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Fukoku Mutual Life expands outsourcing partnerships with gold fund
13 October 2025Three new funds added to individual DC programme
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Fukoku Mutual Life outsources debt financing to local start-up fund manager
17 July 2025The JPY 14bn fund lends to promising start-up companies
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From major regulators to major ratings agencies, funded re causes concern
07 July 2025From 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
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Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
06 June 2025A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate
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APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens
22 April 2025Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector
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FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code
23 January 2025In all, 84 underwriters had signed up by the end of 2024
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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APAC Weekly - Asia's insurers air post-January 2025 scenarios for 'Trump, the sequel'
26 November 2024Industry questions whether 'Trump trade' is a leading indicator
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Fukoku Life voices concern about China's non-performing property loans
25 November 2024Japanese lifer also concerned at looming trade wars
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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers bare their teeth, when necessary, in shareholder votes
11 October 2024From climate to female-friendliness, scandals to poison pill defences, Japan's insurers explain when they back, or reject, investees