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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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Strategic stake sell-downs "positive" for credit profile of Japan's major non-lifers
30 July 2024S&P Global Ratings expects the proceeds to be major profit driver for sellers this year
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APAC Weekly - What Japan's insurers are about to learn, from Robert the Bruce and a spider
30 July 2024In Japan both lifers and general insurers are facing monumental changes from unwinds of strategic investments underway
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Comment: MS&AD treaded carefully in the minefield of unwinding its cross-holdings
24 July 2024Other Japanese insurers will be wise to follow suit, in describing their 'unwinding' plans
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Tokio Marine announces JPY 57bn tender offer for strategic equity investment by Toyota
24 July 2024Move follows similar announcement about cross-holdings yesterday at MS&AD
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MS&AD reveals terms for unwinding strategic stake with Toyota
23 July 2024Large non-life Japanese peers are also planning sell-offs of their own
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The Big Reveal - insurers demand look-through...but reply in kind
08 November 2022CIOs 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
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Varma uses Nomura and Solactive ETF in Japan outsourcing move
20 April 2022ETF holds mid- and small-caps of low emitters
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US insurers timidly assessing climate risk
14 December 2020From 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.
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LGIM announces exclusions from its £5bn Future World Funds
12 June 2018Legal & 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.
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