Archive

  • T&D Financial Life helps customers see the future of their investments - using AI

    27 February 2024

    Japanese lifer is offering an AI engine to foretell direction of fund unit prices

  • Insurers lead South Korea financial firms in KRW 32trn foreign property allocations

    27 February 2024

    Financial Supervisory Service has published data for September

  • Comment: Share prices suggest insurers' shareholders might not care much about the 'G' in ESG

    26 February 2024

    Shareholders of Japan's insurers pocketed 150% since Q1 2020 while the Topix made 98% - so do the sector's governance issues matter?

  • Life sciences real estate flourishing but in need of careful tending

    26 February 2024

    Pandemic-induced awareness of biotech R&D combined with long-term demographic trends have put life sciences real estate in the spotlight, but investment here is both delicate

  • Pimco earns €2m a day in performance fees in 2023

    23 February 2024

    Voya IM pays €29m dividend

  • Nippon Life plans foreign bond buying for foreign-FX endowment insurance

    23 February 2024

    Among other insurers YoY foreign-FX exposure is fairly immobile

  • Eastspring Investments appoints Vis Nayar as CIO

    22 February 2024

    To take over from Bill Maldonado, current CEO

  • '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

  • Irdai statistics reveal private sector lifers' enthusiasm for infrastructure

    20 February 2024

    Non-state firms' proportion of life fund allocations to real assets double that of state-owned rival

  • T&D Life, Japan Post Insurance and Nippon Life join buyers of Tokyo's 'GX' transition debt

    20 February 2024

    Bond aims to raise JPY 20bn for nation's JPY 150trn decarbonisation push