Archive

  • Dai-ichi Life commits to world's first CCS bond

    12 January 2026

    The JPY 4.7bn investment will benefit Rotterdam Port clients

  • APAC Weekly - The path ahead for APAC Insurers, and their CIOs, in 2026...

    30 December 2025

    Insurance Asset Risk dusts off its crystal ball for the APAC region

  • Dai-ichi Life invests JPY 4.7bn in carbon capture bond

    30 December 2025

    Bond issued by Port of Rotterdam Authority

  • Comment: How Japan's insurers are changing the bounds of 'impact investing'

    28 October 2025

    Amid a shrinking workforce, efforts to boost productivity might now be 'impact investments'

  • Dai-ichi adds to holdings of Tokyo's climate-transition JGBs

    27 October 2025

    Japan's government is issuing JPY 20trn of paper for dual goals

  • Dai-ichi Life invests JPY 100m to redress national builder-shortfall by 2030

    27 October 2025

    Schroders fund and plastics recycler among other recipients of lifer's recent impact investments

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers welcome fork in the road for their guarantees and returns

    22 July 2025

    The 82bps difference between big lifers' guarantee and ROI is wider than any year-end since 2012

  • Dai-ichi backs Japanese government's JPY 300bn climate-transition bond issuance

    17 July 2025

    Tokyo has JPY 900bn in further issuance planned by next March

  • From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern

    07 July 2025

    From the UK to Japan to the rest of Asia, funded re rings warning bells at regulators and ratings agencies, and leading large lifers and their asset managers are treading carefully

  • Dai-Ichi Life and Marubeni Corp RE JV target JPY 3trn AuM by 2030

    03 July 2025

    Tie-up deal aimed at leveraging economies of scale completes