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  • Meiji Yasuda's start-up fund targets financials firms in latest investments

    13 November 2024

    Commitments to Miive and SmartBank will also entail collaboration with the insurer

  • 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

  • Meiji Yasuda Life acts on GHG emissions with sustainability-linked loan to paper maker

    27 August 2024

    Rate on Japanese firm's lending will be linked to emissions reductions

  • Meiji Yasuda uses start-up fund to invest in regional revitalisation

    01 August 2024

    Tokyo-based Geofla is latest recipient of insurer's CVC fund allocations

  • 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

  • Comment - How Japan's insurers are making some very 'long-term investments', in society

    12 March 2024

    It seems few insurance industries are as committed to their societies in times of natcats, as Japan's

  • Chart of the Week - To JGB or not to JGB?

    01 March 2024

    That's not the question for outsourcing Japanese CIOs, apparently, seeking new managers

  • Meiji Yasuda's ESG direct lending tops JPY 50bn

    07 February 2024
  • Meiji Yasuda Life makes locally-beneficial fund investment

    01 February 2024

    JPY 5bn invested in equity investment trust established and run by affiliate Meiji Yasuda AM

  • Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans

    29 January 2024

    Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets