Flash: Tracking the shifting sea of Japanese assets UBS

ET) is the biggest life insurance company in the U.S., with market share of 10% in the country's life insurance market. However, with the financial downturn of 2008 leading to a slowdown in the U.S. market, the insurer is looking for international ...

Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to name four people from the business community, including Canon Inc. President and Chairman Fujio Mitarai, 77, as outside board directors under its new management team to be launched shortly. The three others are ...

Tokyo (Japan), June 17 (ANI): ORIX Corporation, a leading integrated financial services group of Japan, has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire 25.7 per cent of issued shares of Bahrain-based Mediterranean and Gulf Insurance and ...

(Baystreet Foreign Markets Wrap (Canada) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Chinese and South Korean stocks fell Wednesday on caution ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary-policy decision later in the day, while Japanese shares rallied in the wake ...

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) TOKYO, June 18 -- (Kyodo) _ ---------- Japanese repatriates from N. Korea tour childhood neighborhoods CHONGJIN, North Korea - A group of former Japanese residents in what is now North Korea on ...

Subscriber Content Preview | Search by UBS Securities Japan Co. tapped ldman, Sachs & Co. veteran Junya Nishiwaki as a managing director and head of corporate client solutions, effective Aug. 23. He will oversee client coverage, merger and ...

Washington Post columnist Neil Irwin stopped by to discuss his book, The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire. It's a great read on the history of central banks, including how they responded to the financial crisis and the ...

June 10 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks advanced after the biggest weekly since April, as data showed the Japanese economy grew more than initially forecast. Deutsche Telekom AG added 1.8 percent after a report that SoftBank Corp. is considering ...

TOKYO-- Japan posted a strong current-account surplus in April while revised data on gross domestic product for the January-March quarter showed the economy grew more quickly than previously forecast, welcome news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after ...