From Editor-in-Chief
Mark Tucker: The value of life insurance
Chris Fischer Hirs: Increasing risk complexity calls for greater client engagement
25th anniversary: Value of insurance to society - Making insurance invaluable
25th anniversary: Value of insurance to society - The regulator's view
25th anniversary: Value of insurance to society - Beyond protection
25th anniversary: Value of insurance to society - Celebrating Silver Jubilee
25th anniversary: Value of insurance to society - Saluting the Founder of Asia Insurance Review
AEC focus: Cross-border capital raising made possible in ASEAN
AEC focus: ASEAN trade growth could exceed global average by 2%
India focus: India's Insurance Bill finally sees the light of day
CEO summit: Reinvention - Now!
Product bites
Political and credit risks:The world's politics just got riskier
Political and credit risks: Trade Credit Insurance: The essential credit management tool
Political and credit risks: Risky business? - The changing landscape of trade credit risk in SE Asia
Brokers' summit: Brokers should focus on SMEs
Finance, risk and actuarial change in insurance: Three's company: From coexistence to cooperation
Structural fire: The forgotten risk of Jakarta
Robert A Cook: Reflections of an Asia regional CEO
Avicennia Capital: Malaysia's sovereign fund seeks insurance opportunities
Albert Benchimol and Emmanuel Clarke on enhancing position and efficiencies in AXIS-Partner Re
PII International insurance: Interview with SECP Chairman - Pakistan: Slow but steady growth
Risk managers bulk up: From managers to strategists
Bring on the bad news - the challenging role of a Risk Manager
Can insurers cover more speculative forms of risk?
The risk manager as chief strategist
Filling the gaps in construction risks
Food matters - Calling for solution recipe
Hong Kong: Shine on
Interview with regulator: 2014 was a good year
Hong Kong insurance industry faces sweeping changes
Thriving in Hong Kong's evolving insurance environment
Starr hitches wagon to Asian growth
Hong Kong: Proposed introduction of risk-based capital regime
Takaful in Malaysia: Bringing retakaful to the next level
Takaful in Malaysia: Minimising the Protection Gap in Malaysia: Where do we go from here?
The upside of risk management: Fair outcomes for customers
Attempts to embellish an insurance claim can prove costly
Regulatory updates
Digitisation in insurance: What does it really mean?
Afro-Asia: FAIR syndicate to cover nuclear energy risk
Asia: Highest tsunami risk in Taiwan from major EQ in Manila Trench
Asia: Responding to disasters no longer sufficient for ASEAN nations - Malaysian DPM
Asia: Five Asian countries in top 10 list of Aon Benfield's Country Opportunity Index
Asia: Emerging markets' private health premiums to double by 2020
Australia: Cyclone Marcia bill busts A$400 mln
Australia: ANZIIF launches trans-Tasman Women in Insurance roadshow
Bangladesh: IFC to partner Green Delta for Crop insurance project
China: Lloyd's opens Beijing Branch, expects premiums to double
Approval for first-ever Chinese shipping insurer
China's credit insurance growth hampered by high fees
Hong Kong: AXA and Zurich remain largest insurers by GWP in 2014
HKFI launches Young Insurance Executive Development Programme
India: Willis signs joint venture with Almondz
Sompo Japan acquires stake in French reinsurer SCOR
Nepal: Regulator makes it mandatory for insurers to go rural
Pakistan: EFU Life launches Window Family Takaful operations
Singapore: Next round of risk-based capital study scheduled in Q2
Singapore: Great American Insurance lands in Lion City
Singapore: SIRC to go annual from 2017 onwards
Singapore: General insurance sector sees 37.4% jump in underwriting profit in 2014
Taiwanese financial groups seek M&A in SE Asia
Taiwan: Large-scale infrastructure projects to boost non-life sector
Lloyd's opens Dubai office
New study shows little prospect of reducing disaster losses
Warren Buffett on the importance of underwriting discipline
IIS renames Annual Seminar to Global Insurance Forum in strategic move
Diary of events
People on the move
Mr Robert A Cook, President & CEO, Manulife Asia from 2007 to 2015, looks back at his eight years spent at the helm of the Canadian life insurer's Asian arm, as he steps down from his position after 36 years spent with the company.
Buy Now
Mr Alexander Ankel, CEO of Avicennia Capital, shares on the opportunities he sees in the industry and the strategic advantages this insurance holding arm of Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional brings to the table for present and future subsidiaries. By Benjamin Ang
On 25 January, AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd and PartnerRe Ltd announced the signing of an US$11 billion merger agreement to create one of the world's largest specialty insurance and reinsurance companies, with gross premiums written in excess of $10 billion, total capital of more than $14 billion, and cash and invested assets of approximately $32 billion.