Archive

  • APAC Weekly - Sompo flags more M&A even while its Aspen deal remains live

    02 September 2025

    Japanese group is offering $3.5bn for Bermudian non-lifer

  • COTW - European insurers, and their €63bn of investments, that APAC investors/insurers own

    29 August 2025

    Bermuda hit the headlines for M&A by APAC investors- but they've bought up well in Europe, too

  • Sompo positions Aspen's "capital-light" fee-earning risk-packaging unit in its M&A plans

    28 August 2025

    Japanese group spells out reasons it wants to spend $3.5bn on Aspen

  • Sompo Holdings launches unit for growth investments and venture capital

    04 August 2025

    Department began work on Friday, under Koichi Narasaki

  • DEI is all about valuing staff, and driving earnings at APAC insurers

    14 March 2025

    DEI policies offer more than a feel-good factor for Asia's underwriters. They're profit-drivers

  • Sompo increases full-year investment income expectations

    28 November 2024

    Full-year income will have almost doubled since 2020 fiscal year

  • Sompo CFO takes hefty pay-cut in wake of Bigmotor scandal

    05 March 2024

    Masahiro Hamada criticised cross-shareholding in outsourcing partner

  • Comment: The strong case for ESG investing 'with national characteristics'

    29 February 2024

    From green bonds to "animal attack" insurance, underwriters have an endless list of locally-appropriate ESG actions to take

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Comment: Will Japan's FSA succeed where hedge fund activists once failed?

    22 February 2024

    Japan's financial regulator is unpicking a web of shareholdings once decried, in vain, by a UK hedgie