Archive

  • T&D Financial Life helps customers see the future of their investments - using AI

    27 February 2024

    Japanese lifer is offering an AI engine to foretell direction of fund unit prices

  • Insurers lead South Korea financial firms in KRW 32trn foreign property allocations

    27 February 2024

    Financial Supervisory Service has published data for September

  • 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?

  • Alpha from outsourcing jumps five-fold since 2023 at Suncorp

    26 February 2024

    But CFO expects it to more than halve in future

  • New head of asset management at Dai-ichi Life

    26 February 2024

    Takashi Iida takes on new role

  • Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance

    23 February 2024

    Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile

  • Nippon Life plans VC and start-up fund investments

    23 February 2024

    Plans hatched as insurers trumpet emerging manager allocations

  • Dai-ichi Life and Tokio Marine ring personnel changes

    23 February 2024

    Appoints new CIO

  • 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

  • 'Great foreign-FX sell-off' misfires among Japan's insurers in 2023

    20 February 2024

    Asset management solvency-risk amounts rise by 17% from March to December