Archive

  • Mitsui Sumitomo plans major investment in specialty underwriter WR Berkley

    28 March 2025

    Japanese insurer cites profits, geographic diversification and capital efficiency as reasons for investment

  • 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

  • T&D Holdings to pay JPY 120bn as part of Viridium buyer consortium

    21 March 2025

    Japanese group will hold 29.9% of the life book consolidator if the deal is allowed

  • A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?

    20 March 2025

    Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal

  • Consortium of insurers and asset managers acquire Viridium

    20 March 2025

    Hanover Re is joined by Allianz and BlackRock

  • Blackrock buys Panama ports, amidst choppy political waters

    07 March 2025

    Stake bought from CK Hutchinson, alongside forty other waterways

  • Schroders Capital appoints CIO from BlackRock

    24 February 2025

    Vikram Bhandari to take on newly created role

  • Chart of the Week - In Generali's and BPCE's JV, 'affiliated AM giants' roar to life

    07 February 2025

    BPCE's and Generali's recent tie-up has created a new breed of insurance AM - the 'affiliated juggernaut'

  • Rebuilding LA will take at least a decade, predicts BlackRock's Larry Fink

    16 January 2025

    BlackRock recently exited asset management body fighting climate change

  • Net Zero Asset Managers initiative suspends activities

    14 January 2025

    Following BlackRock's decision to leave group