Archive

  • Japan Post Insurance picks new manager for local equity investing

    24 March 2025

    Outsourcing will be part of insurer's emerging manager programme

  • Japan Post Insurance eyes bond investments using credit default swaps

    13 March 2025

    JPI wants its asset management permissions to be widened, also for property purchases

  • APAC Weekly - How insurers' involvement with reinsurers is deepening, and broadening

    04 March 2025

    Not only a 'lifesaver' for APAC's CUOs, reinsurers are becoming targets for APAC CIOs

  • Japan Post Insurance plans reinsurance investment worth up to $2bn with KKR unit

    28 February 2025

    Global Atlantic would establish a new reinsurer for JPI's backing

  • Japan Post Insurance set for first emerging manager allocation next month

    27 February 2025

    Life firm has launched an emerging manager programme with Daiwa AM

  • FSA reveals Japanese insurance membership of Stewardship Code

    23 January 2025

    In all, 84 underwriters had signed up by the end of 2024

  • 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