Archive

• 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

• Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

  11 November 2024

  Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

• APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments

  20 August 2024

  Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs

• Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

  17 April 2024

  The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers

• Japanese life insurers' capitalisation improved in H1 2020 but still weak to market shocks

  04 December 2020

  Movement away from domestic bonds to foreign becoming increasingly transparent

• Foreign bond buying boosts profits at Japan life firms

  03 December 2018

  But Moody's warns of credit and FX risk

• Japanese life insurers show resilience to ultra-low rates

  11 December 2017

  Almost exactly one year after Moody's downgraded its outlook for Japanese life insurers to negative, it has returned its outlook to 'stable'