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

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

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.

Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster

Foreign bond buying boosts profits at Japan life firms

But Moody's warns of credit and FX risk

Japanese insurers hunt en masse for foreign bonds

Local bond investments will be more selective, underwriters say