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Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?
06 June 2025A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate
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APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens
22 April 2025Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector
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Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm
16 April 2025With 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
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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share
24 March 2025It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion
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A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?
20 March 2025Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal
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Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance invests in San Francisco cyber insurtech
05 March 2025Japanese insurers revealed ransomware attack hit outsourcing partner last week
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Dai-ichi Life to put property businesses into JV with Marubeni Corp
03 March 2025Japanese group wants to expand real estate investing faster than organic growth allows
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Japan Post Insurance set for first emerging manager allocation next month
27 February 2025Life firm has launched an emerging manager programme with Daiwa AM
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Meiji Yasuda inks partnership with Man Group to grow private assets to JPY 600bn
26 February 2025Deal will also involve joint research, Japanese insurer says
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APAC Weekly - Whether it's CIOs, CEOs, or CUOs, the imperative these days seems to be "diversify!"
18 February 2025From investments in China to underwriting risks in Japan, APAC's insurers are spreading their risks - with one notable exception