Editorial
AXA Asia Chief: Aiming high - A 700% growth in 15 years
Prudential Chairman sees major role in furthering Asia's growth
IAG looks to stay ahead of the game
Manulife Asia Chief: Putting customers at the forefront is the only way forward
AGCS: Crisis management protection for Asian corporates
EY Global Insurance Leader: Buying propositions, not products
Global Insurance Forum - Insurers can spearhead societal changes
Cover Story - Asia P&C Roundup: Still a buyer's market
Taiwan - A rising regional Asian wealth management hub
Taiwan - Interview with the Regulator: Success is a two-way street
Taiwan - Non-life: Realistic expectations
Taiwan - Life: Healthy and hungry for more
Offshore insurance unit business gets green light in Taiwan
The Geneva Association: Asian regulators coping with changing landscape
Big Data, huge potential
How can Big Data narrow the protection gap in Asia?
Driving motor insurance ahead
Agriculture Insurance in India - The next big thing!
Greater China Life Insurance Symposium: Assessing China's retirement perceptions
AIRDC Conference 2015: Seychelles - A world heritage destination beckons!
Regulators in action
Back to school - ERM in a university
Managing workforce productivity in an ageing population era
Product Bytes
Managing costs and improving profitability in growth mode
Focus on Specialty/Liability - New tech trends demand more innovation in liability cover
Microinsurance Focus - Insurers' performance after Typhoon Haiyan: A lesson in flexibility and adaptability
AEC Focus - More opportunities for business in single ASEAN market - S'pore foreign minister
Nepal Earthquake Feature - The Great Gorkha Earthquake: Protecting and educating the children in the aftermath
Spotlight on CFOs - Even CFOs have a leading role in an era of disruptions
Asia - ASEAN: Nominations for YAMA 2015 are open
Asia - Business interruption approach needs updating - Marsh
Asia - Insured losses in Jan-Jun at US$12 bln, below longterm average of $15 bln
Asia - Emerging Asia: China records highest growth in life and non-life sectors in 2014
Australia/New Zealand - Berkshire invests in Australia's IAG; opens NZ office
Australia - Australian Insurance Awards 2015
Cambodia - Farm microinsurance plan launched
China - Premium income up 19% y-o-y to US$188 bln in Jan-May
China - Insurers snap up equities despite market turbulence in sign of confidence - CIRC
China - China Re first Chinese company to issue CAT bond
Hong Kong - Independent insurance regulatory body a step closer
Hong Kong - IIHK joins forces with Chartered Insurance Institute
India: Adapting to change is the greatest challenge for Indian insurers - Insurance Banana Skins 2015
Japan - Japan Post Insurance to go public
South Korea - Korean regulators pledge to give greater autonomy to financial institutions
New Zealand - Earthquake Commission recommends nine proposals in revamp exercise
Singapore - FA firms urged to embed culture of fair dealing
Singapore - Standard Life closes office
Singapore - Singapore insurers mark country's 50th anniversary by raising over S$500,000 for charity
Sri Lanka - Industry sees 5.14% growth in 2014 to US$746 mln
Taiwan - Insurers/broker have been active on the M&A front in Taiwan
Prices seem to stabilise at mid-year renewals
Merger mania in global insurance industry
Bermudian insurers question long-term benefits of M&A
Lack of innovation is insurers' stumbling block - KPMG
Regulating insurers in a low-yield environment
Managing the threat of MERS
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Celebrates the Start of their Underwriting Operation in Myanmar
Diary of events
People on the Move
COVER STORY
For the first half roundup, we polled a group of six brokers and consultants excluding insurers and reinsurers. But the verdict still seemed the same: With Asia's P&C sector seeing benign claims on the CAT front, soft market conditions prevail, made worse by stiff competition across the insurance supply chain. Though a few see rates as bottoming out in some lines, it is still very much a buyer's market and will likely to continue to be so for a while.
COUNTRY PROFILE
With the FSC's six-goal programme rolled out last year to make insurers more competitive as part of a wider plan to build the country's financial industry into an Asian wealth management hub, Taiwan is rising to attain this goal.
BIG DATA AND TELEMATICS FEATURE
Big Data is more than a buzzword, it is a vital information tool which insurers can tap into to understand their customers' needs better; to create the products that they need and even to narrow the protection gap in Asia.
Mr Jean-Louis Laurent Josi, CEO, AXA Asia, shares the group's ambitious plan to grow its customer base in Asia seven-fold by 2030, and how this goal will be achieved. By Benjamin Ang
Buy Now
Prudential Corporation Asia's Chairman Donald Kanak says insurers together with the public sector need to cooperate even more closely as societies and economies evolve in Asia. By Ridwan Abbas
IAG's CEO Mike Wilkins shares about his positive outlook on Asia and the shift in the organisation's operating model. By Ridwan Abbas
The insurance industry can play a leading role in making society better, said leaders - including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon - at the Global Insurance Forum held in New York.
For the first half roundup, we polled a group of six brokers and consultants excluding insurers and reinsurers. But the verdict still seemed the same: With Asia's P&C sector seeing benign claims on the CAT front, soft market conditions prevail, made...
Last year, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) launched an elaborate programme to boost Taiwan's financial industry competitiveness, which is bearing good results. Newly-appointed Director-General Grace Lee shares the FSC's assessment of the...
Taiwan's non-life insurance market continues to log steady growth for the fifth year running, in part due to economic and business growth, and the regulator's efforts to build the country's financial industry into an Asian wealth management hub. We...
Asian regulators need to modernise capital frameworks, strengthen enterprise risk management (ERM) requirements for insurers as well as build capacity and capabilities of regulators so that they can help insurers in the region grow, says The Geneva...
Asia remains severely underinsured. By harnessing new technologies and big data, insurers will be able to tackle new and emerging risks and bridge the protection gap in Asia, Ms Sophia Van of Swiss Re says.
Driving motor insurance ahead "Big data" - this new buzzword stands for the totality of structured and unstructured data that are analysed to provide a more detailed understanding of the behaviour patterns of clients. Dr Ludger Arnoldussen, Member...
Mr P C James of National Insurance Academy says agriculture insurance can be the next big thing if all stakeholders work together to improve the offerings to meet the farmers' needs. India has the potential to be the granary of the world.
LIMRA is teaming up with the Society of Actuaries to assess the retirement market perceptions among China's people. Mr Eric T Sondergeld of LIMRA says the goal of the study is to understand how China's consumers perceive their retirement needs and...
The Association of Insurers and Reinsurers of Developing Countries (AIRDC) President Grace Muradzikwa, highlights the relevance of the annual AIRDC event for developing countries to be hosted in Seychelles next month. By Jimmy John
In this update brought to you by PwC, we bring you a roundup of key regulatory activities around the region in the recent few months.
This month, we bring you a case study of risk management in a non-commercial entity - a university. Mr Jeffrey Yeo at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University tells us more about his team's work.
Marsh Risk Consulting addressed how to ensure recruitment of a healthy workforce, reduce the likelihood of workforce injuries and compensation disputes and providing employee benefits schemes that could prevent work disruptions.
How can insurers meet the challenges of the paradox of needing to spend more on people and the need to reduce costs? Mr Toby Rotstein of Innovation Group discusses.
Specialty/Liability insurers urged to think out of the box amid new trends in technology.
Mr Avianto Amri of Risk Frontiers gives his first impressions of the disaster in Nepal and the response and recovery operations with a particular focus on child and youth centred issues.
CFOs have a leading role to play in ensuring their companies stay ahead of the disrupting changes redefining the insurance landscape, said speakers at the 9th Asian Insurance CFO Summit.