Heinrich Eder: 13,149 days in the reinsurance market
Markel: Strong potential growth for credit insurance in Asia
DBS: Let the results speak!
Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards 2016 - The selection of Asia's first Insurance Agent of the Year!
Agents and Life Management - The tech-enabled adviser
Agents and Life Management - The decline, or not, of the life agency channel in Asia
Life Insurance Disruption - Vulnerable segments
Nat CATs in Asia - Special Roundtable Focus: How can the industry do more?
Nat CATs in Asia - The known unknowns in CAT modelling
Nat CATs in Asia - Population displacement: A catastrophe risk
Myanmar - A country opening to the world
Myanmar - Total liberalisation will happen soon
Myanmar - Asia's last frontier economy now opens to the world
Myanmar - AIA: Foreign insurers can help develop the market
Myanmar - Myanmar's insurance needs
Myanmar - Protecting and maintaining investment flows
Innovation: Wellness, wearables, and universal truths
Automated underwriting for the future
Life Journey Asia: How life insurers in Asia can grow value
Think Tank - Big Data, Big Impact
Legal Page - Pricing risk: The importance of considering the Insured's corporate culture
Anti-Money Laundering - Risky Business: Money laundering and the insurance industry
Bancassurance - Evolving with bank customers
M&A Focus - Winning the M&A game
Interview - Land of the rising risk managers
Interview - An emerging but risky business
AEC Focus - Removing non-tariff barriers a key priority for AEC
AEC Focus - ASEAN: Nominations for YAMA 2016 are open
Asia: Lloyd's, Guy Carp and UK's Met Office in move to create agricultural weather index for SEA
Asia: Allianz launches its first innovation lab in Asia
Asia: Macau launches programme for "Young Insurance Practitioners" in EAIC
Australia: Profit expectations pushing up premium rates
China - CIRC launches Shanghai Insurance Exchange
Hong Kong: BHSI secures one of Asia's largest insurance deals
Hong Kong: Entries for HK Insurance Awards 2016 open
India: First-ever national disaster management plan unveiled
Indonesia: Insurance execs upbeat about industry prospects this year
Japan: Negative interest rates shut down savings-type policies
South Korea: Insurers sell assets ahead of new accounting rules
Malaysia: Health Minister warns out-of-pocket spending too high
New Zealand: Room for life insurers to move from commission system
Pakistan: Finance Minister proposes tax revamp for insurers
Philippines: More consolidation ahead in non-life sector
Singapore: MAS introduces regulatory sandbox to test fintech solutions
Singapore: A need to address rising healthcare costs
Thailand: Life sector to grow, but less robustly
Vietnam: Insurance premiums up 20% in Jan-Apr to more than US$1 bln
Global News - Germany and France looking at EUR1-2 billion of insured losses from floods
Global News - AXA Group divests assets in the tobacco industry
Global News - Imaginatik and Ingenin: Walking hand in hand towards innovation
Corporate Risk Management News - Asia's risk management community can do more for CAT risks: PARIMA
Corporate Risk Management News - Singapore: New cyber risk management initiative "CyRiM" launched
Corporate Risk Management News - Top emerging risks for (re)insurance industry identified: Swiss Re
Curtain-raiser - 20th AAC beckons you to Gurugram!
Product Bytes
Events Page - The 35th Korean Re Seminar brings together global reinsurance experts
Diary of Events
People on the move
COVER STORY
In 2015, there was a record of close to 200 natural catastrophes. Uninsured losses continue to run high, especially among the rural and agrarian community in Asia. In a roundtable hosted by Asia Insurance Review with the CEO of Allianz Re as the keynote speaker, a group of 12 insurers, academics and modelling experts looked at how the insurance industry can go beyond the limit to better serve the needs of the economy, society and the poor.
The agency force continues to be the core distribution channel for life insurance companies. To remain so, the mission is clear: Move beyond insurance expertise and become a tech-enabled adviser.
COUNTRY PROFILE
There are 12 domestic private insurers, one stateowned insurer and 22 foreign representative insurers in Myanmar today. Both regulator and domestic insurers have benefitted from the presence of the foreign players and the collaboration among them...
After 36 years in reinsurance, Heinrich Eder, Managing Director at Munich Re Australasia, who is retiring from his position in July 2016, reflects on the observations made, values discovered and conclusions drawn.
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Markel International's trade credit & political risk team in Singapore celebrated its fifth anniversary recently. Credit and political risk insurance has grown significantly in the region, with total private market premium in Asia Pacific amounting...
Heads were turned in April 2015 when DBS and Manulife sealed their bancassurance agreement which became effective 1 January this year. We catch up with Mr Rick Vargo, Managing Director and Regional Head of Bancassurance, DBS, to check on the...
After weeks of deliberation, 50 out of 500 entries made it to the finals of the Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards 2016, the first ever of its kind to shine the spotlight on our industry's unsung heroes and intermediaries.
An industry expert uses his company's 2015 data to validate the common assumptions around the decline (or not) of the agency channel in Asian markets.
Underserved market segments are vulnerable to competition from disruptors, and that disruption, whether external or internal, is inevitable.
Myanmar has opened its door to foreign insurers, though in a restricted manner but this has enthused the insurance market worldwide which sees huge opportunity in this last frontier economy. We speak to Dr Maung Maung Thein*, Deputy Minister,...
Myanmar, also known as the "last frontier nation" for foreign investors, has opened its doors to foreign insurers. According to the Myanmar Insurance Business Supervision Committee, 22 insurance companies have set up representative offices in...
Is wearable technology the golden fleece that holds out the best prospect of delivering market-disrupting change to insurance markets on a global scale?
Technology will have an enormous impact on the insurance industry over the next decade. In the near term, it is viewed that the largest impact is likely to be on underwriting and distribution.
Asian life insurers on average deliver returns below their cost of capital, but a few carriers create significant value. What do they do differently?
The Geneva Association's Chief Risk Officers Roundtable meeting in Copenhagen analysed how Big Data and ecosystems are a disruptive force that could threaten insurance incumbents throughout the value chain.
For insurers, the culture of the organisations they underwrite is increasingly becoming a critical issue in order to assess risk. Find out why.
Money laundering dangers fall into four categories and these can be characterised as financial, regulatory, legal and public relations. We bring you this curtain-raiser to our first-ever Asia Anti-Money Laundering Conference in Singapore this month.
Following the 2011 devastating Tohoku earthquake and Thai floods, there was a growth in establishing business continuity management programmes as Japanese corporations were hard hit by major service and supply disruptions.
There are so many emerging risks that prioritising them is an ongoing challenge. Read how one of the world's oldest insurers manages this.