Dai-Ichi Life appoints new deputy GM of fixed income

Dai-Ichi Life, Japan’s third-largest insurance firm, has relocated the senior general manager of its Europe branch in London back to Tokyo as deputy general manager of fixed income. Having started in the role on April 1, Gempaku Okuyama oversees direct investment of global fixed income assets including international government and agency bonds and US mortgage-backed securities but excluding corporate bonds. The global fixed income portfolio is around $70 billion in size, Okuyama…