Archive

  • Meiji Yasuda expands backing of regional revitalisation startup

    02 December 2025

    Via corporate venture capital fund

  • Meiji Yasuda Life invests in LatAm climate resilience and blue bonds

    21 November 2025

    Invests US $100m in bond issued by CAF and US $128.91m in bond issued by IDB Investment Corporation

  • Meiji Yasuda invests in specialist RE firm

    10 November 2025

    Marks Life aims to solve issues in real estate transactions, including aiming to increase the value of 'negative assets'

  • L&G appoints new group CFO and CEO of institutional retirement

    09 October 2025

    Gareth Mee to replace Andrew Kail as institutional retirement CEO, following latter's promotion

  • APAC Week - Is Sompo about to land (yet) another overseas M&A in Aspen?

    26 August 2025

    After the Americas-haul by Japanese groups so far, 'looks like you're gonna need a bigger boat'...

  • Meiji Yasuda Life sets path for transition lending in ESG loan programme

    17 July 2025

    Lifer is targeting net-zero investments and lending by 2050

  • Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?

    06 June 2025

    A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate

  • APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

    22 April 2025

    Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector

  • Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

    16 April 2025

    With trade wars sending markets haywire, and equities being the highest risk in insurers' investment portfolios, investment and risk teams are holding firm, in the hope of a window of blue sky

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion