Time for a reckoning
Saving for retirement is primary financial goal for Hongkongers
MDRT Day Singapore 2021 highlights
Making financial advisory more intuitive and scalable
General
Coal industry being hauled over the coals
Insurance growth may lie with low-income women
Life & health
The ABC of HSBC and AXA
The business of saving
Modernising insurance for a new generation of consumers
Care for an insurance subscription?
Malaysia
Insurance regulation shaped by strategic priorities
Slowdown in the life sector
Powering forward through the pandemic
Malaysia's takaful landscape
Takaful recovers strongly
Stable outlook for Malaysia's non-life market
Tough times as new opportunities emerge
Growth of captives
Insurance for new energy vehicles
Catastrophe insurance needed for flood losses
Exploring self-insurance solutions in a new risk landscape
More environment friendly, more sustainable
F&B sector faces rising threat of cyber attacks
View from India - Simplifying the claims process
Processing insights into results
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - New care models for older and sicker societies
Insights from the industry
Asian
China: Regulator tightens crackdown on errant internet insurance activities
India: Local partner of Aviva Life to give up majority stake
Singapore: HSBC to acquire AXA for $575m
Thailand: Life insurance sector deliberates pension products
Risk
July 2021 was world's third-hottest July on record
Proposed mutual insurer for coal industry
Product Bites
People on the move
INNOVATION IN INSURANCE
INSURANCE - Life & health
Newspaper headlines were abuzz in August with the news that HSBC Insurance had pitched to buy AXA Singapore for $575m. But why? We spoke to HSBC Life’s Mr Bryce Johns to understand where its future focus will be.
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MARKET PROFILE - Malaysia
Malaysia has not let the pandemic get in the way of updating its comprehensive insurance regulatory regime. We spoke to Bank Negara Malaysia’s Mr Adnan Zaylani to find out more. Malaysia has not let the pandemic get in the way of updating its...
Malaysia has recovered from its struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic and this has had a positive impact on reinsurance as well.
NOTEBOOK - Think Tank
In a new report, The Geneva Association explores how health and life insurers can adopt new care models to influence care at all life stages seamlessly and keep costs in check, drawing on the findings of a literature review and 15 high-level...
The remaining quarter of 2021 is showing signs of being tricky for the insurance industry in Asia. Three fairly significant factors are converging to make the immediate future more unpredictable than usual.
Close to one-third of Hong Kong people said their financial priority at present is to save for retirement, according to a new survey commissioned by Manulife. The research also revealed that in addition to maintaining good health and current living...
At the MDRT Day Singapore 2021 virtual event that took place on 4 August, experts gathered to share their insights on how to achieve success post-pandemic rather than trying to wait it out and hope for things to return to what they were before.
InsurTech 360F has unveiled a new global release of its full modular product suite, including flagship solutioning optimiser 360-ProVestment. This latest release is designed to optimise adviser capabilities with scale economics and lays a strong...
As major insurers and reinsurers refuse to cover new coal projects, global coal companies are considering setting up a mutual insurance company to cover their mining projects and other operations.
Insurance providers are missing out on a major untapped market – one that not only makes good business sense, but also presents an opportunity to build broader economic resilience and support women’s economic empowerment.
Over the last few years, insurers have been heavily focused on finding ways to tap into the younger generation that will be their primary consumers in the future.
Could buying insurance be akin to getting Netflix? One insurer is trying to deliver that by offering insurance in customisable subscription packs with no lock-in periods.
The Malaysian life insurance sector recorded moderate single-digit growth of 4% in total business in 2020, but the industry is optimistic of a turnaround.
As the world’s largest new energy vehicles market, China is expected to pass 2m sales in 2021 and it is estimated its production and sales growth rate will remain above 40% for the next five years.
Henan floods in China in July this year have once again brought up the issue of catastrophe insurance in the country. There is a wide protection gap that isn’t easy to bridge.
A panel of self-insurance experts got together at a webinar to discuss risk-mitigation strategies and how captives could be the solution to a full customised risk management programme.
The pandemic and climate change have made the insurance industry realise that it has a much bigger social and environmental role to play that favours its very own long-term sustainability. encouraging and promoting better environmental care.
Many markets have witnessed a significant increase in demand for online shopping for fresh food and groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic,which has a far-reaching impact on the cyber risk landscape for the food and beverage industry.
The insurance industry in India, despite high incurred claims ratios year after year, does not seem to have gained the trust of consumers. How can things be simplified to bridge the trust deficit?
QBE has been on a trajectory for digitising its claims processes since 2018, which was then greatly accelerated by the events of 2020.
Every week, Asia Insurance Review surveys its readership to glean insights into the big issues that confront leading executives in insurance and reinsurance in the region. The results of our surveys are published in the form of a series of...
The CBIRC is making internet insurance a major focus of its supervisory work, covering in particular misleading sales, forced bundling of insurance plans, high costs and illegal operations such as the leakage of information. These are areas where...
The Burman family will reduce its stake in the life venture, Aviva Life Insurance, from 51% at present to 26%. Aviva’s holding will rise to 74%, giving the foreign partner equity control of the life insurer, sources told Livemint.
HSBC Insurance (Asia-Pacific) Holdings, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings (HSBC), has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the issued share capital of AXA Insurance (AXA Singapore) for $575m.
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