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Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond
02 January 2025Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations
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Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"
02 January 2025Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio
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APAC Weekly - The Year in Review, and the Year Ahead
31 December 2024APAC's re/insurance industry and landscape for cover gave endless stories of change, many of prudent management, and of thoughtful industry leaders
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Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)
30 December 2024CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built
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Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat
27 December 2024Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change
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Chinese regulator updates rules to assess riskiness of equity investment managers
26 December 2024Sweeping reforms of asset-risk assessment by insurers will take effect from next July
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Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March
25 December 2024FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy
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Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns
24 December 2024Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds
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APAC Weekly - 'Thanks for that job interview,' says the smiling APAC CEO - 'we'll text you, yeah?'
24 December 2024Re/insurers join 'generation Insta' in slay bid for rizz, to woo Gen-Z employees
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SBI Life backs Tokyo University, and trade in Africa, with sustainable bond investments
23 December 2024Japanese lifer announced the two separate investments this month
- APAC Weekly - Myanmar's (uninsured) disaster will test the humanity of global community
- IAR Real Assets: Insurers "walking away" from infra transactions due to pricing
- AIG to increase private assets allocation to boost slowing investment income
- Blackstone-backed Ki syndicate at Lloyd's fires for alternatives manager
- Japan Post Insurance cedes asset risk in $3.7bn Bermuda reinsurance deal
- 'Even bigger than Allianz' - An $11.2trn 'general account' in Europe prepares to tackle climate change
- IAR Real Assets: Market volatility has stunted great start to 2025 for real estate, Phoenix Group says
- IAR Real Assets: Use private market's lack of sentiment to advantage, Munich Re says
- IAR Real Assets: Solvency UK reforms need time to bed-in, ABI says
- Nippon Life begins direct lending to decarbonising companies
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Rothesay appoints Lloyd's of London chair as chair designate
03 April 2025Bruce Carnegie-Brown to take on role from 1 July
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Royal London flags further diversification of £1.8bn MA asset portfolio
03 April 2025UK lifer derived capital benefit from using the adjustment last year, its latest SFCR reveals
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Conning maps out landscape and attractions of esoteric ABS for insurers
03 April 2025From music royalties to container leases, data centres to aircraft leases, esoteric ABS has something to offer every insurer
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L&G-backed impact advisory raises $200m
03 April 2025ImpactA Global adds new public and private capital commitments for funding EM sustainable infrastructure
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M&G appoints new global head of real estate business
03 April 2025After Tony Brown announces retirement