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  • 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

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • APAC Weekly - How insurers' involvement with reinsurers is deepening, and broadening

    04 March 2025

    Not only a 'lifesaver' for APAC's CUOs, reinsurers are becoming targets for APAC CIOs

  • T&D Insurance Group units join impact finance declaration

    11 October 2024

    Taiyo Life was already Japan's first lifer to join UN PRI, in 2007

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors

  • T&D Life, Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life join buyers of Tokyo's 'GX' transition debt

    20 February 2024

    Bond aims to raise JPY 20bn for nation's JPY 150trn decarbonisation push

  • Global insurers sign up to PRI Advance initiative

    02 December 2022

    A collaborative stewardship initiative on social issues and human rights

  • Three Japanese life insurers reveal asset allocation plans

    26 April 2021

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

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster

  • Taiyo Life Insurance gives ¥2 billion green loan to to NYK

    03 January 2019

    Japanese life insurer to finance construction of methanol-fuelled chemical tanker

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