March 6, 2015
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings Inc. will buy a 15 percent stake in French reinsurer SCOR SE in potentially its biggest investment abroad amid diminishing opportunities for growth at home. The insurer will initially buy 7.8 percent from Swiss fund Patinex …
June 24, 2014
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest non-life insurer, will seek acquisitions in Southeast Asia to expand its overseas business, said President and Chief Executive Officer Yasuyoshi Karasawa. “Asia continues to be the most important area for us,” Karasawa, 63, …
April 28, 2014
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. agreed to sell its Japanese operation to Orix Corp. as Chief Executive Officer Liam McGee narrows the U.S. insurer’s focus. Orix will pay about $895 million for the business, which sold retirement products in Japan …
December 18, 2013
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan’s third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, confirmed earlier reports that it will buy Canopius Group Ltd. of the U.K. for 99.2 billion yen ($963 million) as it expands beyond its aging …
July 29, 2013
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s second-largest non-life insurer, is seeking to expand in Southeast Asia as Japan’s shrinking population erodes its domestic market. The insurer plans to expand in life insurance, automobile coverage, reinsurance and asset management, President Tsuyoshi Nagano …