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• Sompo plans hybrid bond buying as equity sale proceeds accelerate

  13 March 2025

  Japanese group expects over JPY 400bn strategic stake divestments by March

• Sompo cites accelerated strategic divestments for best ever December quarter

  17 February 2025

  Japanese group also sold JPY 21.3bn of local bonds as rates start rising

• Sompo increases full-year investment income expectations

  28 November 2024

  Full-year income will have almost doubled since 2020 fiscal year

• 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

• Sompo International reveals illiquidity in alternative fund holdings

  26 August 2024

  But income from alts funds jumps 19% in 2023

• Sompo's foreign business improves investment income by 47% in Q1

  12 July 2024

  SIH benefitted from reallocating tactically on yield curve in 2023, CFO says

• 'I can't believe it's not beta' - insurers reveal their market sensitivity

  02 November 2022

  Worldwide CIOs are working out how far their GAs can defy market falls

• BlackRock leads pack in Bermuda insurers' investment outsourcing

  11 July 2019

  Independent manager battling with affiliated houses for general account work, Insurance Risk Data finds

• Brexit plans fuel Luxembourg fund industry growth

  24 January 2019

  More than half of newly licensed financial services companies are ‘Brexit relocations’