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Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit
11 November 2024Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk
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APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments
20 August 2024Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs
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Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights
17 April 2024The Bank of Japan may have stolen the limelight last month, but insurance CIOs made headlines as well, with eye-catching allocations to non-mainstream assets and emerging managers
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Japanese life insurers' capitalisation improved in H1 2020 but still weak to market shocks
04 December 2020Movement away from domestic bonds to foreign becoming increasingly transparent
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Foreign bond buying boosts profits at Japan life firms
03 December 2018But Moody's warns of credit and FX risk
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Japanese life insurers show resilience to ultra-low rates
11 December 2017Almost exactly one year after Moody's downgraded its outlook for Japanese life insurers to negative, it has returned its outlook to 'stable'