Archive

• Sumitomo Life reveals second well-being-linked investment in a fortnight

  10 June 2025

  Latest commitment for South Korean musculoskeletal treatment developer

• Comment - Will Japanese couples stop giving birth to enough insurance CIOs?

  06 June 2025

  A sense of urgency, if not emergency, surrounds insurers' warnings about falling birthrate

• Allianz invests €100m to Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund

  22 May 2025

  As part of wider $325m funding round, led by AllianzGI

• Investment risk-taking balanced out keiretsu sales' effect on MS&AD's solvency in 2024

  21 May 2025

  Japanese group is selling down strategic holdings, along with Sompo and Tokio Marine

• APAC Weekly: Super long-term JGBs for 'super-long' citizens

  22 April 2025

  Moody's Ratings has mapped out allocation patterns, including to private assets, by Japan's life sector

• Japanese lifers looking for a beacon in the equity markets storm

  16 April 2025

  With 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

• Sumitomo Life ups FY2025 ESG thematic investment target to JPY 1trn

  15 April 2025

  Lifer also expands 2030 asset portfolio GHG emissions reduction target to include all domestic group companies

• Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

  09 April 2025

  In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

• 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

• Mitsui Sumitomo plans major investment in specialty underwriter WR Berkley

  28 March 2025

  Japanese insurer cites profits, geographic diversification and capital efficiency as reasons for investment