TOKYO: For all the frenzy over the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) first policy tweak in almost two years, little seems to have changed for the nation’s life insurers.
That’s because the rise in long-end government bond yields seen after the central bank’s July 31 decision has proved to be fleeting, giving no incentive to the likes of Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co, Nippon Life Insurance Co and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co to bring home some of the funds locked overseas.
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