In October 2012, it announced purchase of Japanese government bonds (JGBs), commercial paper, corporate bonds, exchange traded funds (ETF), Japanese real estate investment trusts (J-REITS).
Colonial Fiji Life Limited, which used to be known as Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society (or more simply as just CMLA to us older folk), was founded in Melbourne in 1873, and almost simultaneously opened offices in several other centers in Australia.