Archive

  • 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

  • Tokio Marine AM expects further rate hikes in Japan

    24 February 2025

    Daido Life finds "price stability" is the main wish among Japanese SME owners

  • Daido Life Insurance makes investment in getting Japan's SMEs to net zero

    12 February 2025

    Investment will dovetail with SME sustainability venture lifer runs in-house

  • Tokio Marine AM holds out hope for cure to cancer

    17 January 2025

    Fund invests in research via underlying Candriam product

  • Daido Life finds outsourcing partner for PE investing in local SMEs

    14 January 2025

    Delegation will focus on SMEs with business succession challenges

  • Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"

    02 January 2025

    Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio

  • T&D Insurance Group units join impact finance declaration

    11 October 2024

    Taiyo Life was already Japan's first lifer to join UN PRI, in 2007

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers bare their teeth, when necessary, in shareholder votes

    11 October 2024

    From climate to female-friendliness, scandals to poison pill defences, Japan's insurers explain when they back, or reject, investees

  • '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

  • Daido Life plans allocation to Brookfield transition fund

    18 January 2024

    Article 9 fund is second Brookfield product catching Japanese lifer's eye