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  • Moody's welcomes extra scrutiny by Japan's watchdogs of insurers' private credit

    11 November 2024

    Lifers have liberated capital for re-use, from lowering interest rate risk

  • APAC Weekly - How Japan's life insurers reach out for private markets investments

    20 August 2024

    Project finance, property and large-cap loans are among areas cited by Moody's as being of interest to CIOs

  • Japan's CIOs have alternatives managers in their sights

    17 April 2024

    The 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

  • Japanese life insurers' capitalisation improved in H1 2020 but still weak to market shocks

    04 December 2020

    Movement away from domestic bonds to foreign becoming increasingly transparent

  • Foreign bond buying boosts profits at Japan life firms

    03 December 2018

    But Moody's warns of credit and FX risk

  • Japanese life insurers show resilience to ultra-low rates

    11 December 2017

    Almost exactly one year after Moody's downgraded its outlook for Japanese life insurers to negative, it has returned its outlook to 'stable'