Archive

  • 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

  • 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

  • MS&AD reveals investment plans for proceeds from strategic equity sales

    11 November 2024

    Japanese composite also reveals outsourcing plans for portfolio

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers bare their teeth, when necessary, in shareholder votes

    11 October 2024

    From climate to female-friendliness, scandals to poison pill defences, Japan's insurers explain when they back, or reject, investees

  • MS Amlin appoints head of capital management and investments

    23 September 2024

    Emma Snowdon joins from Direct Line Group

  • APAC Weekly - Sensitive data keeps leaking at Japan's 'porous' non-lifers

    03 September 2024

    Malign hackers blameless in recent spillages of sensitive customer data

  • Tokio Marine and MS&AD announce first step in disentangling equity cross-holdings

    27 August 2024

    Japan's majors are unravelling their stakes, chiefly with Toyota

  • MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

    15 August 2024

    Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

  • APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)

    13 August 2024

    But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'

  • Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

    30 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year