Environmental Insurance in Asia: Regulatory and public scrutiny will drive take up rates
Engineering first
Helping clients to grow in profitable areas
Creating an ecosystem of engagement
Modelling more man-made risk
China's Belt & Road Initiative: Opportunities and risks for ASEAN
East Asia Insurance Day marks its 11th year
The Future of Consumer Insurance: Diverse, embedded and driven by global data platforms
The incumbent vs the disruptor: How much has changed?
Marine Cargo
Disruptive digital - It's a bane but oh what a great boon too
Cargo still sailing on rough seas - but land ahoy!
Standard Club: A P&I perspective
Higher risk exposure in large container ships
Indonesia
Growth is still the buzzword
A Parade of Indonesia Rendezvous
World of Personal Lines
Making insurance more ubiquitous
Insurance in the time of disruption
Ageing Feature
Robotics and eldercare's future
Insurance in the low yield world
South Asia: Insurers coping with the low yield challenge
Legal Roundtable
The legal clutch of cyber
Think Tank
Genetics and Life Insurance: A view into the microscope of regulations
View from India
Indian Insurers: IPOs and beyond
Investment
Allocating Overseas: What Asia insurers can learn from insurers in developed markets
M&A Focus
Scaling new heights: M&A integration in insurance
Agriculture Focus
Index-based agri solutions can boost insurance penetration in Asia
SME Insurance
SMEs still mostly an emerging business for insurers
Talent Development
Millennials: Get them on board
IT in Insurance
It's time to join the cyber security conversation
Disrupting the CIO
Asian
Asia: Typhoon Talim strikes Japan
Asia: Website hues colour consumer trust in online insurance
Labuan IBFC as Asia's leading captive domicile
Asia: More than 750 delegates have registered for SIRC
Asia: "Insuring an auspicious start to the winning side of 2018"
Asia: Marine Insurance - 2016 is hardest year since financial crisis
Australia: New approaches needed with changing claim trends
China: Regulator steps up risk control measures
Finalists of Hong Kong Insurance Awards 2017
Indonesia: Motor premiums rise in 1H despite slow market
Japan: Insurers turn to disability income protection for profits
South Korea: Reimbursement medical insurance premiums to be reduced
Malaysia: Financial adviser numbers surge
Nepal: Mandatory health insurance to cover 500,000 more people in first year
New Zealand: Insurers battle "white lies" in claims
Pakistan: Too few life insurers cited as reason for low penetration rate
Philippines: Regulator urges insurers to offer terrorism cover
Singapore: Old-timer OAC adopts Great Eastern name
Singapore: Call made for bond default insurance
Sri Lanka: Reinsurance cushions insurers from weather losses
Taiwan: Japan risk exposure tallied in wake of N Korean missile test
Thailand: Number of retirees to accelerate over next 2 decades
Vietnam: Premiums surge by 22% in first 8 months
Global
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma highlight global protection gap
World's first marine insurance blockchain platform launched
Update from Monte Carlo
Showtime for reinsurance
Corporate Risk Management
ASEAN disaster management centre to widen its role
Australia: With the world at tipping point, risk managers hold sway
Product Bytes
FAIR 25th Conference: Curtain raiser
It's FAIR time again!
Australian Insurance Industry Awards
Diary of Events
People on the move
First Malaysian InsurTech Collab Takes Off
Online insurer courts pharmacy network in strategic partnership
COUNTRY PROFILE - Indonesia
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COVER STORY - Marine Cargo
Digital technology, cyber threats, and Internet of Things are all in the forefront of the changing marine cargo scene which now boasts its own blockchain platform too. We drill deeper into the period of upheavals with 2018 seen as bringing greater...
INSIGHTS - Legal Roundtable
With the 2017 Asia Pacific Insurance Conference (APIC) being held later this month in Singapore, we bring you AIR’s first ever legal roundtable where we look at insurance from the eyes of the legal eagles.
AEC FOCUS
The Belt & Road (B&R) Initiative will provide a boost for international trade and also for insurance. Dr Shen Yiming of Marsh explores.
LIFE & HEALTH - Ageing Feature
In this second of a four-part series on ageing in Asia, Mr Greg Goodfliesh of RGAx Asia explores the growing impact of robotics.
INSIGHTS - Think Tank
The use of genetic information for life, disability, critical illness and long-term care insurance is likely to increase in relevance, says Mr Ronald Klein of The Geneva Association.
INSIGHTS - IT in Insurance
Highly sophisticated cyber criminals are posing an increasing and significant threat to businesses. Mr Chris Moyer of DXC Technology discusses the steps insurers can take to manage these risks.
This is a bumper issue. October is a hectic month for the industry, not just in Asia but around the world too. There is just too much happening and insurance is involved in every sector of the economy. And then there is the rising October renewals...
With growing environmental consciousness worldwide, companies need to face up to the potential pollution impacts of their business activities on their surroundings and protect themselves from potential liabilities. We spoke with Mr Arthur Lu,...
Commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global’s approach to business is different, says Mr David Johnson, newly-appointed Vice President, Regional Manager, Asia. Not only is it a mutual company for close to two centuries, in business,...
In the digital world, many intermediaries face a bleak future and so they would have to reinvent themselves. While reinsurance brokers have a professional and important role to play in the industry, they are not immune to the changes around them. We...
Mr Hugh Terry of The Digital Insurer urges insurers to create ecosystems of the future with consumer insurance being diverse, embedded and driven by global data platforms.
Has the entrance of InsurTech startups in Singapore changed significantly the way insurance is transacted? PolicyPal’s Ms Val Yap and lnfinity Wealth Management’s Mr Poh Choon Kia share their views.
A year ago, the container shipping industry was in the doldrums with oversupply of capacity and lay-up of 7% of the global fleet in capacity terms. Predictions were that the market would only fully recover in 2018. One year on, we speak to some...
We speak with Mr Akshat Arora, Senior Surveyor at the Loss Prevention division of the Standard Club in Singapore, for a P&I club perspective.
Indonesia is ripe with the potential to become a major insurance market with its huge population and buzzing economy. The industry and regulator are working hand-in-hand to boost the potential including through insurance awareness of the public and...
For 23 years now the Indonesia Rendezvous has been held as an annual affair come rain or shine except when Bali also hosted EAIC in 2012. This year, the Rendezvous plans to look at fraud management as a priority. We bring you a quick tour of the...
Mr David A. Chan from Willis Towers Watson says we live in an inimitable age and this can help make insurance a more ubiquitous part of our daily lives.
Mr Abhishek Bhatia of FWD Singapore says our industry is on the edge of itself where evolving technology and changing consumer behaviour is reshaping how we do business.
With most South Asian markets faced with low yield returns and sputtering economic growth, we speak to a few life industry experts to understand the roadmap ahead across the region.
With as many as six (re)insurers lined up with IPOs amounting to around US$7.8 billion, the journey ahead for the Indian insurance industry will be quite exciting.
Another major typhoon hit northern Asia last month. Typhoon Talim made landfall in Kagoshima Prefecture on the southern tip of Kyushu Island, Japan, on 17 Sept with maximum sustained winds at 111 km/h (79 mph)—the equivalent of a weak Category...
Colours, shapes and sounds can directly influence trust in online insurance and banking services, in particular colour hue and symmetry, according to a study on how visual aesthetics and sound influence consumer trust in relation to online financial...
A recent survey commissioned by the Labuan International Business and Financial Centre (Labuan IBFC) showed that the risk management and insurance community are confident that the mid-shore centre has the right ingredients for businesses to...
KATSANA is on a roll, recently inking MoU with several insurers including Allianz Malaysia, Axiata Business Services and both Etiqa Insurance and Etiqa Takaful, to collaborate on boosting the adoption of usage-based insurance (UBI) in Malaysia....
While tackling the protection gap must progress with today’s digital trends, U for Life General Manager Kenny Thing says insurers must not overlook conventional touchpoints as well.