Form 13F-HR NIPPON LIFE INSURANCE For: Mar 31

(The following statement was released by the rating agency) TOKYO, April 24 (Fitch) Fitch Ratings has affirmed Japan-based Nippon Life Insurance Company's (Nippon Life) Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) Rating at 'A+' and its Long-Term Issuer Default ...

Nippon Life Insurance Co. said it may buy more foreign debt and cut holdings of long-term domestic securities if yields in Japan stay low. Japan's largest life insurer may boost purchases of domestic and foreign corporate debt in the fiscal year ...

Meiji Yasuda Life and Sumitomo Life are also considering increasing their foreign bond holdings after Nippon Life and Asahi Mutual Life announced their plans to do so as the Bank of Japan rakes up JPY7.5 trillion (US$75.4 billion) of government ...

Japan's Nippon Life Insurance Co. Ltd. has agreed to purchase a minority stake in Post Advisory Group, a subsidiary of global asset manager Principal Global Investors in the United States, for

Japanese life insurers are facing an asset management dilemma, particularly on interest rate and bond yields movement, in view of the uncertain effects of the government's recently unveiled monetary stimulus package to boost the country's lackluster ...

Anup Rau, Reliance Life Insurance CEOPrivate life insurer Reliance Life Insurance is looking to strengthen and build a sustainable agency force to achieve business growth. In an interview with M Saraswathy, Anup Rau, the newly appointed Chief ...

A bipartisan group of female lawmakers Thursday called for Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) coleader Toru Hashimoto to retract and apologize for his abrasive comments justifying the sexual enslavement of females during ...

MUMBAI: HDFC Life, Birla Sun Life Insurance, and Bharti AXA Life Insurance are among the six best bidders HSBC has chosen to sell its 26% stake in the Indian life insurance joint venture with two state-run banks, said a person familiar with the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's life insurers, potential global market movers with $3 trillion in assets, have signalled they may boost their holdings of foreign bonds without currency hedges to the highest in five years, which could depress both overseas ...