Archive

  • MS&AD to sell 15% Challenger stake to Dai-ichi Life unit in Australia

    07 April 2025

    Seller expects greater capital efficiency from the sale

  • AM Best predicts capital optimising from Japanese asset-intensive reinsurance deals

    07 April 2025

    US insurers wrote $290bn GWP for Japanese owners since 2019

  • MS&AD announces plans to merge two non-life units in 2027

    31 March 2025

    MSI and ANDI will be Japan's biggest non-life insurer on current premium volumes

  • Mitsui Sumitomo to acquire 15% of specialty underwriter W.R. Berkley

    28 March 2025

    Japanese insurer cites profits, diversification and capital efficiency as reasons for M&A

  • FSA warns Japan's insurers to uphold governance amid global expansion

    02 January 2025

    Internal audit and governance must be enhanced as operations expand, watchdog says

  • Buyer be where? Japanese insurers look beyond the horizon, for M&A deals

    04 December 2024

    The rewards for Japan's insurers of overseas M&A include risk diversification, new customers and profit enhancement - but stakeholders tell David Walker that risks abound, as well

  • Japan insurer motor fraud investigations now stretch back nine years

    25 November 2024

    Policyholders still trust insurers despite widespread claims fraud

  • Japanese insurers Sompo, MS&AD and Tokio Marine fined for price fixing

    31 October 2024

    Four domestic insurers received cease-and-desist orders

  • Toa Re reveals importance of foreign units to Japan's major non-life insurers

    09 October 2024

    MS&AD, Tokio Marine and Sompo now generate 35% of their net premiums from outside Japan

  • MS&AD and Sompo heap praise on foreign units in quarterly results

    15 August 2024

    Groups' local non-life units suffered brunt of April hailstorms