Archive

  • Nippon Life makes first green loan to local financial firm

    03 January 2025

    The JPY 300m facility was lifer's first such loan

  • Nippon Life and AXA Life team up on unit-linked policy sales

    03 January 2025

    Japanese insurers have collaborated on health business for 10 years

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • Nippon Life can manage risks of funded re after Resolution M&A, S&P Global Ratings predicts

    16 December 2024

    But ratings agency expects parties to deal to watch regulatory developments closely

  • Carlyle-owned asset manager scores massive win in outsourcing by Nippon Life

    16 December 2024

    TCW could win mandate worth up to $3.3bn from lifer

  • Blackstone to keep Resolution Life mandate post Nippon Life acquisition

    11 December 2024

    Japanese insurer acquires Resolution in $8.2bn deal

  • Nippon Life LP backs local AI healthcare start-up to combat "serious labour shortage"

    28 November 2024

    Zest focuses on AI for in-home and nursing care

  • Nippon Life's blue bond investment helps Japan's universities reverse 'lost 30 years'

    25 November 2024

    The JPY 500m purchase was for 20-year paper

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

    05 November 2024

    A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets

  • Nippon Life targets logistics with PE real estate fund investment

    28 October 2024

    Outsourcing partner is local fund manager GLP