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  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • 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

  • Australia's MLC Life appoints new CIO

    19 May 2023

    Incumbent moving to AM in India with lifer's parent, Nippon Life

  • Japanese life insurers show resilience to ultra-low rates

    11 December 2017

    Almost exactly one year after Moody's downgraded its outlook for Japanese life insurers to negative, it has returned its outlook to 'stable'