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Axa gets regulator's nod for Japan mergers, and JPY 7.9trn combined asset pot
19 March 2024Strengthening financial base is one rationale for local M&A
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Comment - How Japan's insurers are making some very 'long-term investments', in society
12 March 2024It seems few insurance industries are as committed to their societies in times of natcats, as Japan's
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Axa IM appoints Catherine Tennyson as healthcare portfolio manager
11 March 2024Who joins from Point 72 Asset Management
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Axa IM Alts secures £480m construction loan for City of London prime office scheme
11 March 2024Six-year facility from Cale Street will fund development of 36-storey building on Fenchurch Street
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Chart of the Week - To JGB or not to JGB?
01 March 2024That's not the question for outsourcing Japanese CIOs, apparently, seeking new managers
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Axa IM appoints new head of global rates
27 February 2024Jérôme Broustra takes on role after two decades at the company
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Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG
26 February 2024Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?
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Chart of the Week - How IMAs could spell out the future of PE ownership of insurers
23 February 2024Fee rates, and other T&Cs in the IMAs of PE houses and the consolidators they own, may attract (unwanted) regulatory attention
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Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance
23 February 2024Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile
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Thomas Buberl courts alternative asset managers able to enhance Axa's position
22 February 2024Life book actions are ended, heralding stabilisation of asset management outflows after 2023