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Japan’s lifers gently diversifying as yield pressure grows

Hans Poulsen
Strong earnings from underwriting are helping Japanese life insurers to cope with low-yields but the pressure to continue diversifying is building.
Japan’s lifers gently diversifying as yield pressure grows

Japanese life insurers are still diversifying their investments away from the domestic market at a sedate pace but the incentive to do so more quickly and to take on more risk can only grow the longer yields on government bonds remain depressed.

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