MSIG: Speed in the hour of need
Singapore Life: Breathing new life into the Singapore market
2nd Asia Trusted Life Agents and Advisers Awards: An inspiration to Asia's life insurance industry
The CEO's guide: Leading the digital transformation
Life Insurance
Roundtable: Jazzing up the shine in the Asian Life markets
Microinsurance: The quest for effective distribution
Banks & Life in mutual reflection
Thailand
Strong, steady & seeking sustainability
Interview with the Regulator: Engaging disruption to benefit the industry
Life: Positive outlook for 2017
Weaving social needs into protection innovation
Non-life: Steady and strong
Non-life: A paradigm shift
Myanmar
The queue just got longer
Risk Management
Risk Quality Benchmarking: The process and benefits
Agent Stand Tall
Agents in South Asia: They're still alive and kicking
Innovation Focus
Take charge and be a game changer for future success
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - Sovereign Risk Financing and Risk Transfer Schemes: A critical component of a comprehensive disaster risk management strategy
View from India
Home insurance: Indians are not at home with it!
Sustainability
Innovating for sustainable aquaculture growth
Focus on Investments
Opportunities for investment growth amidst a regulatory power up
New solvency regimes will alter approach to investments
CAT Focus
CAT resilience: Cementing the cornerstones
IT in Insurance
Impact of five technology forces on the Engagement Era
Cyber
Risk management across supply chain vital to cyber defence
Asian
Asia: Next EAIC set for May 2018
Milestone development: InsurTech Asia Association launched
Asia: AIDA's APIC to be held in October in Singapore
Asia Pacific: Regional giants to drive global life market
Asia: Tan Suee Chieh elected to council of IFoA
Asia: CIOs to forge ahead on InsurTech battleground
Asia: Protecting crops and farmers
Asia: SMART pensions for ageing populations
Australia: Moderate life growth seen for this year
Over 50 finalists in Australian Insurance Industry Awards
Cambodia: Life to push overall market growth
China: Insurance asset management to see reform in 6 areas
China: Super regulator to be formed
Hong Kong: New regulator to streamline rules to boost FinTech
Japan: More new products targeted at dementia-related issues
India: Regulator takes big step to protect policyholders
South Korea: Govt looking at getting health insurers to cut premiums
Malaysia: More than 55% of firms lack business liability cover
Malaysia: Takaful sector to consolidate due to regulatory pressures
Nepal: Microinsurance gets a huge push
Nepal: Beema Samiti slashes premium rates for Riot Strike and Terrorism
Philippines: Number of non-life insurers to dwindle for want of funds
Singapore: Govt looks into administering long-term care insurance scheme
Sri Lanka: World Bank calls for national disaster risk funding strategy
Thailand: Online car insurance broking startup targets US$3 bln premiums in 1st year
Global
Businesses need to prepare for full costs of cyber attacks: Lloyd's
Swiss Re to integrate ESG benchmarks into investment decisions
IIS designates 20 universities as GCIE
Corporate Risk Management
Global: Inaugural pandemic bonds launched to support $500 million Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility - World Bank
Global: Cyber can be as destructive as hurricanes in terms of losses
Product Bytes
Events Page
PARIMA Shanghai 2017 highlights risk management concerns in China
People on the move
In with the new
Automation Insurance: Threat or Opportunity?
Are there bubbles in Zhong An Insurance's IPO?
Changing the cyber game in Singapore
Blazing the way for online insurance in India
COVER STORY - Life Insurance
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COUNTRY PROFILE - Thailand
With continued domestic economic growth and the improvement of insurers’ products and services, there is growing awareness of the benefits of insurance, both life and non-life.
SPOTLIGHT - Myanmar
A total of 24 foreign insurers and brokers have set up representative offices in Myanmar, the least insured economy in ASEAN. They continue to wait with hope and optimism for this “last frontier market” of 55 million people.
Mr David Wright of Pacific Life Re Asia looks at innovation opportunities in existing product propositions that have the potential to address Thailand’s increasing gap, making insurance more accessible to everyone.
INSIGHTS - Think Tank
The Geneva Association, in collaboration with the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), is introducing a framework for the development of sovereign risk financing and risk transfer programmes as critical components of a comprehensive approach to...
INSIGHTS - Focus on Investments
Mr Paul Sandhu of Conning Asia Pacific Limited outlines some of the new and evolving market dynamics facing insurers in Asia, specifically in China, and possible solutions to support the upward momentum of Asia’s insurance market.
INSIGHTS - IT in Insurance
With InsurTech exploding and disrupting the insurance scene, Mr Ian Tavener of Guidewire shares five technology forces and their impact on the sector.
August is losing its holiday appeal with so much happening on the business front. The pace is still fast in Asia with digital and InsurTech bursting forth with new ideas and products at every nook and cranny. We now have our own Asia InsurTech...
MSIG Asia CEO Alan Wilson says helping customers when they are most vulnerable is key and is what runs through the insurer’s DNA. He explains how the company’s latest digital initiative promises haste in its claims service, so its...
The first local insurer to be licensed in Singapore in nearly 50 years wants to make buying life insurance a more pleasant experience. We speak to its founder and CEO Mr Walter de Oude.
Agents reign! Indefatigable and invaluable in their advice to the community, life agents continue to triumph in the industry. At the 2nd Asia Trusted Life Agents and Advisers Awards presentation on 12 July held in Singapore, the life insurance...
We bring you the crucial tips that every CEO today should have to successfully implement digital change as suggested by the Boston Consulting Group.
Digital strategies, the ongoing challenges of cyber security, hidden growth nuggets and empowering agents were the topics of discussion at Asia Insurance Review’s Life Regional CEO Roundtable in Hong Kong.
The global microinsurance market has a potential of covering up to 4 billion people. However, this is not an easy task and finding the right distribution channel is the crux of it all, say Ms April Li of The Travelers, Mr Scott Swanay of XL Catlin,...
Cross selling High Net Worth (HNW) products is becoming an attractive proposition for many life insurers across Asia. In Hong Kong, currently there are at least 15 insurers selling HNW Universal life products (defined as minimum sum insured >...
In this exclusive interview with Dr Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn, Secretary-General of the Office of Insurance Commission (OIC), Thailand, he gives an in-depth view of the insurance industry today and shares that the OIC is focused on technological...
Life premiums are expected to reach US$17.6 billion in 2017, an increase of 6% from 2016. The main factors for this projection are the continued domestic economic growth, the improvement of insurers’ products and services, and the growing...
Companies should use risk quality benchmarking tools to identify risks with the most significant weaknesses, says Mr Ben Hazelton from Generali.
While a number of mature insurance markets have sounded the death knell for insurance agents, they are very much the driving force of the industryin all South Asian markets and will continue to do sofor a very long time.
New technologies enabling financial services companies to improve their speed to market, reduce costs and create new business opportunities; reimagining the organisation for future success – these are some of the topics at the Operational...
In India, many are still ignoring issues pertaining to safety and security of their homes. Could the new Real Estate Regulatory Authority Act (RERA Act) be a game-changer?
Asia is home to several of the world’s largest aquaculture production countries including China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh and South Korea. Mr Yu Deng of Swiss Re discusses the expanding sector and how insurance...
The EAIC Executive Board has set the dates for the 29th East Asian Insurance Congress to be from 6-9 May 2018 in Manila, in summer rather than in the traditional fall period. The decision was made at a board meeting in Manila last month.
A new dedicated InsurTech Asia Association is being launched to mark a milestone development in the regional insurance market.
The inaugural Asia Pacific Insurance Conference (APIC), a regional conference organised by a collection of major insurance-related organisations affiliated under the auspices of the International Insurance Law Association/Association Internationale...
As the millennial generation enters the workforce, the insurance industry faces a tough challenge - how do we get these innovative and tech-savvy people to join the industry?
The future is becoming less predictable every day. If insurers want to stay relevant to tomorrow’s needs, Mr Benjamin Pring of Cognizant says they must build agility into everything.
After prolonged speculation of Zhong An Insurance going public, the InsurTech unicorn has finally made a move. The online insurer formally filed for an IPO in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 June and the news has garnered much attention from not...