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Milestone Memories
Leadership insights
Making insurance relevant for the masses
Importance of digital - and people
Climate change and insurance: Putting scientific knowledge into action
Next era of insurance will be defined by inclusivity
Writing the future of Indian health insurance
Future of insurance and how regulation can support
Claims settlement can be pleasant
Whole health, working patterns and technology
Life insurance market outlook
InsurTechs: Enablers or disruptors?
Connected, cool and no longer a tech laggard
All's well that ends better
A look at the life insurer of tomorrow
The future of bancassurance in Asia
The future of insurance
Redefining insurance education for the future
Asia Pacific to power growth for insurers
Supply chain vulnerabilities a blind spot for cyber security
The future of (non-life) insurance in the region
The future of life insurance in Asia
Redefining insurance broking through risk advisory
The future of life insurance in Australia
Private medical insurance in Southeast Asia
Data analytics to drive insurance business in APAC
Insurance and reinsurance in a post-COVID-19 world
Philippine insurance in a post-COVID-19 world
Digital technology and going green
Managing healthcare will no longer be a solo activity
The future of insurance is promising
Embedded insurance: The future of InsurTech
General
Building vibrant and resilient insurance markets
Finding solutions for the next decade
Health insurance has gone mainstream
View from India - Indian insurance at a tipping point
Life & health
Mental health - time for insurers to shed their inhibitions
Is income protection the missing piece in the protection jigsaw puzzle?
Vietnam
Opportunities abound in reinsurance
A push for reforms
Growth despite challenges
Rising economic activity bodes well for industry
Capitalising on digital demand
Long shadows, high hopes
Climate change is top priority again
Rare diseases need out-of-the-box insurance treatment
The Geneva Association - Future urban risk landscapes: An insurance perspective
Adapting and transforming in more resilient societies
APAC state-level engagement in cyber
Pandemic disruption accelerates insurance M&A across Asia
Data, data everywhere, insurance is on the brink
Operating in a dynamic environment
Exploring the Nat CAT insurance gap in ASEAN
Insights from the industry
Asian
Asia: Top 50 insurers affected by COVID-19 to varying extent
Asia: More volatility expected for reinsurers as risks evolve
Asia: Online P&C personal lines market could attract premiums of $7.5bn over next 5 years
Risk
Southeast Asia is highly stressed
Remote workers a greater cyber threat than office workers
Product bites
People on the move
REINSURANCE
NOTEBOOK
Malaysian Re launched its thought leadership publication focusing on Nat CAT impacts on ASEAN insurance markets.
INSURANCE - General
Market dynamics, consumer sentiment, climate change and fintech adoption are the four factors driving the insurance markets in Asia Pacific, according to Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Mr Clement Cheung.
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Climate change is making scientific insights all the more important. As the world gets warmer, the climate-related risks change and the way humans are developing is only intensifying any effect we will see in the future, says Allianz Re’s Dr...
INSURANCE - Life & health
Pacific Life Re’s Mr David Wright explains why income protection could help to offer more consumers complete protection.
RISK
A new Geneva Association report takes a close look at the dynamics of future urban risk landscapes and the potential role of insurers in mitigating emerging vulnerabilities, says the association’s Dr Kai-Uwe Schanz.
Thirty years. That is how long Asia Insurance Review has been published, without fail. For some of our readers, 1991 will be the ‘old days’ – before they were born.
The likely changes across the insurance landscape over the next 10 years will be more wide ranging than over the last 30. COVID-19 has provided the catalyst for many companies to transform and digitalise many aspects of their business, particularly...
As we look to the next five years and beyond, we have to plan for a post-COVID world and integrate all of our learnings from the past 20 months into everything that we do going forward. Agility, flexibility and adaptability have always been critical...
Over the next decade, digital adoption will transform the whole insurance business model and insurers must prioritise their progress in order to keep up with their customers.
The COVID-19 outbreak has spurred growth of health insurance worldwide and insurers are now increasingly focusing on telehealth and wellness programmes to stay competitive.
The reinsurance sector in Vietnam has been the ‘quiet achiever’ during the pandemic. We spoke to PVI Reinsurance’s Mr Trinh Anh Tuan about the big issues facing the sector.
Vietnam’s new draft Insurance Business Law that now awaits approval from the country’s National Assembly is perhaps the first initiative to reform the country’s insurance sector.
The year 2021 has been challenging for Vietnam, leaving it with GDP in negative territory. We spoke to two life insurers to get a view of how the country is coping.
We asked the winners of this year’s Asia Insurance Industry Awards what wining their award would mean for them. Read what they said.
At this year’s SIRC, (re)insurers were done talking about the pandemic, and instead looked towards the risks that are more imminent – climate change and sustainability.
Rare diseases are a global health scourge and need a coordinated effort on medical, economic and social fronts. How can insurers contribute?
From sustainability to climate change to future pandemics to cyber, PARIMA’s Resilience Week V2.1 attempted to address these issues and give its members a helping hand.
Cyber attacks have affected markets around the world and the tightening of the cyber insurance market is among the most important second-order effects of this threat environment.
The pandemic and subsequent disruptions have led to increased activity in the insurance M&A space and will have a major impact in the Asian region.
Blockchain and other technologies could revolutionise data handling and sustainable finance. At the Singapore Fintech Festival 2021, industry leaders discussed what this means for insurance.
Thailand’s Office of Insurance Commission held its annual Thailand InsurTech Festival in October, calling on experts from all across the globe to share their views on the growth of InsurTech within the region.
Gross premiums written in many Asian insurance markets declined in 2020 due to COVID-19, while the degree of impact varies by market, an analysis by European global consulting firm Roland Berger shows.
Asia-Pacific reinsurers will increasingly price their insured risk on scenarios that have limited history: whether that be policies covering various catastrophe perils or landscape evolution following rapid urbanisation, says S&P Global Ratings...
The digital P&C personal lines market could reach a cumulative $7.5bn in premiums over the next five years in South and Southeast Asia, according to research by Swiss Re Institute.