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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share
24 March 2025It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion
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Nippon Life shifts GA assets to build Nissay AM's life investment skills
11 March 2025Nippon Life and Taiju Life already moved some assets to the affiliate
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Sompo cites accelerated strategic divestments for best ever December quarter
17 February 2025Japanese group also sold JPY 21.3bn of local bonds as rates start rising
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Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March
25 December 2024FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?
03 December 2024It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'
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Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results
20 November 2024Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions
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APAC Weekly - Sensitive data keeps leaking at Japan's 'porous' non-lifers
03 September 2024Malign hackers blameless in recent spillages of sensitive customer data
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Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers
30 July 2024S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year
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APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider
30 July 2024In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway