Japan’s lifers sticking to investment tweaks

Unhedged foreign bonds, an uptick in equities and further steps in alternative assets. Those were the highlights of the investment plans of Japan's biggest life insurance companies for the six months to March 2020, the second half of Japan’s financial year. The tweaks come amid the challenge of a low interest rate environment globally which makes traditional bond investments increasingly unprofitable. The trends are a sign that the lifers plan to stick to minor, conservative twe…