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Comment: 'Why not give us more money?' How stock analysts piled pressure on Sompo at 1H results
21 November 2024CFO Masahiro Hamada politely answered one underlying question from analysts yesterday
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Tokio Marine steps up strategic equity sell-down plans
20 November 2024Group has made JPY 606bn worth of sales already, in half-year to September
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Sompo doubles the pace of strategic share sales in H1
20 November 2024CFO vows not to decelerate further offloads, and doubles full-year target to JPY 400bn
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Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results
20 November 2024Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions
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Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales
15 November 2024All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies
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APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon
05 November 2024A trend gaining quite some traction is overseas expansion, among both general and life insurers as buyers, from Japan, involving a fairly widely-spread mix of targets
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Sompo International reveals illiquidity in alternative fund holdings
26 August 2024But income from alts funds jumps 19% in 2023
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Partner Re appoints Mike Huff as CIO
22 August 2024Joining from TIAA, and replacing Thomas Leone who replaced retiring Mark Silverstein at Sompo
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MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter
15 August 2024Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs
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APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)
13 August 2024But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'