Archive

  • Comment: 'Why not give us more money?' How stock analysts piled pressure on Sompo at 1H results

    21 November 2024

    CFO Masahiro Hamada politely answered one underlying question from analysts yesterday

  • Tokio Marine steps up strategic equity sell-down plans

    20 November 2024

    Group has made JPY 606bn worth of sales already, in half-year to September

  • Sompo doubles the pace of strategic share sales in H1

    20 November 2024

    CFO vows not to decelerate further offloads, and doubles full-year target to JPY 400bn

  • Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

    20 November 2024

    Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions

  • Chart of the Week - Japan's largest groups reveal GA changes after strategic equity sales

    15 November 2024

    All Japan's large non-life insurers are eliminating their long-term cross-holdings in other companies

  • APAC Weekly - Japan's insurers seek fresh business (and investments) beyond the horizon

    05 November 2024

    A 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

  • Sompo International reveals illiquidity in alternative fund holdings

    26 August 2024

    But income from alts funds jumps 19% in 2023

  • Partner Re appoints Mike Huff as CIO

    22 August 2024

    Joining from TIAA, and replacing Thomas Leone who replaced retiring Mark Silverstein at Sompo

  • MS&AD, Sompo and Tokio Marine untangle JPY 317bn of strategic equities in June quarter

    15 August 2024

    Solvency levels of groups rose despite the sell-downs

  • APAC Weekly - European M&A sits high on APAC insurers' agendas (and, seemingly, vice versa, too)

    13 August 2024

    But Allianz's Singapore deal shows 'two can play that game'