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  • 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

  • Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'

    04 December 2024

    Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too

  • APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

    02 July 2024

    From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

  • Major Japanese lifers announce environmentally-friendly real asset milestones

    07 May 2024

    Major Japanese lifers announce environmentally-friendly real asset milestones

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster