Archive

  • Japanese insurer's European merger could benefit sextet of external outsourcing partners

    27 June 2024

    Carne, BlueBay AM, Veritas AM; CBRE, Aegon AM and LGT Capital Partners set to benefit

  • Investment strength helps Japan's largest insurers improve profits and solvency in 2024

    18 June 2024

    But FX hedging costs rose nonetheless, FSA finds

  • MS&AD adds name to list of Japanese insurers in Manulife's forestry fund

    03 April 2024

    Four subsidiaries made their commitments last week

  • Changes in MS&AD bond holdings do not deter revisions to full-year forecasts

    02 April 2024

    Losses and impairments affected Mitsui Sumitomo Primary Life last reporting year

  • Japanese giants MS&AD and Sumitomo launch nature-positive investment initiatives

    15 March 2024

    Insurers are uniting industry, government and academia in separate projects

  • Integrated report companies top 1,000 in Japan

    11 March 2024

    MS&AD 's latest InterRisk report discussed three major awards for integrated reporting

  • Sompo CFO takes hefty pay-cut in wake of Bigmotor scandal

    05 March 2024

    Masahiro Hamada criticised cross-shareholding in outsourcing partner

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors

  • Tokio Marine vows to "eliminate" cross-shareholdings

    29 February 2024

    Rival Sompo also to sell off its problematic strategic equity stakes

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?