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  • 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

  • Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers

    30 July 2024

    S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year

  • APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider

    30 July 2024

    In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway

  • Comment: MS&AD treaded carefully in the minefield of unwinding its cross-holdings

    24 July 2024

    Other Japanese insurers will be wise to follow suit, in describing their 'unwinding' plans

  • Tokio Marine announces JPY 57bn tender offer for strategic equity investment by Toyota

    24 July 2024

    Move follows similar announcement about cross-holdings yesterday at MS&AD

  • MS&AD reveals terms for unwinding strategic stake with Toyota

    23 July 2024

    Large non-life Japanese peers are also planning sell-offs of their own

  • The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind

    08 November 2022

    CIOs might require fund managers to 'show what they've got', to examine holdings and reduce various Solvency II capital charges - but increasingly transparency is working both ways, David Walker unearths

  • Varma uses Nomura and Solactive ETF in Japan outsourcing move

    20 April 2022

    ETF holds mid- and small-caps of low emitters

  • US insurers timidly assessing climate risk

    14 December 2020

    From increasingly fierce wildfires in California to recurring hurricane hits to the country's southern and eastern seaboards, US insurers are only too familiar with some intensifying effects of climate change, but are they doing anything about it? David Walker takes the temperature.

  • LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds

    12 June 2018

    Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has named the companies it regards as leaders and laggards on climate change issues, as part of its attempt to remove climate-related risk from its £5 billion ($6.7 billion) Future World funds.