Daido Life Insurance Co., part of Japan’s only publicly traded life insurer, will increase investment in private equity and hedge funds to boost returns, while cutting holdings of lower-yielding domestic debt.
Japanese life insurers need higher returns to meet their payment obligations because the nation’s benchmark interest rate is the lowest among major economies at 0.5 percent.
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