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...Scholar will join Japan’s biggest investment bank on Friday, the lender said....
...Earlier this month, the president of Sompo Japan Insurance, Giichi Shirakawa, said he would resign....
...So, Sompo Holdings, one of Japan’s biggest insurance companies and the operator of about 280 care homes across the country, has turned to technology to address the problem....
...The quake was the biggest single contributor to natural catastrophe-related insurance losses reaching $100bn last year for the fourth year running....
...Earnings: Japanese insurance companies Tokio Marine, MS&AD and Sompo will publish their fiscal second-quarter results....
...First, in the hunt for better than near-zero returns at home, Japanese institutions, including pension funds, life insurance companies and banks, have become major international investors....
...But even in the new world of shareholder activism and governance pressure, no deal trumps the shock and disbelief that rippled across corporate Japan last week when Dai-ichi Life Insurance suddenly threw...
...A few weeks earlier, Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Holdings took a stake in Canyon Capital, a $20bn credit manager that made its name as a distressed and opportunistic debt expert....
...For the airline, which updated its investors on Thursday, the loss of the Airbus A350 aircraft will be covered by insurance....
...Predictably enough, Moscow makes noises — which some Europeans unfortunately believe, too — that a windfall tax on a Belgian company will damage the credibility of the euro....
...The fallout has already spread to other sectors including local insurance groups. The sector’s shares fell on the back of investors’ fears about their potential exposure....
...JAL estimated on Wednesday that the crash would result in an operating loss of about ¥15bn ($105mn), which would be covered by insurance....
...A significant factor has been a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance, or insurance for insurance companies....
...KKR has prioritised growth in Asia and Japan has become one of its largest investment areas globally....
...There are of course other important announcements due this week, not least a steady flow of results, probably best described as a smorgasbord, from retailers and drugmakers to technology companies and insurance...
...In 2018, Keidanren, Japan’s most influential business lobby group, resisted introducing penalties against companies to strengthen whistleblower protections....
...The Barossa Project is a crucial development for Santos, the A$24bn ($15.7bn) Adelaide-based company that traces its roots to the 1950s....
...But, in country terms, South Korea is home to the most growth companies in the list: 123 in total. Japan and Singapore are close behind with 101 and 93 companies, respectively....
...Axa, the group’s former chair, Allianz and Scor, as well as Japan’s Sompo Holdings, said on Thursday they were leaving the NZIA, which is one part of Mark Carney’s umbrella group called the Glasgow Financial...
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