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• Investment risk-taking balanced out keiretsu sales' effect on MS&AD's solvency in 2024

  21 May 2025

  Japanese group is selling down strategic holdings, along with Sompo and Tokio Marine

• 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"

• APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

  24 March 2025

  It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

• Nippon Life shifts GA assets to build Nissay AM's life investment skills

  11 March 2025

  Nippon Life and Taiju Life already moved some assets to the affiliate

• Sompo cites accelerated strategic divestments for best ever December quarter

  17 February 2025

  Japanese group also sold JPY 21.3bn of local bonds as rates start rising

• Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March

  25 December 2024

  FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy

• 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 - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

  03 December 2024

  It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

• Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

  20 November 2024

  Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions