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  • Insurers cautious but unalarmed by equities volatility

    06 August 2024

    RLAM says investor nervousness on the US recession risk may be overstated

  • Japanese insurers views' vindicated as BoJ hikes again

    31 July 2024

    Meiji Yasuda AM and Tokio Marine AM had flagged higher rates in future

  • Stagnant consumption may limit BoJ's rate hiking plans, predicts Tokio Marine

    16 July 2024

    MetLife Japan survey finds saving, not spending, bonuses is on consumers' agenda

  • LGIM renewables fund buys minority stake in offshore windfarm

    02 May 2024

    Acquisition represents L&G NTR Clean Power (Europe) Fund's first UK deal

  • Tokio Marine affiliated manager foresees 10-year JGB yields at 1.5%

    26 March 2024

    TMAM expects "at least one" more interest rate hike in 2024

  • Japanese insurers have JPY 4trn in outstanding LIBOR contracts

    10 September 2020

    Insurers better prepared for benchmark transition than banks, Japanese regulator survey finds

  • Japan regulator reveals insurers' JPY 32trn Libor challenge

    16 March 2020

    All but JPY 6trn of underwriters' asset and investment exposure runs through 2021

  • Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

    30 August 2017

    With negative-yielding domestic bonds, a back book with high return guarantees and a prudential solvency regulation on the horizon, Japanese life insurers are caught between a rock and a hard place. David Turner reports.

  • Why bond market liquidity is back on the worry list

    28 September 2016

    JP Morgan Asset Management's Prashant Sharma and Bryan Wallace on why insurance investors must accept structurally lower liquidity in bond markets, and how they can navigate the new asset landscape.

  • Fitch goes negative on Japanese insurers' foreign bond buying

    12 December 2014

    Currency and ALM risk increasing