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

  • 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

  • Sompo CFO takes hefty pay-cut in wake of Bigmotor scandal

    05 March 2024

    Masahiro Hamada criticised cross-shareholding in outsourcing partner

  • Comment - Is it right when insurers publish details of top staff getting pay-cuts?

    05 March 2024

    From Allianz's Oliver Bäte to Sompo's Mikio Okumura, top managers at insurers realise the importance of broadcasting pay-cuts, when necessary

  • Comment: Will Japan's FSA succeed where hedge fund activists once failed?

    22 February 2024

    Japan's financial regulator is unpicking a web of shareholdings once decried, in vain, by a UK hedgie

  • Sompo brands strategic equities a "Japanese governance issue", which it plans to axe

    19 February 2024

    Incoming CEO wants "nothing" of such holdings, as sell-down accelerates