Archive

  • Fukoku Mutual Life expands outsourcing partnerships with gold fund

    13 October 2025

    Three new funds added to individual DC programme

  • Fukoku Mutual Life outsources debt financing to local start-up fund manager

    17 July 2025

    The JPY 14bn fund lends to promising start-up companies

  • 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

  • Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?

    06 June 2025

    A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate

  • APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

    22 April 2025

    Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector

  • FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code

    23 January 2025

    In all, 84 underwriters had signed up by the end of 2024

  • 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 - Asia's insurers air post-January 2025 scenarios for 'Trump, the sequel'

    26 November 2024

    Industry questions whether 'Trump trade' is a leading indicator

  • Fukoku Life voices concern about China's non-performing property loans

    25 November 2024

    Japanese lifer also concerned at looming trade wars

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers bare their teeth, when necessary, in shareholder votes

    11 October 2024

    From climate to female-friendliness, scandals to poison pill defences, Japan's insurers explain when they back, or reject, investees