{"id":106536,"date":"2025-10-29T05:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106536\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:53:07","slug":"japanese-insurers-trim-foreign-debt-as-domestic-yields-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106536\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Insurers Trim Foreign Debt as Domestic Yields Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Rising yields at home are prompting some of Japan\u2019s biggest life insurers to boost domestic bond holdings and pare overseas debt, with foreign returns no longer stacking up as they once did. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Roughly half of 10 companies that disclosed half-year investment plans said they had cut overseas debt holdings, citing improved returns on domestic assets. This comes as the cost to hedge foreign investments against currency swings remains high for some, even after a 40% drop in hedging expenses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising yields at home are prompting some of Japan\u2019s biggest life insurers to boost domestic bond holdings and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22240,910,5261,5399,76802,76800,329,1759,635,220,111,139,69,76801,145],"class_list":["post-106536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bank-of-japan-the","tag-bonds","tag-currency","tag-debt","tag-fukoku-mutual-life-insurance","tag-government-bonds","tag-investing","tag-japan","tag-life-insurance","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sumitomo-life-insurance-co","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}