Taiwan lifers add EM bonds, reap stock dividend returns

Some of Taiwan's biggest life insurance companies have been investing of late in higher-risk emerging market bonds and could load up on more high-dividend-paying shares, which have performed strongly for them this year.  The information, gleaned from third-quarter analyst calls in November, accompanied news that total investable assets at Cathay Life, Shin Kong Life, and Fubon Life had grown by 7% in the first nine months of 2017 to NT$5.4 trillion ($177.7 billion), NT$2.36 trilli…