Management Newsletter "Shiten No.69＆70”
Shiten No. 69
“Green Energy Strategies as Vital New Growth Opportunities for Japanese Companies ~ Renewable Energy Business Review – Part 5” (PDF, 851 KB)
Author: Principal Koji Toyama
The fortunes of the renewable energy related business are charting astounding progress of late, powered by the surging energy demands of newly emerging nations, the worrisome advance of global warming and other supporting factors. Energy companies and other key players are keenly eyeing the prospects of moving into this field. With the stagnant state of their domestic market apparently here to stay, Japanese companies need to seize full advantage of the superiority of highly efficient thermal power generation, solar battery development and other outstanding homegrown technologies. Likewise arming themselves with effective marketing schemes, there is a pressing need for organized efforts to establish solid positions in the green energy sectors of both the developing and the industrialized countries.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shiten No. 70
“Foreign Players in the Chinese Life Insurance Market” (PDF, 760 KB)
Author: Partner Hisaji Yoneda／Principal Takashi Watanabe
The Chinese life insurance market, buoyed by the deregulatory policies of the first decade of this century, has expanded at a speed and scale far exceeding the nation’s GDP. Today, in fact, this sector can be said to have geared up to a full-fledged growth era. A closer examination of the facts, however, reveals that the Big 6 life insurers hold the lion’s share of the Chinese market, with other players stuck with far smaller pieces of the pie. Most new entries, including the foreign players, are struggling just to secure profit and get by. In this installment of Business Perspective, we study the approaches adopted by firms that have succeeded in turning their bottom lines black from comparatively early on in the Chinese life insurance market. In doing so, we hope to shed light on the optimum approaches for Japanese and other foreign life insurers to advance their business prospects in the Middle Kingdom over the years to come.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
