General
Think Tank - The Geneva Association: An Investigation into the Insurability of Pandemic Risk
Liability insurance now begins at home
An emphasis on digital
The future of driving
Clean and green
The fight against fraudulent claims
Life & health
COVID-19 - a pre-existing disease?
Making mental health a corporate responsibility
Mental health: Little understood and often ignored
Navigating Asia Pacific life insurance and retirement trends
Winning through
The head of a pin
Digitisation, distribution, costs and regulation
Accelerate innovation, improve distribution and delivery
Reason for optimism
A bright year ahead for insurers and reinsurers in the Philippines
Telehealth and preventive healthcare
A year of transition
Finding focus in uncertainty
Trust and agility
COVID-19 brings greater awareness of systemic risks
Vietnam
Life insurers adapt to new realities
Regulatory focus: Insurance auxiliary services and training
Non-life shows promise despite muted growth
Reinsurance support crucial for continued non-life growth
Green pastures abound for InsurTechs
Continuing cross-border cooperation
Tech-enhanced actuaries
SIRC RE-MIND RE-WIND
Adding spice to life insurance for the salt and peppers
Agriculture insurance grows more resurgent
Insurers reposition portfolios with COVID-19 payouts in mind
Innovation is the way forward for the industry
Industry looking for a quick turnaround
Belief is what makes things possible in insurance
The future of third-party administration in Asia
It's officially La Niña: What Australia can expect this summer
Time for the world to take inclusive insurance seriously
Revealing insights from insurance industry leaders in Asia
Asian
Australia: Insurers' profits expected to be hit by sluggish top line and weak investment gains
China: P&C sector sinks into the red for 9M2020
HK-based InsurTech secures $14m Series A funding
India: General Insurance Council says motor policies must be renewed on time
Singapore: Life insurance industry shows signs of recovery
Sri Lanka: Global actuarial firm to begin operating after acquiring consulting firm
Risk
Role of risk officer in for big changes
Cities face increasing 'water risks' by 2050
People on the move
VISION 2021
INSURANCE - Life & health
Can insurers strike a balance between onboarding those infected by COVID-19 and their own sustainability without bringing COVID-19 into the category ofpre-existing disease?
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INSURANCE - General
Two Singaporean businesses – car marketplace Carro and insurer NTUC Income – partnered to launch the nation’s first usage-based motor insurance product to accommodate car owners’ needs.
The Geneva Association discusses the insurability of pandemic risk from the insurance industry’s perspective.
REINSURANCE
These are unusual times. The sudden and now prolonged change to our ‘normal’ lives – the perceived heightened risk, and with it, anxiety – will make 2020 a ‘memorable’ year for many of us.
NOTEBOOK
Third-party administration is not a new concept in the Asian market but the growth in opportunity and potential has been rapid as Asia represents an ideal hub to provide outsourced claims management services - not just in Asia but also for the rest...
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has officially declared 2020 a La Niña year. This irregular phenome-non interrupts Australia’s usual weather patterns. So what will this year’s summer look like?
Soon it will be Christmas. But the COVID index virulently surges ahead. Some markets are seeing the third wave and beyond, more lockdowns and the virus mutating to other mammals too. There are more than 60 million cases with almost 1.5...
While the pandemic has impacted the world in several deleterious ways, it has also opened up possibilities for insurers to exploit. Work-from-home is an area that creates new risk scenarios and hence, has immense potential for innovative insurance...
QBE has had a good year, despite COVID-19 hitting the business hard.
The Asia Insurance Industry Awards involve months and month of work and preparation and planning. People have come to rely on them as the only trusted yardstick of who was on the way up and who was the best-of-the-best. Coming to a shortlist and...
How quickly the world changed.
From IFRS17 to M&A, next year is sure to be a busy one on all fronts.
Lloyd’s has estimated that COVID-19 underwriting losses will ultimately cost somewhere in the order of $107bn, in line with some of the largest US hurricane catastrophe loss years.
The growth of the market has continued to sky-rocket – with COVID-19 doing little to dampen its upward trajectory.
The development of insurance regulation in Vietnam is very much a story of gradual incremental changes rather than sudden seismic overhaul.
While the rate of growth in general insurance is slowing down amid a weaker economic environment, Vietnam’s non-life prospects remains among the most enticing within Asean.
The ASEAN Insurance Council and ASEAN insurance regulators met once again in October, albeit online, as the work of building cross-border cooperation and public-private cooperation between the nations within ASEAN continue.
Alongside insurers, actuaries have also been forced to adapt and advance – data science is becoming increasingly important to their work, as is AI and machine learning and various technological tools.
In the midst of the biggest health crisis in a century, the SIRC 2020 - RE-MIND held virtually on 2-5 November managed to snag 1,500 registered delegates that delivered a peak of 600 concurrent attendees on the first day.
Agriculture insurance in China is growing at a healthy rate and now with the establishment of its own agriculture reinsurance company, it should ensure sustainable and stable agricultural insurance busi-ness.
Insurance carriers are resetting their investment framework to ensure better returns in a low-yield and low-growth global environment that looks like it is here to stay.
The Securities and Exchange Control of Pakistan (SECP) has been playing a very proactive role to help both consumers and the industry face the challenges thrown at it from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The insurance industry in Pakistan is going through a rough phase as the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted businesses, with economic stagnation further aggravating the situation.
Highlights from this year’s FT Asia Insurance Summit hold some fascinating insights for all segments of the insurance business in Asia.
Australian life and non-life insurers’ earnings are likely to fall due to top line pressure and weaker investment revenue according to a new report from Fitch Ratings on the country’s insurance sector.
P&C insurers in China are estimated to have incurred a combined net loss of CNY2.12bn ($318m) for the first three quarters of this year, turning around from a net profit of CNY45.2bn in the corresponding period in 2019.
Coherent, a provider of digital platforms to insurers, has raised U$14m in a Series A funding round led by global VC fund Cathay Innovation, with participation from Franklin Templeton. The funds would help the start-up expand its presence in Asia...