur well for outlook in Japan, TMAM says

  • Insurers cautious but unalarmed by equities volatility

    06 August 2024

    RLAM says investor nervousness on the US recession risk may be overstated

  • Japanese insurers views' vindicated as BoJ hikes again

    31 July 2024

    Meiji Yasuda AM and Tokio Marine AM had flagged higher rates in future

  • Stagnant consumption may limit BoJ's rate hiking plans, predicts Tokio Marine

    16 July 2024

    MetLife Japan survey finds saving, not spending, bonuses is on consumers' agenda

  • LGIM renewables fund buys minority stake in offshore windfarm

    02 May 2024

    Acquisition represents L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) Fund's first UK deal

  • Tokio Marine affiliated manager foresees 10-year JGB yields at 1.5%

    26 March 2024

    TMAM expects "at least one" more interest rate hike in 2024

  • Japanese insurers have JPY 4trn in outstanding LIBOR contracts

    10 September 2020

    Insurers better prepared for benchmark transition than banks, Japanese regulator survey finds

  • Japan regulator reveals insurers' JPY 32trn Libor challenge

    16 March 2020

    All but JPY 6trn of underwriters' asset and investment exposure runs through 2021

  • Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

    30 August 2017

    With negative-yielding domestic bonds, a back book with high return guarantees and a prudential solvency regulation on the horizon, Japanese life insurers are caught between a rock and a hard place. David Turner reports.