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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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Japan's lifers vow to push ESG investing within JPY 400trn asset pot
22 July 2024New LIAJ chair issued policy statement on Friday
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Chart of the Week - Japanese life CIOs, super-long bonds and shareholdings
17 May 2024Moody's and Life Insurance Association of Japan analyse trends in one key, and one more peripheral, asset class
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Japanese lifers tell trade body they want more in return for holding equities
25 April 2024Returns, dividend payout ratios and returns on equity common causes of discontent
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Japan Post Life to boost impact investing and lending after joining global network
12 February 2024Lifer has joined global impact investment network
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Japan's life insurance trade body polls lifers and investees on key investment issues
25 April 2023JLIA unearths moments of discord on key issues affecting both parties
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Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs
01 March 2023It'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
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Government bonds remain way of life for Japanese lifers
01 November 2021However, share of domestic govvies exposure has shrunk
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Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds
26 April 2017Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say