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...But as of this week, the five biggest — Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Itochu, Marubeni and Sumitomo — have something in common: Warren Buffett as a shareholder....
...• Sumitomo Mitsui Trust has made three appointments to its newly integrated Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management company....
...$5bn takeover of StanCorp Financial Group by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance and the $3.8bn purchase of Symetra Financial by Sumitomo Life Insurance in 2016....
...If that is the case, then among the biggest winners stand to be Japanese lenders MUFG, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, whose business models are not only directly eroded by Japan...
...The rating agency revised down its outlook on banking groups such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group and Shizuoka Bank....
...Among the beneficiaries that would be able to raise their stakes are the UK’s Standard Life , which wants to list its joint venture with HDFC, and Mitsui Sumitomo and Nippon Life of Japan, whose partners...
...The company said it has signed agreements to partner with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, the largest institutional investor in Japan, and Nippon Life Insurance, Japan’s largest private life insurer, which both...
...(Reuters live blog)(Financial Times) “Asian stocks swung between gains and losses after mixed earnings at companies from Honda Motor Co. to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and LG Display Co....
...Aozora Bank climbed 4.5 per cent to Y187, while Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings gained 2.7 per cent to Y2,588....
...Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance will buy a 26 per cent stake in India’s Max New York Life, continuing a run of deals by Japanese life companies across Asia....
...Financials also took a hit, with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group down 1.9 per cent, Nomura Holdings off 1.5 per cent and Dai-Ichi Life Insurance retreating 1.6 per cent....
...Mizuho Financial Group rose 4 per cent to Y131, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group gained 3.8 per cent to Y2,726 and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group climbed 3.6 per cent to Y402....
...In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average fell 0.7 per cent to 8,541.93, but banks outperformed the market with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group climbing 1.4 per cent to Y2,904 after announcing plans to buy back...
...Olympus’s biggest lenders include Japan’s three leading banks – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho – and the country’s largest life assurer, Nippon Life....
...Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group fell 1.8 per cent to Y2,170 and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial shed 2.9 per cent to Y332....
...Promise , an affiliate of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial, gained 17.9 per cent on Friday to Y659 after its parent said it was to buy the 78 per cent of the company it does not already own....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group unveiled a nearly 50 per cent rise in net profits to Y583bn, while Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group posted net profit increases of 73 per cent and 75 per cent, respectively...
...Among the other big Japanese and French banks, Mizuho appears to be in the 1 per cent category, and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Nomura would escape surcharges entirely....
...Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, the core operating unit of MS&AD, will subscribe to new shares in a third-party allotment and will jointly control Sinarmas Life with Sinar Mas Multiartha, a financial holding...
...However, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, Nippon Life and Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire told the Nikkei newspaper that they were not selling foreign currency denominated assets to exchange back into yen....
...Promise, a consumer lender and affiliate of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, extended gains from last year, surging 17 per cent to Y546 following recent reports that SMFG might increase its stake....
...Mitsubishi UFJ Financial rose 1.4 per cent to Y435 and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial added 2.2 per cent to Y2,856....
...Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan’s second-largest bank by market capitalisation, reported higher profits, largely reflecting higher trading profits and lower credit costs....
...Sumitomo Mitsui Financial rose 3 per cent to Y2,450, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial added 2.4 per cent to Y391 yen while Mizuho Financial jumped 3.6 per cent to Y116....
...Mitsui & Co fell 2.7 per cent to Y1,293 and rival Mitsubishi Corp dropped 2.4 per cent to Y2,000....
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