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  • Asia Investor Group on Climate Change appoints energy transition manager

    27 January 2025

    Minako Takaba will oversee alliance's energy transition activities from Tokyo

  • Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'

    04 December 2024

    Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too

  • APAC Weekly - Is outsourcing being instrumentalised for national strategies?

    03 December 2024

    It seems infrastructure is not the only kind of investment activity an APAC insurer's CIO can now do, to 'help the nation'

  • Nippon Life makes first start-up investment with JPY 5bn LP

    13 August 2024

    Nippon AM and Nissay Capital have JPY 35bn funds for local, early-stage investments

  • Nippon Life makes recruitment push for investment sales staff

    06 March 2024

    Japanese lifer's affiliate aiming to support Tokyo's national asset management ambitions

  • Nippon Life plans VC and start-up fund investments

    23 February 2024

    Plans hatched as insurers trumpet emerging manager allocations

  • 2020 Asia Outlook: Unthreading the Asian patchwork

    15 January 2020

    Ever a patchwork of underwriting industries, the insurers of Asia will go their own ways when investing in 2020, as demands of performance, new regulation and even mild governmental cajoling come to play in varying degrees in the different jurisdictions. By David Walker