Life & health
Prudential to accelerate growth in Asia
Execution trumps ideas
General
A simpler world of insurance
Implications of China's maritime silk road initiative for Singapore
Trade credit insurance: Loosening days sales outstanding
Specialisation in an evolving market
Thailand
Thai takeaway: Chinese entrée
Scope for reinsurers to help improve penetration
Embracing digital regulation
InsurTech update: Breathing new life into the industry
Life prospects: Old is gold
RBC
Hong Kong risk-based capital for insurers
Climate change
There's more to be done
Modelling Indian crop insurance
A new paradigm in CAT Modelling for Indian crops
News
International Maritime Organization adopts climate change strategy for shipping
Risk management not keeping pace with tech advances - Marsh/RIMS
Navigating IFRS17
Marketing insurance in the digital age
How blockchain could revolutionise the insurance industry
New era of partnership needed with auto(nomous) industry
InsurTech hype gives way to reality
China
China reins in its insurance sector - so what's next?
Belt and Road Initiative challenges the insurance profession
EAIC
Discovering what disruption means
View from India
India holds great potential for travel insurers
Asian
11 winners from seven markets at 3rd Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards
Asia health protection gap 10 times larger than forecast
Asia Employee Benefits & Insurance Conference in July (3-4 Jul 2018, Mandarin Orchard Hotel, Singapore)
Asia: Actuarial Partners accredited under the Quality Assurance Scheme
Australia: Superannuation changes could save young workers US$377+ per year
Bangladesh: Government urged to promote farm insurance
China: Regulator promises severe penalties for those who violate financial sector regulations
Hong Kong: HSBC Insurance expands beneficiary definitions to same-sex couples
India: Call for better crop data to attract reinsurers
Indonesia: Protection life sales predicted to be flat this year
Japan: Insurers consider backing off from loans and investments to coal sector
Malaysia: Online system allows bosses to buy worker insurance easily
Myanmar: Insurance demand to increase with growing banking network
New Zealand: Blockchain solution being developed for insurers
Singapore: Life sector kicks off with strong 1Q uptake of annual premium products
South Korea: Life insurers increasingly focused on capital adequacy
Thailand: Regulator to set up platform to develop InsurTech
Vietnam: Farmers to get premium subsidy for agriculture cover
Global
Lloyd's underwriters told to stop insurance linked to NRA
Study says insurance industry dangerously unprepared for extreme weather
Product Bites
People on the move
TECHNOLOGY
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INSURANCE - Life & health
Asia Insurance Review speaks to Prudential Corporation Asia chief executiveNic Nicandrou on his plans to take the business forward after the landmark announcement earlier this year to split up the 170-year old British insurer.
COUNTRY PROFILE - Thailand
The future is bright for insurers servicing Southeast Asia’s largest ageing population and their young.
INSURANCE - General
Dr Shen Yiming of Marsh outlines the implications for Singapore, as one of the most important shipping hubs in the region.
Marc Livinec and Mahamoud Islam from Euler Hermes take a close look at the return of growth and trust and how they distract attention from days sales outstanding.
RISK - RBC
The Insurance Authority in Hong Kong is developing a capital framework for a new risk-based capital regime for Hong Kong. EY Asia-Pacific insurance leader Jonathan Zhao discusses the implications.
It seems clear that there are many applications for the use of blockchain technologies in the insurance sector. Mr Faisal Siddiqi of DXC Technology outlines some of the potential benefits - and looks at what the future might hold in store.
MARKET SPOTLIGHT - China
As more details emerge about the Belt and Road Initiative it has quickly garnered interest and become one of the most exciting global trade developments of recent times.
It is June. The royal wedding is over. Summer is in ‘full steam ahead’ mode, as is the state of global uncertainty with geopolitics and terrorism – made worse by the increasing number and pace of cyber attacks and threats.
The ability to prioritise and provide the right culture to bring good ideas to fruition is what separates winners from the competition, according to Muang Thai Life Assurance president and CEO Sara Lamsam.
Asia Insurance Review speaks with Digit Insurance appointed actuary Adarsh Agarwal on its mission to create a new experience for neo consumers – a simpler world of insurance.
Speciality reinsurance broking in Asia could still be a growth area for global specialists. RKH Specialty CEO Asia Pacific Stuart Beatty outlines some of the opportunities as well as the impediments to growth.
Before long the street markets of Asia will have vendors selling tee shirts printed with one of the Belt and Road Initiative graphics that have graced every newspaper and magazine in the region since they were first photoshopped. But what does BRI...
Asia Insurance Review talks with Swiss Re’s Phuong Hanh Nguyen and Winnie Ching for their views on reinsurance prospects within the non-life and life segments.
Thailand’s Office of Insurance Commission secretary general, Dr Suthiphon Thaveechaiyagarn, throws some light on what the regulator has already achieved and what the office has in store in the digital realm.
A look at how the insurance industry is responding to the growing spectre of climate change as it brings in more devastating natural catastrophes.
JBA Risk Management’s Iain Willis explains how modellers can overcome the challenge of developing probabilistic solutions for Indian crops.
From their experience in completing IFRS17 projects for various clients, representatives from Cognizant, Deloitte and Aptitude Software give us their roadmap to successfully navigate this new set of regulations.
Disruptions may come and disruptions may go but someone still has to market insurance products and promote the brand. Welcome to the hard-boiled world of marketing, advertising, promotion and corporate communications in the untamed digital frontier...
Self-driving cars will soon be coming to your neighbourhood. Thorsten Liebert from ERGO Mobility So-lutions takes an in-depth look at the impact on the business cases of both carmakers and the insurance industry.
China’s financial services sector is in the midst of its biggest shake-up in decades as the government attempts to tighten oversight of the financial system in the world’s second largest economy.
The 29th EAIC returned to Manila for the fourth time with over 700 delegates gathering to discuss the imminent threat of disruption and to grapple with the ever-present problem of change.
India offers great potential for travel insurers. As India emerges as a net exporter of tourists, the business of insuring them is set to grow substantially and this could be a significant growth business.
Eleven winners were honoured at the 3rd Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards presentation ceremony dinner held in Manila on 7 May with the Philippines’ insurance commissioner Dennis Funa as guest of honour.
Delegates at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Conference 2018 in Bangkok were treated to a sneak peek at Swiss Re’s soon-to-be-published health protection gap in Asia study. The forthcoming study, due to be published in July, will show...
In the sharing economy with the empowered connected employee, the fight for talent is critical for success. Employee benefits is a game-changer in making companies become employers of choice. And many global MNCs have admitted that runaway employee...