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  • Comment: 'Why not give us more money?' How stock analysts piled pressure on Sompo at 1H results

    21 November 2024

    CFO Masahiro Hamada politely answered one underlying question from analysts yesterday

  • Tokio Marine steps up strategic equity sell-down plans

    20 November 2024

    Group has made JPY 606bn worth of sales already, in half-year to September

  • Sompo doubles the pace of strategic share sales in H1

    20 November 2024

    CFO vows not to decelerate further offloads, and doubles full-year target to JPY 400bn

  • Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

    20 November 2024

    Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions

  • From GA investments to presidential elections, forces that blow gusts can really pack a punch

    18 November 2024

    Hurricane Helene blows holes in Florida's general account - while Florida's 'air-con revolution' might just have fanned Donald Trump's win

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • Canada Life completes £70m buy-in with West Bromwich Building Society

    06 November 2024

    Secures benefits of 490 deferred members and 400 pensioner members

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

    05 November 2024

    A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets

  • LGIM's £12bn pension risk transfer goldmine for Legal & General

    31 October 2024

    Some relationships with PRT clients stretch back over 25 years

  • L&G takes stake in real estate private equity firm in US multifamily RE push

    25 October 2024

    As well as $200m seed capital commitment in Taurus Investment Holdings