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

  • FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code

    23 January 2025

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

  • Chart of the Week: Japan's affiliates welcome arrival of novel concept - inflation

    22 March 2024

    Insurers' asset managers were expecting the BOJ's rates policy to change, as prices keep rising, sustainably

  • Fokoku Life Mutual invests JPY 4.9bn in sustainable development bond

    12 March 2024

    Bond from Inter-American Development Bank for health and employment of Central American women

  • Insurance affiliates expect "inflationary cycle" at last, in Japan

    01 March 2024

    The BOJ's 2% target is in reach

  • Chart of the week - Fukoku Mutual Life analyses how to survive a pandemic holding shares

    09 June 2023

    Japanese lifer shows what worked and failed, and discusses hedging, or restructuring, 'pandemic portfolios'

  • Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs

    01 March 2023

    It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster

  • Fukoku Mutual expands allocation to unhedged foreign bonds

    13 October 2017

    Costs of hedging remain high