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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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Nine insurers amongst 164 firms in Japanese TCFD consortium
03 June 2019Three affiliated asset managers also in the group
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LGIM becomes a more 'rebellious' shareholder
16 April 2019The UK insurer’s investment arm has increased its number of votes against management as well as shareholder resolutions
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Japan Post Insurance boosts ESG equities investing
19 March 2019And vouch to insource 20% of its overall equity investments
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Japanese insurers sign up to stewardship code
09 July 2018Committing to principles for responsible institutional investors
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Japan Post Insurance is sole investor in World Bank's SDG bond
28 June 2018A CAD60m 10-year Eurobond dedicated to improving the lives of women and children.
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LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds
12 June 2018Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.
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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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Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds
26 April 2017Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say
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Japanese pension interest in hard assets contagious for insurers, says AMP Capital
12 April 2017Affiliate manager expects global deployment of capital into infrastructure and property