From Editor-in-Chief
Raja Zailan, MITBA: Ushering 2015
Adam Garrard, Willis Asia: From buying insurance to selling risk
PartnerRe: Partnering for success
Tokio Marine Kiln: More than a name change
AEC focus: Indonesia backs common time zone for ASEAN
AEC focus: ASEAN to declare single market by year's end
India focus: India's nuclear pool a done deal
Lloyd's in China: Beijing launch
Product bites
Risk management news: Unique characteristics of "Charlie Hebdo" attacks
Risk management news: New model for assessing political risk
NAT CAT focus: Natural disaster losses in Asia-Pacific in 2014
Healthcare focus: Sustainable solutions to older age care: How can the insurance industry play a role?
Healthcare focus: How to incentivise healthy living
Healthcare focus: Healthcare reform in Hong Kong presents opportunity for constructive change
Healthcare focus: Improving healthcare delivery in India
Life feature: Asia offers a bright future for adaptable insurers
Life feature: Maintaining life insurer's relevance
Life feature: Five life insurance game-changers and cautions
IRFRC: Multi-population mortality risk in Asia-Pacific: Outputs
Asset management: The impact of interest rates and other parameters on insurers' profitability
Women in insurance: May the best (wo)man win
Brokers: Thriving through networks - Club clout
Strength to ride out tough times
Non-life: Bracing for change and a competitive environment
Life: Greater customer protection and enhancing professionalism
Company Snapshots
Liberalisation of the industry whilst raising the bar - Is this a paradox?
GST and its impact on insurance in Malaysia
Keeping the insurance industry in shape
Executive decision: When is a director truly a "non-executive director"?
Sleep tight, but beware what risks may bite
8th India rendezvous: Greater cooperation among SAARC markets for a strong and vibrant insurance industry
Asia: 25th Anniversary Summit to salute insurance and its contribution to society
Young ASEAN Manager Award: Winner inspires others around him
Australia: Life insurance lacking in those with most to lose
Australia: ANZIIF starts new programme to promote the insurance industry
Bangladesh: IDRA concerned over high lapse rates
China Life is country's top insurer in 2014
China: Insurance sector doubles annual profits to CNY204.7 bln
Markel to write reinsurance on Lloyd's China platform
India: IRDAI working on regulations to support Ordinance
Indonesia: Fitch says new reinsurance plan raises challenges for domestic sector
Japan to regulate "insurance shops"
South Korea: Dongbu Insurance teams up with North American giants
Pakistan: Government to launch National Health Insurance Programme
Malaysia: Missing MH370 declared "an accident"
Singapore's life sector sees 23% increase in single premium products sales in 2014
Insurers in Singapore welcome SG50 with promotions and more
Taiwan: Primary insurers not significantly affected by TransAsia crash
AXIS merges with PartnerRe to create world's 5th largest P&C reinsurer
Major insurance players set up microinsurance venture incubator
Miller combines with Willis to form London wholesale broking firm
Bermuda to fight for title of ILS domicile of choice
ACE launches dedicated cyber risk unit
Leading researchers are winners of Shin Research Excellence Awards
Diary of events
People on the move
COVER STORY
The popularity of broker networks around the world is growing slowly but surely as they continually adapt to the salient needs of independent brokers. Will this trend significantly augment the clout of the big boys in the insurance broking sector?
COUNTRY PROFILE
With oil prices down by more than 50% since June, Malaysia's commodity-driven economy is facing strong headwinds which has also seen the ringgit depreciating rapidly in recent months. However, despite the uncertain economic outlook and consumer...
SPECIAL FEATURE
Like all other businesses, being adaptable and relevant is key for life insurers. Read on for tips on approaches to take and pitfalls to avoid.
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Mr Emmanuel Clarke, CEO, PartnerRe Global, discusses the merger with AXIS Capital, and why the conversion from a branch to a subsidiary in Asia Pacific is not just a licensing change. By Benjamin Ang
Mr Charles Franks, Group CEO, Tokio Marine Kiln, explains the timing and rationale behind the group's rebranding, and Mr Neil Wray, Regional Managing Director of Tokio Marine Kiln in Asia says ample untapped opportunities exist from working with the...
Indonesia is the latest Southeast Asian nation to back Malaysia's proposal for all capital cities in the region to adopt a common time zone to ramp up integration, especially in doing business.
ASEAN will officially call itself a single market by year's end, but "big things" like seamless travel within the 10-nation bloc would only come in 2020, said Malaysia's Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamed in an interview with AFP on the sidelines of the...
India and the US have finally reached an understanding on the issues related to civil nuclear liability following President Obama's visit to the subcontinent in January. India will now be able to move towards commercial negotiations on the setting...
Malaysia's non-life sector is facing up to a slower rate of growth in line with lower GDP estimates for 2015. But PIAM Chairman, Mr Chua Seck Guan, remains optimistic and expects the market to still register positive growth, while it prepares for...
Existing life players have to adjust to regulatory changes and re-strategise to succeed in new environment, says Mr Vincent Kwo, President of the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM). By Ridwan Abbas
In this extract taken from The Geneva Association's newsletters, Professor Martin Eling at the University of St. Gallen Switzerland discusses the three challenges that insurers, with focus on life insurers, need to look at in order to stay in shape...
In a recent case in Australia, it was decided that the determination of whether a director is an executive or non-executive one lies with his or her functions in the company. Mr John Edmond, Ms Avryl Lattin and Ms Leah Hewish of Clyde & Co,...
As the impact of recent aviation disasters and the shock of the Charlie Hebdo attacks continue to reverberate around the world, the growing need for risk management is recognised more than ever. In this article, we look at the top risks which have...
Speakers at the 8th India Rendezvous spoke of a need for greater cooperation and closer networking with each other for a strong and vibrant insurance industry in the SAARC region.
Marking 25 years as the voice of the region's insurance industry, Asia Insurance Review is hosting a world first international summit to recognise and salute the role of insurance in life, economy, society, and nation-building.
Continually building upon one's strength is a motto which the recent Young ASEAN Managers Award (YAMA) winner lives by, and has worked well to motivate himself and those around him.
Research commissioned by Australia's largest life insurer, TAL, shows a dramatic difference between the number of Australians who rate the importance of life insurance and the number who have it.
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited and PartnerRe Ltd have signed a definitive amalgamation agreement to create one of the world's pre-eminent specialty insurance and reinsurance companies, with gross premiums written in excess of US$10 billion, total...
A group of eight leading insurers, brokers, and reinsurers have established a microinsurance consortium and microinsurance venture incubator (MVI).
Miller Insurance Services LLP has reached a successful conclusion to the negotiations with Willis Group Holdings to form a leading London wholesale specialist broking firm.