Archive

• Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

  03 April 2025

  Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

• APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community

  01 April 2025

  About 1,700 people are confirmed dead, so far, from Friday's earthquake

• DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers

  14 March 2025

  DEI policies offer more than a feel-good factor for Asia's underwriters. They're profit-drivers

• Sompo plans hybrid bond buying as equity sale proceeds accelerate

  13 March 2025

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

• Dai-ichi Life to put property businesses into JV with Marubeni Corp

  03 March 2025

  Japanese group wants to expand real estate investing faster than organic growth allows

• 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

• Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

  17 January 2025

  Fund invests in research via underlying Candriam product

• MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

  15 August 2024

  Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

• APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

  02 July 2024

  From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

• Sompo CFO takes hefty pay-cut in wake of Bigmotor scandal

  05 March 2024

  Masahiro Hamada criticised cross-shareholding in outsourcing partner