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Japanese insurers invest in IBRD green bond

Accounting for over half of the bond's total issuance

Sumitomo invests in sustainability-linked syndicated loan

Sumitomo Life invests ¥10bn in gender bond

Aims to promote gender equality and empowerment of women

Sumitomo Life to loan ¥3bn to biomass power generation business

Part of a syndicated loan agreement of ¥28bn total

Comment: What about the 'how' of net zero?

As insurers pledge allegiance to the net-zero kingdom, for all their willingness and honesty, the 'how' of reaching carbon neutrality remains a mystery, Vincent Huck writes.

Asia's pathway to net-zero

Practitioners in Asia's insurance landscape see change on net zero being led by larger underwriters and spurred by the Paris Agreement, COVID-19, their governments' own climate ambitions, and global warming's physical and transition threats. David Walker reports

Investing drives ever more of Japanese life insurers' core profits

Dai-ichi Life only underwriter to report higher core profit in 2020

Three Japanese life insurers reveal asset allocation plans

Two looking to increase allocation to domestic bonds, while third has no plans to change

Sumitomo Life invests $100m in BlackRock Real Assets green fund

Infrastructure fund to focus on solar and wind power generation plants in OECD countries

MS&AD vows to keep cutting strategic equity

While Japanese rivals Orix Life and Sumitomo Life are adding to PE