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Chart of the Week: Japan's affiliates welcome arrival of novel concept - inflation
22 March 2024Insurers' asset managers were expecting the BOJ's rates policy to change, as prices keep rising, sustainably
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Fokoku Life Mutual invests JPY 4.9bn in sustainable development bond
12 March 2024Bond from Inter-American Development Bank for health and employment of Central American women
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Insurance affiliates expect "inflationary cycle" at last, in Japan
01 March 2024The BOJ's 2% target is in reach
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Chart of the week - Fukoku Mutual Life analyses how to survive a pandemic holding shares
09 June 2023Japanese lifer shows what worked and failed, and discusses hedging, or restructuring, 'pandemic portfolios'
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Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs
01 March 2023It's been an awfully long time coming, but yields on long-dated JGBs are becoming genuinely attractive to many Japanese CIOs - maybe for the first time in their careers, David Walker reports
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Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code
30 December 2019However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster
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Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely
30 August 2017With 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.
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Mapfre subscribes to UN's Responsible Investment Principles
09 May 2017List of insurance signatories grows as pressure mounts on industry to invest responsibly
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Nippon Life in maiden overseas project finance loan
01 March 2017Ten-year $100m loan to finance liquefied natural gas project in the US
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Second Japanese firm targets unhedged foreign bonds
13 October 2016Fukoku Mutual Life joins Mitsui in buying foreign bonds without currency hedging