Archive

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

    07 April 2025

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

  • Protective Life announces $9.5bn reinsurance deal with Resolution Life

    07 March 2025

    Dai-ichi Life's US unit plans ceding risks of universal life and structured settlement contracts

  • Moody's reiterates risks of offshore life reinsurance

    06 February 2025

    Rating agency comments on asset intensive business, use of sidecars and Japanese interest in life

  • Resolution Life and Suncorp complete NZ life deal

    03 February 2025
  • Insurance-alternative asset manager tie-up to continue, says Blackstone's Dellaert

    17 December 2024

    Asset manager-insurers have injected $30bn of capital into life and annuities in the last decade

  • Nippon Life sets 30% earnings contribution target from foreign business

    16 December 2024

    Japanese wants to buy Resolution Life and MLC outright in separate deals

  • Resolution Life bought for $10.6bn by Nippon Life

    11 December 2024

    Will accelerate growth in the trillion-dollar global life and annuity consolidation market

  • Nippon Life seeks to buy Resolution Life for $8.2bn

    10 December 2024

    Largest ever overseas purchase by a Japanese insurer

  • 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

  • Resolution Life closes third UK funded reinsurance transaction

    26 September 2024