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  • Three Japanese life insurers join UN's Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance

    19 October 2021

    Three of Japan's largest life insurers have joined the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance

  • QBE joins UN Global Compact

    29 September 2020

    Australia's QBE Insurance Group (QBE) has become a signatory of the UN Global Compact.

  • Nippon Life to test impact investing waters with TPG investment

    14 July 2020

    Nippon Life intends to invest this month in TPG's Rise Fund, as part of a plan to eventually invest JPY30 billion ($280 million), through its own strategy, into companies targeting a measurable positive social or environmental impact alongside financial returns.

  • Nippon Life invests in IFC social bond tackling Covid-19

    20 April 2020

    Japanese insurance company Nippon Life has bought a AUD 200 million ($126 million) social bond issued by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), in a private placement.

  • Three Japanese insurers invest in renewable energy power stations

    03 February 2020

    This will be Japan's first commercial offshore wind farms

  • Nippon Life adopts the Equator Principles

    02 April 2019

    Nippon Life Insurance said it has adopted and started implementing the Equator Principles, a risk management framework to help financial institutions assess and manage environmental and social risk in development projects.

  • Japanese insurers get to grips with ESG

    28 March 2019

    Three major Japanese insurers – Tokio Marine Group, MS&AD Insurance Group, and Nippon Life Insurance – are beginning to integrate climate risks and environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their strategies, each with its own focus area. Elena K. Johansson reports.

  • Nippon Life backs TCFD and invests in offshore wind

    18 December 2018

    Nippon Life Insurance Company – Japan’s largest life insurer – has committed to report in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial disclosures (TCFD).

  • GPIF selects Nissay Asset Management for ESG disclosure research

    22 November 2018

    Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the largest pension fund in the world, has selected Nissay Asset Management (NAM) to conduct research into the disclosure of corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) information.

  • Green bonds round-up - 24 Oct - 17 new deals

    24 October 2018

    Royal Schiphol Group, the owner of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, has priced a green bond worth €500 million ($576 million), making it the first European airport to issue green-labelled notes.