{"id":805419,"date":"2026-08-07T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805419\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:08:09","slug":"top-japan-insurer-urges-companies-to-issue-bonds-in-yield-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/805419\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Japan insurer urges companies to issue bonds in yield hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daiichi Life Group has been stepping into bankers\u2019 shoes and contacting companies directly to see if they want to issue bonds, in an unusual investment tactic for an insurer.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo-based firm\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Japan\u2019s largest listed life insurance group\u00a0\u2014 has been approaching dozens of companies that have never issued bonds or only rarely done so, proposing that it will become a core buyer if they tap the market, according to Kazuyuki Shigemoto, its managing executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>Investors such as Shigemoto are looking for extra returns as Japan\u2019s benchmark bond yields climb to three-decade highs. One option is corporate debt that offers premiums over sovereign bonds. More issuance by weaker companies may attract foreign investors, who have long called on Japan to establish a junk bond market that offers higher yields in exchange for more risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daiichi Life Group has been stepping into bankers\u2019 shoes and contacting companies directly to see if they want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4592,4,450,341962,451,9042,341963,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-805419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-bonds","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-daiichi-life-group","tag-headlines","tag-insurance","tag-kazuyuki-shigemoto","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}