Archive

  • Sumitomo Life backs elite sport-tech SME, to help Japan's broader workforce

    11 March 2025

    Tokyo-based investee Euphoria has worked for national-level athletes

  • Sumitomo Life outsources local PE investing to emerging management house

    06 February 2025

    D Capital managers had "extensive track record in their previous jobs," lifer says

  • Sumitomo Life outsources for local PE/buyout exposure growth

    20 January 2025

    Japanese lifer positions fund purchase as boost for emerging managers

  • Sumitomo Life makes post-IPO investment in medical and nursing provider Eucalia

    16 December 2024

    Insurer's JPY 1bn commitment was made through a government fund promoting early-stage investment

  • 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'

  • 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

  • Taiju Life backs Dutch housing with general account

    20 August 2024

    Lifer follows in footsteps of Mitsui Life, in social housing bond purchase

  • Sumitomo Life puts JPY 1bn behind its first university VC firm allocation

    13 August 2024

    Tokyo's Keio University gave birth to the KII Impact Fund

  • GSAM and Digital Bridge win fund-based infrastructure mandates in Japan

    06 August 2024

    Sumitomo Life and Dai-ichi Life are making separate infrastructure fund investments

  • APAC insurance groups reveal better investment outcomes for Bermudian subsidiaries

    05 August 2024

    From outsourcing to equity beta data to income leaps, APAC-owned Bermudians reported on an investment job well done, in 2023