Asia Pacific

  • Nippon Life makes first green loan to local financial firm

    03 January 2025

    The JPY 300m facility was lifer's first such loan

  • Nippon Life and AXA Life team up on unit-linked policy sales

    03 January 2025

    Japanese insurers have collaborated on health business for 10 years

  • M&G's Catalyst backs Tyme Group's Asia expansion

    02 January 2025

    Invests $50m in fund's first Southeast Asia deal

  • Japanese insurers flock to country's Asset Owner Principles

    02 January 2025

    Government distributed precepts for institutional investors in August

  • Taiju Life backs IBRD sustainable development bond

    02 January 2025

    Lifer has targeted 15 years' duration in three recent fixed income allocations

  • Japan Post progresses property outsourcing goal worth "several hundred billion yen"

    02 January 2025

    Daido Life is also expanding its local real estate portfolio

  • APAC Weekly - The Year in Review, and the Year Ahead

    31 December 2024

    APAC's re/insurance industry and landscape for cover gave endless stories of change, many of prudent management, and of thoughtful industry leaders

  • Sun Life appoints Benjamin Deng as president, Asia asset management

    30 December 2024

    Deng joins from Ping An Insurance, effective from 1 January

  • Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

    30 December 2024

    CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built

  • Chart of the Week - Academics urge banks to join insurers on climate change threat

    27 December 2024

    Stakeholders in the insurance industry increasingly see collaboration with other stakeholders in countries' property stock as vital, to face down climate change

  • Reduced capital bill for shares boosts Japan insurers' solvency since March

    25 December 2024

    FSA says lower capital requirement by September benefitted capital adequacy

  • Nippon Life flags greater outsourcing to improve investment returns

    24 December 2024

    Japanese lifer will add about $85bn to portfolio if Resolution purchase proceeds

  • APAC Weekly - 'Thanks for that job interview,' says the smiling APAC CEO - 'we'll text you, yeah?'

    24 December 2024

    Re/insurers join 'generation Insta' in slay bid for rizz, to woo Gen-Z employees

  • SBI Life backs Tokyo University, and trade in Africa, with sustainable bond investments

    23 December 2024

    Japanese lifer announced the two separate investments this month

  • Mirova participates in AUD 72m fundraise for Australian EV firm

    20 December 2024

    Makes equity investment in JET Charge via Mirova Energy Transition Fund 6