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• 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'

• Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

  03 April 2025

  Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

• MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

  15 August 2024

  Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

• Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

  30 July 2024

  S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year

• APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

  30 July 2024

  In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway

• Comment: MS&AD treaded carefully in the minefield of unwinding its cross-holdings

  24 July 2024

  Other Japanese insurers will be wise to follow suit, in describing their 'unwinding' plans

• Tokio Marine announces JPY 57bn tender offer for strategic equity investment by Toyota

  24 July 2024

  Move follows similar announcement about cross-holdings yesterday at MS&AD

• MS&AD reveals terms for unwinding strategic stake with Toyota

  23 July 2024

  Large non-life Japanese peers are also planning sell-offs of their own

• The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind

  08 November 2022

  CIOs might require fund managers to 'show what they've got', to examine holdings and reduce various Solvency II capital charges - but increasingly transparency is working both ways, David Walker unearths

• Varma uses Nomura and Solactive ETF in Japan outsourcing move

  20 April 2022

  ETF holds mid- and small-caps of low emitters