{"id":7573,"date":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"japan-life-insurers-embrace-hedge-funds-for-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/japan-life-insurers-embrace-hedge-funds-for-returns.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan life insurers embrace hedge funds for returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters)- Low government bond yields and volatile currency markets are pushing Japan&#8217;s traditionally conservative life insurers into riskier investments to boost returns, with hedge funds and private equity set to get more of their huge cash pile.<\/p>\n<p>With little prospect of higher interest rates this year as the U.S. economy slows, some Japanese insurers &#8212; which collectively manage about $1.6 trillion in assets, nearly the size of Italy&#8217;s economy &#8212; said they planned to cut domestic and foreign bond holdings in favour of alternative investments.<\/p>\n<p>Those keen on hedge funds among Japan&#8217;s nine largest insurers, who briefed Reuters on their strategies in a series of interviews, say turbulent times for investors have weeded out the sector and created new opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/BROKER\/idUST26803520080421\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters)- Low government bond yields and volatile currency markets are pushing Japan&#8217;s traditionally conservative life insurers into riskier investments to boost returns, with hedge funds and private equity set to get more of their huge cash pile. With little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}