Editorial
Mr Peter Coyiuto: Life challenges at the 27th PIC
Endurance Re: Further economic growth needed to drive (re)insurance industry
Gen Re: Sticking to fundamentals to win the day
The Tigers are here
UAE-based Nexus now in Asia
FM Global: Partnerships key in managing supply chain risk
AEC Focus - Opportunities for EU insurers in ASEAN
Product Bytes
Organisational Focus: Operating in a vulnerable economy
Special Feature: Why some Western insurance multinationals succeed in Asia while others struggle
Special Feature on Regulation
Special Feature on Regulation: Regulators in action
Special Feature in Regulation: Untying the knot: Sharpening strategies for regulatory change
Special Feature on Regulation: Arranging a multinational programme
Life Feature: Innovation on all fronts needed for future success
Life Feature: Industry calls for proficient pension planning
Investment Feature: Master the art of asset allocation
Investment Feature: Sovereign wealth funds spur expansion of the insurance industry
Cover Story: Reinsurance Focus - Can reinsurers defend their positions?
Cover Story: Reinsurance Focus - Reinsurance roundtable: Being clever in dealing with change
Cover Story: Reinsurance Focus - Monte Carlo: Seeking the silver lining
Spotlight on Philippines: Serving tomorrow's middle-class
Spotlight on Philippines: The case for an emerging consumer specialist insurer
Spotlight on Philippines: Philippine local standards made applicable to non-resident foreign reinsurers
Takaful Spotlight: Takaful players seek to go up the next level
Think Tank - The Geneva Association: Why choose an insurance career?
Legal Page: The future of weighted voting rights structure in Hong Kong
Risk Management Interview: Fitting together the pieces of the ERM jigsaw
Risk Management Interview: Managing risk at IKEA
IT in Insurance: An era of disruptive innovation
Asia Pacific: Trans-Pacific Partnership pact seeks to streamline financial services regulations
Asia: Eight Asian nations join Vulnerable 20 (V20) group in fight against global warming impact
Asia: AIRDC calls for greater learning among members
Asia: 28th EAIC set for 11-15 Oct 2016 in Macau
Asia: APECs Cebu Action Plan launched for sustainable financial future
Australia: Planners lobby against commission clawback
Bangladesh: Pact to develop workmen injury insurance cover
China: Life insurance pricing fully liberalised
China: Tianjin blasts could cost China Re up to US$174 million
Hong Kong: Insurers endorse proposed RBC framework
India: Insurance Institute of India remembers the poor at Diamond Jubilee
India: Almost half of millennials buy health cover for tax savings
Indonesia: Weaker rupiah will put some insurers under stress
Japan: Insurers to raise quake premiums from 2017
South Korea: FSC mulling plan to boost and transform insurance business
Macau: China Life commands nearly 60% of life market
Malaysia: Insurers urged to shake off lethargy to promote retirement planning
Myanmar: Three private insurers yet to contribute to compensation fund
Nepal: Insurance moves to purview of central & state govts
New Zealand: Call for more transparency from brokers/advisers
Pakistan: State Life to operate Premier's national health insurance programme
Singapore: Insurers urged to provide cover for end-of-life care
Sri Lanka: Call for common pension framework
Taiwan: Insurers are readying for US Fed interest rate hike
Vietnam: Factors for farm insurance slow take-off outlined
290% spike in M&A deal values in first half of year - A.M. Best
FSB endorses Higher Loss Absorbency (HLA) requirement for G-SIIs
US$1.3 tln CAT protection gap in the last 10 years - Swiss Re
Globalisation poses challenges for anti-bribery and corruption compliance - KPMG
Cyber and reputation risks remain top concerns - Marsh Survey
Diary of Events
People on the move
With the 27th Pacific Insurance Conference (PIC) in Manila at the end of this month, we zero in on the buoyant life market there with a call for a consumer specialist insurer and a look at foreign reinsurers being subject to local standards.
Mr Pritesh Modi and Mr Alex Nisichenko, both of LeapFrog Investments, introduce the Emerging Consumer in the Philippines which is tomorrow's middle class and is presently under-served by the insurance sector.
By Ms Hiyasmin H. Lapitan, partner at SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan
The 3rd Takaful Rendezvous in KL heralded that takaful is certainly a mainstay now in the insurance world. But more needs to be done as many takaful companies move into their adolescent phase.
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