Archive

  • Japan Post Insurance nudges up alternatives allocation in June quarter

    14 August 2024

    But bonds still dominate its JPY 113.3trn general account

  • APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

    30 July 2024

    In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway

  • Japan Post Insurance plans "restructure" of assets as country leaves zero-inflation

    29 July 2024

    Shares, infrastructure and property on lifer's wish-list

  • APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

    02 July 2024

    From strategic investments to staff being arrested, it seems Japan's insurers can't stop apologising

  • Impact Capital gets JPY 3bn outsourcing deal from Japan Post Insurance

    03 June 2024

    Allocation follows MOU between insurer and local university

  • Japan Post Insurance establishes real estate and responsible investment offices

    27 March 2024

    As part of its medium-term plan to 2025

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors

  • 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

  • Springing back to life - JGB yields help Japan's CIOs repatriate GAs

    01 March 2023

    It'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

  • Global insurers sign up to PRI Advance initiative

    02 December 2022

    A collaborative stewardship initiative on social issues and human rights