Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Whether it's CIOs, CEOs, or CUOs, the imperative these days seems to be "diversify!"

    18 February 2025

    From investments in China to underwriting risks in Japan, APAC's insurers are spreading their risks - with one notable exception

  • 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

  • MS&AD more than triples gains on securities sales as keiretsu sell-off continues

    17 February 2025

    Japan's large groups are offloading strategic equity stakes known as keiretsu

  • Strategic investment sell-downs behind raise in earnings forecast for Tokio Marine

    17 February 2025

    Group had made JPY 701bn of capital gains from JPY 781bn sales by December

  • APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...

    04 February 2025

    India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?

  • APAC Weekly - The importance of 'spirit of place' in APAC insurers' altruism

    28 January 2025

    Across the region, and beyond it, insurers are benefitting locations important to them - and not just for commercial ends

  • Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

    17 January 2025

    Fund invests in research via underlying Candriam product

  • Tokio Marine launches delisting M&A deal for local business consultancy

    06 January 2025

    Integrated Design & Engineering's shares now trade just JPY 10 below offer price

  • APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

    03 December 2024

    It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

  • Tokio Marine expects $1.2bn CECL provisions for CRE loan portfolio

    27 November 2024

    Japanese composite forecasting a 10.4% capital loss ratio for portfolio