Asia Pacific

  • Japan's earthquake reinsurer backs gender-based project bond

    29 November 2024

    Five-year bond carries 0.82% coupon

  • Nippon Life LP backs local AI healthcare start-up to combat "serious labour shortage"

    28 November 2024

    Zest focuses on AI for in-home and nursing care

  • Sompo increases full-year investment income expectations

    28 November 2024

    Full-year income will have almost doubled since 2020 fiscal year

  • Tokio Marine expects $1.2bn CECL provisions for CRE loan portfolio

    27 November 2024

    Japanese composite forecasting a 10.4% capital loss ratio for portfolio

  • Asia's investors, and markets, take a breather after Trump's victory

    27 November 2024

    Meanwhile, Tokio Marine AM's space-equities fund rockets 43% in 12 months

  • South Korea's ABL Life invests SKR 14.2bn in insurance agency subsidiary

    26 November 2024

    Tokio Marine has also injected more investment capital into a local unit

  • APAC Weekly - Asia's insurers air post-January 2025 scenarios for 'Trump, the sequel'

    26 November 2024

    Industry questions whether 'Trump trade' is a leading indicator

  • Fukoku Life voices concern about China's non-performing property loans

    25 November 2024

    Japanese lifer also concerned at looming trade wars

  • Manulife names new wealth and AM head, from Citi

    21 November 2024

    Incumbent Michael Dommermuth is leaving next month

  • Hanwha Life gets US financial sector foothold with acquisition

    21 November 2024

    Lifer takes 75% stake in the parent of Velocity Clearing

  • Comment: 'Why not give us more money?' How stock analysts piled pressure on Sompo at 1H results

    21 November 2024

    CFO Masahiro Hamada politely answered one underlying question from analysts yesterday

  • Tokio Marine steps up strategic equity sell-down plans

    20 November 2024

    Group has made JPY 606bn worth of sales already, in half-year to September

  • Sompo doubles the pace of strategic share sales in H1

    20 November 2024

    CFO vows not to decelerate further offloads, and doubles full-year target to JPY 400bn

  • Investments blow tailwinds in three MS&AD units, in 1H results

    20 November 2024

    Bond-value recoveries, equity sell-downs and better results benefit non-life, life and foreign divisions

  • APAC Weekly: 'Speed up the machine' re/insurers in Singapore ask, is there anything generative-AI cannot do for us?

    19 November 2024

    The race is on to apply Gen-AI - and to get more data to feed it