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  • Japan Post Insurance faces 5.5% drop in investment income in FY19

    15 May 2020

    Decrease in total amount of assets blamed for fall

  • Embattled Japan Post Insurance finds silver lining to sales-ban cloud

    17 February 2020

    Improving investments help insurer upgrade full-year guidance on income and ordinary profit

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster

  • Nine insurers amongst 164 firms in Japanese TCFD consortium

    03 June 2019

    Three affiliated asset managers also in the group

  • Japan Post Insurance boosts ESG equities investing

    19 March 2019

    And vouch to insource 20% of its overall equity investments

  • Japanese insurers sign up to stewardship code

    09 July 2018

    Committing to principles for responsible institutional investors

  • Japan Post Insurance is sole investor in World Bank's SDG bond

    28 June 2018

    A CAD60m 10-year Eurobond dedicated to improving the lives of women and children.

  • Between a rock and a hard place: Japan's life insurers must invest wisely

    30 August 2017

    With 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.

  • Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds

    26 April 2017

    Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say

  • Japanese pension interest in hard assets contagious for insurers, says AMP Capital

    12 April 2017

    Affiliate manager expects global deployment of capital into infrastructure and property