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  • Sony Life outsources local impact investing to local manager

    27 April 2026

    A JPY 10bn fund will receive monies from Japanese lifer

  • Nippon Life uses Nippon Capital LP to invest in daycare software developer

    27 April 2026

    Part of insurer's locally-focused ESG investing

  • German insurers welcome seismic pension reform - with caveats

    27 April 2026

    Germany's Riester Rente system was certainly in need of change, but practitioners aren't wholly convinced what's coming quite fits the bill...

  • Chart of the week: Chinese state insurers' investment returns jump after year of equity push

    24 April 2026

    New China Life's return on investment grew 35% in 2025

  • S&P warns SII reforms could spur more private credit investments

    23 April 2026

    Agency to monitor rising exposure to private credit, despite low relative allocation levels currently

  • China's leading re/insurers use GAs, to 'renew their social licences'

    20 April 2026

    Backing Beijing's five key national projects almost trumped investment yields, in underwriters' 2025 result

  • PIC registers UK social and affordable housing arm

    16 April 2026

    Represents firm's entry in to direct role in sector

  • Oil shocks and policy fog: Insurance investors face a market that won't behave

    15 April 2026

    Insurance investors are balancing geopolitical uncertainty, inflation pressure and a market that appears increasingly disconnected from reality

  • APAC Weekly - Region's re/insurers set up pools to cover marine war risks and petrol purchases

    14 April 2026

    Underwriters and governments have acted quickly to make war risks and petrol buying insurable

  • Hard currency: Taiwan's lifers have lowered FX hedging ratios, but for how long?

    13 April 2026

    Ten months since the US and Taiwan dollars sharply parted ways, handing FX investment risk is still upmost in life CIOs' thoughts