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

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

Japan Post to cut life and asset risks in JPY 550bn Talcott Life Re deal

Ceding to Bermudian life reinsurer involves decades-old annuity contracts

Protective Life announces $9.5bn reinsurance deal with Resolution Life

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

Moody's reiterates risks of offshore life reinsurance

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

Resolution Life and Suncorp complete NZ life deal

Insurance-alternative asset manager tie-up to continue, says Blackstone's Dellaert

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

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

Resolution Life bought for $10.6bn by Nippon Life

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

Nippon Life seeks to buy Resolution Life for $8.2bn

Largest ever overseas purchase by a Japanese insurer

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

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