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General
How insurers can help tackle challenges in 2021
Life & health
Big developments within the insurance sector
The Geneva Association - Digital health: Is the euphoria justified?
India
Life insurance will be an essential part of people's lives
Moving from push to pull
Health insurance scaling new heights
Crop insurance needs a review
A case study of nuclear risk reinsurance
Looking back and looking ahead
Non-life post-pandemic strategy
Insurers and InsurTechs are working 'smart'
Intermediaries and the enhanced foreign investment limit
Will bancassurance survive the pandemic?
The changing dynamics of cyber insurance
COVID-19 a defining moment for the insurance industry
The three Cs of risk
Upholding tenets of the actuarial profession
ASEAN faces the future
Grassroots, non-Nat CAT and pandemic-proof
M&A insurance in Asia: An unnecessary cost or a game-changer?
Long-term care insurance
Low interest rates suppress Korean, Chinese and Japanese insurers' operating margins in 2021
Sustainable and resilient future
Singapore FinTech Festival: Cyber crime in the digital age
Is COVID-19 here to stay?
Insights from the industry
M&A is vital to insurers' resilience
Countless opportunities for insurers
China looking for long-term stability with motor reform
Indian life insurance sector on revival path
Internal lapses main cause of most cyber claims
Global insurance protection gap rises to $5.78tn
Asian
Australia: Better measures needed to understand insurance affordability
China: Insurance sector posts 6.9% growth in first 10 months of 2020
India: Aon re-enters insurance broking
Indonesia: Code of practice issued for general insurance agents
Malaysia: Life insurance market shows recovery in 3Q2020
Vietnam: Manulife seals bancassurance partnership, buys Aviva's local operations
Risk
Extreme poverty could engulf over 1bn people by 2030
Falling groundwater levels put South and Central Asia farming at risk
Product bites
People on the move
MARKET PROFILE - India
INVESTMENT
The credit profiles of the Asia-Pacific insurance sector are predominantly influenced by factors including consistently low interest rates, the severity of a negative spread, risky assets exposure, pricing adequacy, a duration mismatch gap between...
REINSURANCE
The 10 Southeast Asian markets that make up ASEAN will have to contend with a slower insurance premium growth due to the COVID-19 crisis.
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INSURANCE - Life & health
Global healthcare expenditure is projected to rise from $9tn to $24tn between 2014 and 2040.
M&A
M&A insurance has been gaining increasing recognition in Asia in recent years, but its growth in usage has not kept up with the pace of M&A activity in the region.
Few would argue that last year was anything but awful for business. While most executives can assume the role of passenger – or perhaps backseat driver – on the rocky road through 2021, someone has to be in the driving seat.
When I look back through the archival editions of our insurance publications, I find it to have been an industry content to be pleasantly but boringly static and ‘starchy’, a kind of uniform for risk management when it is interpreted...
The Global Federation of Insurance Associations’ Mr Don Forgeron discusses how insurers will continue to help tackle some of the big issues facing society.
The year 2020 has been one of the most challenging in living memory for many inthe insurance sector. As we finish off this year we start to look ahead to the next.
We spoke with the Life Insurance Corporation of India about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and how perceptions have changed towards insurance.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the Indian life insurance landscape as people seek protection in the midst of the fear and uncertainty surrounding them which will boost insurance penetration.
Health insurance is today the largest portfolio in the non-life segment having overtaken the dominant motor segment.
Climate change, cyber and COVID-19; the so-called three Cs of risk were the topics covered during the Singapore Actuarial Society’s Super Week.
At the recently held virtual ASHK Actuarial Summit, speakers convened to discuss attracting talent, talent development and product innovation.
For many years, players in the insurance sector have pinned their hopes on Asia. Sometimes this interest is plain vanilla and involves opening branches and rep offices – and sometimes it is far more subtle.
Long-term care for an increasingly ageing population is a matter of concern for China.
The Asian Insurance Forum 2020 was held this year with the theme ‘spearheading change for a sustainable and resilient future’ and managed to secure the highest ever attendance for this annual event.
The world has become a lot more connected over the past year with online, on-demand shopping at an all-time high.
COVID-19 has already inflicted the biggest peacetime economic shock since the Great Depression of 1928. A Cigna report reveals that stress levels are at an all-time high and many people think that COVID is here to stay.
Companies cannot rely on organic growth alone, which is why programmatic M&A has been an element of every resilient company’s growth. This is according to McKinsey’s latest report on insurance growth strategy in Asia.
Office of Insurance Commission, Thailand secretary-general and insurance commissioner Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn offered some insightful remarks for insurers during the opening keynote session of this year’s FT Asia Insurance Summit held...
On 19 September this year, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) introduced a comprehensive motor insurance reform to address a number of pressing issues plaguing the industry such as high pricing, high handling fees,...
Households in up to 12% of Australian postcodes may face pressure meeting annual home insurance premiums according to a major research paper from the Actuaries Institute.
According to data from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the insurance industry posted total gross premiums amounting to CNY3.96tn ($604bn) in the first 10 months of 2020 – representing an increase of 6.9% over the...
Aon recently announced its re-entry into the insurance broking market in India after acquiring a 49% equity stake in Anviti Insurance Brokers.
MSIG and Carro introduce usage-based auto insurance to reward safe drivers ICICI Lombard and Plum co-create group health insurance products Etiqa Singapore launches all-in-one insurance savings policy