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  • Sumitomo Life invests in good sleeping habits

    04 July 2024

    Japanese lifer is backing developer of wearable tech for healthy sleeping

  • Sumitomo Life issues sustainability-linked loan under new financing framework

    21 June 2024

    Five-year loan links to GHG cuts by Nippon Thomson

  • Sumitomo Life chucks cash for foreign securities and domestic stocks

    24 May 2024

    AuM grew to JPY 37.4trn in FY 24

  • Sumitomo and SBI Life fund buys into non-cognitive skills promotion

    10 May 2024

    Investee Energize will help develop businesses for childhood education

  • Newton IP wins Japanese insurance engagement outsourcing

    30 April 2024

    As part of insurer's emerging managers programme

  • Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

    17 April 2024

    The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers

  • Comment - When police only tell insurers half the story (about natcats)

    13 March 2024

    Insurers have a role to play in mitigating natcat losses - and Japan shows just how broadly they define their responsibility

  • Chart of the Week - To JGB or not to JGB?

    01 March 2024

    That's not the question for outsourcing Japanese CIOs, apparently, seeking new managers

  • Sumitomo Life joins NA100 and PRI Spring

    09 February 2024

    Follows registration as TNFD adopter last month

  • Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans

    29 January 2024

    Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets