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Meiji Yasuda Life makes locally-beneficial fund investment
01 February 2024JPY 5bn invested in equity investment trust established and run by affiliate Meiji Yasuda AM
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Comment - BaFin holds cards (close to its chest) in future of German life-book consolidation
01 February 2024PE part-ownership of Viridium seems to have informed regulator's rejection of Zurich deal
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Comment - Are PE owners facing the end of their life backbook consolidation journey?
31 January 2024After BaFin's move on Zurich and Viridium, the future seems uncertain if 'PE ownership' breaks deals
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Nearly 2,000 European insurers have GAs smaller than in Zurich/Viridium's scuppered deal
31 January 2024BaFin has stopped life backbook deal involving €21bn of assets
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Zurich's German life backbook deal, with €21bn assets, with Virdium falls apart
30 January 2024'Project Sander' was to involve investment assets linked to 724,000 policies, German unit's SFCR said
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China Life reveals asset size, and investment plans
30 January 2024Group divulged aspects of its GA at a January conference
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Meiji Yasuda Life reveals private assets and outsourcing plans
29 January 2024Japanese group has over $4bn earmarked for private assets
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Are insurers' outsourcing agreements contracts 'made in heaven'?
29 January 2024Investment management agreements lock in some tasty fees for managers signing on the dotted line, but insurance CIOs increasingly expect a wide scope of 'extras' to boot
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Comment - Evergrande fails to live up to its name, but will China's insurers survive its death-knell?
29 January 2024Hong Kong court today told Chinese property developer seeking a stay of its liquidation, 'enough is enough'
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Chart of the Week - Sumitomo Life's yen for outsourcing, and plans for more of it, in the future
26 January 2024The Japanese lifer has fresh independent asset managers in its sights