Archive

  • Sumitomo and SBI Life fund buys into non-cognitive skills promotion

    10 May 2024

    Investee Energize will help develop businesses for childhood education

  • 'Great foreign-FX sell-off' misfires among Japan's insurers in 2023

    20 February 2024

    Asset management solvency-risk amounts rise by 17% from March to December

  • Irdai statistics reveal private sector lifers' enthusiasm for infrastructure

    20 February 2024

    Non-state firms' proportion of life fund allocations to real assets double that of state-owned rival

  • Meiji Yasuda Life plans "full-scale" introduction of generative AI from April

    25 January 2024

    While revealing how it already use the technology in its investments

  • Amundi threatens to divest State Bank of India's green bonds over coal project

    30 November 2020

    "When we face controversies, we engage, and if the engagement is unsuccessful, we divest," asset manager of Crédit Agricole Assurances says

  • MS&AD vows to keep cutting strategic equity

    24 November 2020

    While Japanese rivals Orix Life and Sumitomo Life are adding to PE

  • Sumitomo Life and SBI Investment create joint venture fund

    20 November 2020

    To invest in start-ups including wellness companies