Archive

  • TMNFI reveals state of sales of listed and unquoted keiretsu

    27 October 2025

    Insurer is moving much more quickly to sell down listed stakes

  • Japan's non-life net income leaped 47% last year on keiretsu sell-downs

    16 June 2025

    Falls in local shareholdings dented solvency of country's lifers, in year to March

  • 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