When the stopgap becomes the strategy
Singapore
The APAC insurance market according to Verisk: a diverse region on the move
Building on government initiatives to advance sustainable healthcare
Compounding factors shift insurer focus to healthspan
Navigating claims profitably, and climate risk sustainably
Regulatory reforms shape MDW insurance
HDI Global bets on specialist depth as Singapore's role as a regional risk hub evolves
Robust economic indicators driving insurance industry growth in 2026
From capacity to capability: The value of strategic retakaful and reinsurance partnerships
Indian insurance is now looking beyond growth to resilience
Structured reinsurance offers a way through a softer market
The state of retakaful and the road ahead
Asia's wealth will continue to drive demand for HNW solutions
Combining speed and discipline
India emerges as APAC L&H reinsurance hotspot
APAC reinsurers face further pricing pressure in 2027
Reinsurer eyes APAC expansion anchored in strategic partnerships
The first Lloyd's syndicate dedicated to the Indian market
India offers huge opportunities for foreign reinsurers
Indian cedants today have an array of options for their reinsurance needs
General
Keeping Asia insurable as catastrophe risks mount
Insuring Asia's infrastructure boom
In the new age of data assets, flexibility is king
Sustainability and climate resilience must be embedded into modern business strategy
Australia: Cyber-attacks continue to evolve; can the insurers keep pace?
Changing nature of risks rewrites claims settlement process
MGAs help close Asia-Pacific's specialty insurance gap
Malaysia motor insurers face claims inflation as EV adoption accelerates
Data centre expansion is creating concentrated risks
EAIC 2026: Asia's insurers move from diagnosing the gap to delivering cover
Tokyo's flood defence: a city engineered to stay dry
Life & health
Successfully navigating the redefined modern Asian legacy
Financial institutions urged to strengthen oversight of premium-financed life policies
When vehicles start talking, insurance must listen
Brokers are concerned about regulator's proposed reforms on commissions
China's Insurance regulator and three major rebuilding exercises in twenty-five years
AI transformation drives human revolution
Sometimes, the most consequential risk is the connection between risks
Asian
Australia: Stronger homes are required for better resilience as climate change aggravates
Malaysia: Life insurers welcome government's plan to subsidise the first-year health insurance premium for eligible employees at SMEs
New Zealand: Around 10,000 homes could become hard to insure by 2035
Singapore: Health and wealth to drive growth for life insurers
Products and Alliances
People on the move
INSURANCE - General
MARKET PROFILE - Singapore
Private insurers have a role to play in the proactive health space through education and advocacy for preventative care and early intervention.
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REINSURANCE
Abundant traditional and alternative capital is expected to intensify competition across Asia-Pacific’s reinsurance market, putting pressure on underwriting margins and profitability
Singapore plays a role as the gateway to a digitising APAC, where an appetite for better data, cleaner workflows and more connected trading is reshaping how the market operates.
As financing needs grow across emerging markets, reinsurance is being asked to do more than supply capacity. Retakaful and reinsurance partnerships can strengthen underwriting, data and portfolio management.
As India becomes a major manufacturing, technology and infrastructure hub, the risks it faces are growing more complex and interconnected.
The takaful market is bigger and better regulated than a decade ago, yet retakaful providers still face questions of scale, business quality and competition from conventional reinsurers.
VIG Re’s geographic expansion will not compromise its core underwriting principles risk philosophy.
Asia faces a disproportionate amount of NatCAT events each year, and insurers must approach this challenge from different angles.
Singapore’s Pollutant Standards Index reached 288 in the central region on 14 October, the highest reading of the year. The response has followed a familiar playbook. Fortuitously, N95 masks were made available to vulnerable residents on the...
An ageing population, soaring medical costs and prevalence of chronic disease are threatening the future sustainability of health insurance in Singapore.
Amid abundant capacity and pricing pressure, insurers are turning to structured reinsurance to manage capital requirements, limit earnings volatility and transfer legacy liabilities.
Grid expansion, data centres and coastal land reclamation are the next test for engineering insurers, but skills, data and models needed to underwrite them are insufficient.
With the many emerging risks and challenges data centres face, as operators rush to develop campuses in order to meet demand, flexibility may be the new asset in the segment.
India’s new Indian Automotive Industry Standard will fundamentally reshape the entire economics of motor insurance portfolio including liability and underwriting.
With the release of the regulator’s latest consultation paper on insurance distribution, brokers mull over several major issues including distributor remuneration and insurers’ expenses.
China has reshaped insurance supervision three times since 1998, and each change has reflected a different view of what insurance is for.
As AI continues being implemented in the workplace, strong leadership is needed in the insurance industry.
Disruption that operates outside traditional risk registers can set off a chain of interconnected consequences across areas such as supply chains, cyber security and finance.
Strengthening national leadership on housing delivery, land use planning and improving the resilience of existing housing stock at the point of repair, renovation or replacement have been identified as key practical priorities to protect Australians...
The Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM) has welcomed the government’s plan to subsidise the first-year MediAsas premium by MYR200 ($49) per employee at eligible small and medium-sized enterprises (SME).
Around 10,000 homes in four major cities of New Zealand could become difficult to insure in another decade ahead and this could make them ineligible for any mortgage or lending facilities, according to a new report released by New Zealand’s...