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Great Eastern Life: Delivering on Indonesia's great promise

Great Eastern Life Indonesia is confident of crafting its niche in a competitive market place as it seeks to put in place a fully professional distribution force. CEO Ivan Chak tells us his plans for this attractive market. By Ridwan Abbas

Ageas: "Insurance is by definition a very local business"

Mr Jozef De Mey, Chairman of Ageas, with his long service in international insurance, is one of the driving forces behind the founding and growth of the insurer's Asian activities. In this extracted interview, he speaks candidly about the reasons...

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions: Gunning for a slice of the pie

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions recently made its foray into the saturated but lucrative direct commercial insurance market in Asia, with the setup of the Swiss Re International SE Singapore Branch. Messrs Fred Kleiterp, Head of Asia Pacific and...

A market led by enlightened regulatory reforms

This is one market where the slew of regulatory reforms have been given the thumbs-up by insurers and observers in the market with expectations for a business landscape that adds better value, advice, service and choice for the policyholders....

Non-Life: Gearing up for motor and fire detariffication

Malaysia's non-life sector is gearing up for the expected removal of tariffs for motor and fire insurance. Industry players share what they are doing to prepare for it, and also their thoughts and outlook of the sector. By Benjamin Ang

The retirement system of China: Social security pension, enterprise annuities and savings

We bring you Chinese academic's Ms Hong Mao of Shanghai Second Polytechnic University gives her perspective of the challenges facing the current retirement system as carried in The Geneva Association's Life and Pensions newsletter.

Social commerce: Up the ante, change the game

As consumers become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the use of mobile technology, the insurance industry can no longer afford not to go digital in their marketing and engagement strategies. This was a key takeaway at the 3rd Asia...

Bancassurance - Has it peaked and what lies ahead?

Bancassurance experts look at the tempting question of whether bancassurance has peaked as well as what banks look for in insurance partners.

Bancassurance - What do banks look for in an insurance partner?

Bancassurance has come a long way. Yet this question remains a mystery. Mr Steve Kean of Towers Watson revisits this question to gauge some of the factors and qualities that banks look for in a partner from the insurance world.

Healthcare focus: Reality bites - National healthcare schemes lack "depth"

Many Asian markets have rolled out or are rolling out national healthcare schemes though most of the schemes are still nascent or elementary. We bring you a report of the 9th Asia Conference on Healthcare and Health Insurance which go beyond to...

Life markets trend: Myth and Reality: Finding the pulse of the Asian insurance consumer

In this curtain-raiser to the 2014 LIMRA Strategic Issues Conference in Taipei, Mr Ian Watts of LIMRA, LOMA and LL Global, Inc, refers to a study they conducted on consumer expectation and experience around both channels and products.

Life markets trend: Risk insurable

There is an increasing number of life insurance applicants with rare diseases. Dr Andreas Armuss from Munich Re discusses the magic of a global network of experts making medical know-how available to clients worldwide and hence allowing hitherto...

Asia: April renewals saw continued pressure on prices

Trends observed during the 1 January 2014 renewals had continued in April and with the continued features of strong balance sheets and an abundance of capacity, most industry observers say this is likely to be the case for the rest of the year.

Asia: Reputation damage from a cyber-attack top concern in Asia, says Marsh

Companies in Asia are most concerned about the potential for a cyber-attack or data breach to cause reputation damage to their firms and are planning to become more proactive in managing their cyber risk exposures, according to a recent survey...

Australia's retirement income system ranks most sustainable, says Allianz

In a study on the long-term sustainability of different pension systems carried out by Allianz on 50 countries in its 2014 Pension Sustainability Index (PSI), it was found that Australia's combined public and private retirement incomes system is the...

Insurers derived best share price outcomes when acquiring in same country, Towers Watson

The most positive share price outcomes have resulted from acquisitions completed in the acquiring company's own country.

AXA and Facebook enter strategic partnership

AXA and Facebook have entered into a strategic partnership in order to accelerate their marketing and commercial collaboration in the digital, social and mobile sphere in France and globally:

Allied World approved to launch managing agency at Lloyd's

Allied World has officially received approval from Lloyd's, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority to launch its own managing agency, Allied World Managing Agency Ltd, at Lloyd's.

Nepal Aviation Insurance Summit 2014: A catalyst for change in a challenging environment

The 2nd Nepal Aviation Insurance Summit was held in Kathmandu with the objective of providing a unique platform for all industry stakeholders to interact with each other, share ideas and find a positive direction for aviation and aviation insurance...

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