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Editor's Letter
Magazine article aboutWhen-the-stopgap-becomes-the-strategy

When the stopgap becomes the strategy

Market Profile
Magazine article aboutThe-APAC-insurance-market-according-to-Verisk-a-diverse-region-on-the-move

Singapore

The APAC insurance market according to Verisk: a diverse region on the move

Building on government initiatives to advance sustainable healthcare

Compounding factors shift insurer focus to healthspan

Navigating claims profitably, and climate risk sustainably

Regulatory reforms shape MDW insurance

HDI Global bets on specialist depth as Singapore's role as a regional risk hub evolves

Robust economic indicators driving insurance industry growth in 2026

Reinsurance
Magazine article aboutFrom-capacity-to-capability-The-value-of-strategic-retakaful-and-reinsurance-partnerships

From capacity to capability: The value of strategic retakaful and reinsurance partnerships

Indian insurance is now looking beyond growth to resilience

Structured reinsurance offers a way through a softer market

The state of retakaful and the road ahead

Asia's wealth will continue to drive demand for HNW solutions

Combining speed and discipline

India emerges as APAC L&H reinsurance hotspot

APAC reinsurers face further pricing pressure in 2027

Reinsurer eyes APAC expansion anchored in strategic partnerships

The first Lloyd's syndicate dedicated to the Indian market

India offers huge opportunities for foreign reinsurers

Indian cedants today have an array of options for their reinsurance needs

Insurance
Magazine article aboutKeeping-Asia-insurable-as-catastrophe-risks-mount

General

Keeping Asia insurable as catastrophe risks mount

Insuring Asia's infrastructure boom

In the new age of data assets, flexibility is king

Sustainability and climate resilience must be embedded into modern business strategy

Australia: Cyber-attacks continue to evolve; can the insurers keep pace?

Changing nature of risks rewrites claims settlement process

MGAs help close Asia-Pacific's specialty insurance gap

Malaysia motor insurers face claims inflation as EV adoption accelerates

Data centre expansion is creating concentrated risks

EAIC 2026: Asia's insurers move from diagnosing the gap to delivering cover

Tokyo's flood defence: a city engineered to stay dry

Life & health

Successfully navigating the redefined modern Asian legacy

Financial institutions urged to strengthen oversight of premium-financed life policies

View from India
Magazine article aboutWhen-vehicles-start-talking-insurance-must-listen

When vehicles start talking, insurance must listen

Brokers are concerned about regulator's proposed reforms on commissions

China
Magazine article aboutChina-s-Insurance-regulator-and-three-major-rebuilding-exercises-in-twenty-five-years

China's Insurance regulator and three major rebuilding exercises in twenty-five years

Notebook
Magazine article aboutAI-transformation-drives-human-revolution

AI transformation drives human revolution

Sometimes, the most consequential risk is the connection between risks

News

Asian

Australia: Stronger homes are required for better resilience as climate change aggravates

Malaysia: Life insurers welcome government's plan to subsidise the first-year health insurance premium for eligible employees at SMEs

New Zealand: Around 10,000 homes could become hard to insure by 2035

Singapore: Health and wealth to drive growth for life insurers

Products and Alliances

Products and Alliances

Diary
People on the move

People on the move

Insurance

General

Keeping Asia insurable as catastrophe risks mount

Asia faces a disproportionate amount of NatCAT events each year, and insurers must approach this challenge from different angles.
 

Insuring Asia's infrastructure boom

Grid expansion, data centres and coastal land reclamation are the next test for engineering insurers, but skills, data and models needed to underwrite them are insufficient.
 

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In the new age of data assets, flexibility is king

With the many emerging risks and challenges data centres face, as operators rush to develop campuses in order to meet demand, flexibility may be the new asset in the segment.
 

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Sustainability and climate resilience must be embedded into modern business strategy

Businesses face material disruptions across global supply chains, and must adapt to survive, but the path to climate adaptation and resilience is full of complex financial hurdles.
 

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Australia: Cyber-attacks continue to evolve; can the insurers keep pace?

Australian businesses overall remain grossly uninsured and underinsured, as far as cyber security is concerned, despite the availability of ever broadening coverage at ever shrinking prices.
 

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Changing nature of risks rewrites claims settlement process

Current claims settlement processes very often involve a chain of people, either in coordination with AI and other technologies and/or claims professionals, but the human touch is still important.
 

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MGAs help close Asia-Pacific's specialty insurance gap

Managing general agents can help address specialty insurance gaps across Asia-Pacific by providing specialist underwriting expertise and access to underserved markets, but sustainable growth will depend on strong governance, technological investment and long-term partnerships.
 

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Malaysia motor insurers face claims inflation as EV adoption accelerates

Rising repair costs, claims inflation and electric vehicle adoption are reshaping Malaysia’s motor insurance market.
 

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Data centre expansion is creating concentrated risks

India’s data centre boom is creating significant pockets of concentrated risks, which need to be identified and managed early.
 

EAIC 2026: Asia's insurers move from diagnosing the gap to delivering cover

The 31st East Asian Insurance Congress returned to Tokyo, where it began in 1964. Its sessions kept coming back to the same question: how to turn familiar diagnoses of underinsurance into protection that lasts.
 

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Tokyo's flood defence: a city engineered to stay dry

Delegates at EAIC 2026 toured the Tokyo Resilience Project’s storm surge and underground river infrastructure, where automated triggers, layered redundancy and decades of public investment keep one of the world’s most exposed metropolitan areas above water.
 

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Life & health

Successfully navigating the redefined modern Asian legacy

As individuals in Asia prepare to live longer and remain self-sufficient for as long as they can, the resulting shift in mindset will herald shifts in insurer core product design, including in longevity income solutions and integrated health services.
 

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Financial institutions urged to strengthen oversight of premium-financed life policies

Premium financing can expose life insurance customers to repayment pressures and surrender risks, making coordinated oversight of policy suitability, loan affordability and customer protection essential.
 

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