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• 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

• 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

• 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 reveals strong Australasian tilt in re/insurer's investor base

  09 July 2024

  Over half of group's backers are in Asia Pacific; one quarter are insurers

• Fitch predicts robust credit fundamentals and less rates risk for Japan's life sector

  06 June 2024

  Insurers will also keep expanding overseas to boost earnings, ratings agency expects

• Fitch flags "moderate" uplift in Japan life firms' capital after BoJ policy change

  28 March 2024

  Bank of Japan significantly changed its stance on interest rates last week

• MS&AD considers selling overseas units to bolster ROE

  01 March 2023

  European units' latest reported shareholder income losses widened by 87%

• Resolution Life seals $1.1bn Japan life book deal with Dai-Ichi Life

  22 June 2022

  Japanese life group gets over 25% of premiums from overseas

• Capital strength drives high Fitch ratings for Asian life insurers

  21 March 2022

  The rating agency said the insurers assessed benefit from sustainable profitability

• ESG gains momentum among Asian insurers

  14 January 2022

  Expect tailored ESG approaches and platforms in Asia, experts say