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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share
24 March 2025It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion
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A 'Happy Future' for Viridium and its new owners including BlackRock?
20 March 2025Cinven is selling out of German life consolidator to insurers and manager, in €3.5bn deal
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Nippon Life shifts GA assets to build Nissay AM's life investment skills
11 March 2025Nippon Life and Taiju Life already moved some assets to the affiliate
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Chart of the Week: Asset managers and insurers 'partner up' in $60bn M&A game
07 March 2025Historically manager/insurer deals were ' you run my assets, I pay you fees'. Some deal structures today are almost unrecognisable to those bygone times
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Dai-ichi Life to put property businesses into JV with Marubeni Corp
03 March 2025Japanese group wants to expand real estate investing faster than organic growth allows
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APAC Weekly - Whether it's CIOs, CEOs, or CUOs, the imperative these days seems to be "diversify!"
18 February 2025From investments in China to underwriting risks in Japan, APAC's insurers are spreading their risks - with one notable exception
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Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana
12 February 2025Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life also investing in Tokyo-based firm
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APAC Weekly - Japan's lifers discover new life business overseas
11 February 2025In adding its name to Japanese insurers doing foreign M&A, Meiji Yasuda Life might also be adding LGIM to its list of outsourcing managers
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Nippon Life joins TISFD
10 February 2025Board special advisor Takeshi Kimura appointed to steering committee
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APAC Weekly - India opens GA-floodgates for local investments, or maybe not...
04 February 2025India's federal budget for 2025/2026 is removing the FDI cap for insurers, but with GA-strings attached. CUOs may love it, but will CIOs take the bait?