Archive

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?

  • Japanese insurers flock to country's Asset Owner Principles

    02 January 2025

    Government distributed precepts for institutional investors in August

  • MS&AD adds biodiversity assessment to renewables risk assessments

    11 December 2024

    Following the "rapid expansion" of renewable energy adoption in Japan

  • Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

    20 November 2024

    Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • MS&AD reveals investment plans for proceeds from strategic equity sales

    11 November 2024

    Japanese composite also reveals outsourcing plans for portfolio

  • 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

  • MS Amlin appoints head of capital management and investments

    23 September 2024

    Emma Snowdon joins from Direct Line Group

  • APAC Weekly - Sensitive data keeps leaking at Japan's 'porous' non-lifers

    03 September 2024

    Malign hackers blameless in recent spillages of sensitive customer data

  • Tokio Marine and MS&AD announce first step in disentangling equity cross-holdings

    27 August 2024

    Japan's majors are unravelling their stakes, chiefly with Toyota