Archive

  • Taiju Life backs Dutch housing with general account

    20 August 2024

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

  • Taiju Life buys into Inter-American Development Bank bond

    25 June 2024

    Proceeds will be assigned to sustainability projects benefitting the Amazon rainforest

  • Nippon Life takes solvency hit for boosting investment risk

    10 June 2024

    Investment yield margin improved in the year to March 2024

  • Nippon Life Group integrates investment capabilities in affiliate asset manager

    17 November 2023

    Partial transfer of Nippon Wealth Life's securities investment is part of Group's diversification goals

  • Taiju Life sets date for asset transfer to Nissay Asset Management

    02 March 2022

    Nippon Life transferred its credit and alternative investment portfolio to the manager last year

  • Moody's Japan raises outlook for Nippon Life and Taiju Life to stable

    16 July 2021

    Companies were downgraded last year on falling asset prices

  • Moody's downgrades Nippon Life's outlook to negative

    22 April 2020

    Low rates, high equity exposure hit Japanese insurer's capitalisation

  • 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

  • Japan's insurers in small minority on stewardship code

    30 December 2019

    However affiliated managers are aplenty on signatory roster

  • Nissay AM to double assets after Nippon Life and Taiju Life deal

    27 December 2019

    Insurers plan transferring credit and alternatives