Archive

  • Sompo launches appraisal of 'remaining useful life' for property investors

    20 April 2026

    'Statutory useful life' may fall short as an accurate metric, insurer warns

  • APAC Weekly - How 'DEI by stealth' is paying off at Japan's insurers

    17 March 2026

    In the past five weeks Japan's insurers might, unknowingly, have just set a new industry record.

  • S&P Ratings says foreign units will replace profits from keiretsu sales in Japan

    13 March 2026

    Major non-lifers are still selling down cross shareholdings

  • APAC Weekly - How US M&A 'works' for Japan's mega-insurers

    03 March 2026

    Sompo, Meiji Yasuda Life and MS&AD recently completed acquisitions in the US. Their targets' numbers are no doubt making them smile....

  • P&C insurers' balance sheets and investment returns strong in 2026, Moody's says

    09 January 2026

    Most regions to continue to benefit from reinvestment yields that exceed levels during the low-rate era

  • Sompo faces questions over Palantir sell-downs

    21 November 2025

    Analysts question how much Aspen M&A prompted 1H divestments from tech company

  • APAC Weekly - Sompo flags more M&A even while its Aspen deal remains live

    02 September 2025

    Japanese group is offering $3.5bn for Bermudian non-lifer

  • COTW - European insurers, and their €63bn of investments, that APAC investors/insurers own

    29 August 2025

    Bermuda hit the headlines for M&A by APAC investors- but they've bought up well in Europe, too

  • Sompo positions Aspen's "capital-light" fee-earning risk-packaging unit in its M&A plans

    28 August 2025

    Japanese group spells out reasons it wants to spend $3.5bn on Aspen

  • 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'...