Top Japan life insurers on guard against rising ultralong yields

Top Japan life insurers on guard against rising ultralong yields Top Japan life insurers on guard against rising ultralong yields

TOKYO — Dai-ichi Life Insurance and Nippon Life Insurance, two of Japan’s biggest institutional investors, are navigating choppy waters churned up by the Trump administration’s fast-changing tariff policy and a jump in Japanese bond yields at the ultralong-term end.

Kazuyuki Shigemoto, managing executive officer at Dai-ichi Life, said the company was ready for the market turmoil that followed Trump’s “Liberation Day” in April.