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

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

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

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

APAC weekly - Japanese insurers in full 'sorry mode', including for past investments

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

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?

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

Meiji Yasuda's ESG direct lending tops JPY 50bn

Meiji Yasuda Life makes locally-beneficial fund investment

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

Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans

Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets

Meiji Yasuda Life plans "full-scale" introduction of generative AI from April

While revealing how it already use the technology in its investments

Japan's fossil fuel puzzle

Japan's progress to sustainable investing has been a slow one. The country remains hampered by a largely fossil fuel-dependent economy, a puzzling challenge for insurers.