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• 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

• 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

• Second Japanese firm targets unhedged foreign bonds

  13 October 2016

  Fukoku Mutual Life joins Mitsui in buying foreign bonds without currency hedging