Archive

  • Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies

    01 April 2025

    Japanese lifer collaborating with Asuene

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers may not 'roar' in overseas M&A deals, but increasingly they want the lion's share

    24 March 2025

    It would be misplaced to say the Japanese want back-row seats in global expansion

  • Dai-ichi Life to put property businesses into JV with Marubeni Corp

    03 March 2025

    Japanese group wants to expand real estate investing faster than organic growth allows

  • Meiji Yasuda Life joins list of insurers backing early-stage AI developer Sakana

    12 February 2025

    Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Life also investing in Tokyo-based firm

  • Nippon Life's blue bond investment helps Japan's universities reverse 'lost 30 years'

    25 November 2024

    The JPY 500m purchase was for 20-year paper

  • Aioi Nissay Dowa and Nippon Life partner with Nordea AM on global equity fund

    27 March 2024

    Two insurers put JPY 25bn in new natural capital-focused fund for Japan's institutional investors

  • Nippon Life touts JPY 2trn war chest to help expand asset management overseas

    26 March 2024

    Overseas work currently contributes just 4% to Nippon Life's group core profits

  • Nippon Life sets up JPY 500bn impact loan facility

    25 March 2024

    Programme will focus on health outcomes, Japanese lifer says

  • Nippon Life invests again in prime Tokyo property

    19 March 2024

    Lifer's fourth investment in desirable part of capital

  • Japanese earthquake reinsurer backs transition sovereign bond

    04 March 2024

    Japan Earthquake Reinsurance joins long list of industry investors