Archive

  • Comment - A good time for insurers to divest Japanese cross-shareholdings?

    09 April 2025

    In turbulent times, major Japanese insurers are trying to work out what price is fair, to unwind significant 'keiretsu'

  • Tokio Marine unit names Mitsubishi in latest $1.3bn strategic-stake sell-off

    03 April 2025

    Insurer will use proceeds for "solving social problems and other growth areas"

  • APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community

    01 April 2025

    About 1,700 people are confirmed dead, so far, from Friday's earthquake

  • Tokio Marine more than triples client engagement over climate emissions

    17 March 2025

    Japanese group aims to be a net-zero emitter by 2050

  • Strategic investment sell-downs behind raise in earnings forecast for Tokio Marine

    17 February 2025

    Group had made JPY 701bn of capital gains from JPY 781bn sales by December

  • APAC Weekly - The importance of 'spirit of place' in APAC insurers' altruism

    28 January 2025

    Across the region, and beyond it, insurers are benefitting locations important to them - and not just for commercial ends

  • Tokio Marine launches delisting M&A deal for local business consultancy

    06 January 2025

    Integrated Design & Engineering's shares now trade just JPY 10 below offer price

  • From GA investments to presidential elections, forces that blow gusts can really pack a punch

    18 November 2024

    Hurricane Helene blows holes in Florida's general account - while Florida's 'air-con revolution' might just have fanned Donald Trump's win

  • 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

  • APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

    30 July 2024

    In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway