Life & health
The future of sales force training
Distribution through partnerships
Government push ignites health insurance in South Asia
Prepared for a digital future
India: Agents still a critical component
General
Microinsurance and hyper-personalisation
Could some Asian cities end up underwater soon?
The secrets of reinsurers' marketing strategies
Managing disaster
Taiwan
Regulator looks for insurance growth in Taiwan
An overgrown market
Growth and development of the life insurance market
A top destination for AI and tech
Green investing more than a fad
Rogue employees - the insider threat
Data and understanding are important to model application
Non-communicable diseases: When death isn't catching
China Life: The transformation of China's traditional life insurance industry
News
Insurers given big tax break with higher deduction ceiling
Small insurers' anaemic development attributed to reinsurers' capacity
Foreign non-life ventures maintain 1.7% market share
IUMI holds event in China for first time
Challenges with AI in a digital society
The biggest issues facing insurance CFOs in 2019
New technologies, new risks
Keeping up with Asia
Think Tank
Underinsurance in mature economies - reasons and remedies
Financing micro health insurance
Infographics: Insights from the industry
Product Bites
Asian
Asia: Region's insurance markets to rebound this year from a slow 2018
Bangladesh: Government urged to support crop insurance
Hong Kong: Insurance market grows at robust pace in Q1
India: Insurance CXOs voice their concerns and priorities
Indonesia: 94 conventional insurers still operate takaful windows
Japan: April renewals keep reinsurers' hopes up
New Zealand: More than one in three Kiwis cannot afford insurance
Pakistan: Financial regulator recommends mandatory health insurance
Singapore: SEADRIF to be established in Lion City later this year
South Korea: Regulator to audit risk management systems of financial units of chaebol
Sri Lanka: State-owned reinsurer extends accident cover in terrorism fund
Taiwan: Life insurers keen on sukuk investment
Thailand: Government updates insurance laws
Global
Commercial insurance pricing increases in first quarter of 2019
Lemonade announces IPO
Risk
Sea level increase by 2100 may be double the present estimate
Swiss Re's latest report examines emerging public health risks
People on the move
INSURANCE - Life & health
REINSURANCE
When it comes to seeking reinsurance solutions, insurers have a trove of options to choose from. Coupled with high catastrophe losses over the last few years, reinsurers have relied on intelligent marketing strategies to stay ahead of the game.
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TECHNOLOGY
The advent of AI has created opportunities for industries to reinvent themselves, but they also throw up a host of unprecedented challenges.
BROKING
Evaluation of risk through catastrophe models has improved significantly since the early 1980s. Models have become a critical tool, and have no doubt prevented many re/insurers from tipping into insolvency.
NOTEBOOK - Think Tank
This article proposes five factors which underlie underinsurance – behaviour and perceptions, economics, institutions, socio-demographics and culture.The Geneva Association’s Dr Kai-Uwe Schanz offers deep insights.
The IIS came to town with a trail of some 85 speakers for the Global Insurance Forum (GIF). What a fest it was with such a plethora of grand ideas strewn all over, exhorting the insurance fraternity to just get in sync with the new digital world. No...
Disruptions in learning and development are challenging the way we will train salesforces in the future. LIMRA Talent Solutions International’s Nick Wilson says that help is at hand.
Aegon Asia CEO Andrew Byrne is candid about the insurer’s aspirations for the region and the strategy that it is using to achieve customer reach through partnering with established digital platforms.
Health insurance is gaining momentum in the South Asian markets of India and Bangladesh, with high value government schemes and the presence of several standalone health insurers in the region.
With the increased frequency and severity of natural catastrophes in the region, the insurance industry in Asia has seen a significant amount of losses. Nat Re’s Allan Rossi Santos talks risk portfolios.
With a population of 23.6m people, Taiwan has had a stable insurance market for many years with insurance industry assets of $860bn accounting for one-third of total assets of financial institutions on the island. But there’s still room for...
Taiwan’s chief financial regulator is asking people to be more circumspect when it comes to using life insurance as a financial tool and to ensure that what they purchase actually fits their needs.
Cathay Financial Holdings gives an insider’s perspective on what is interesting and unexpected in this vibrant area of business.
Insurance companies are facing numerous challenges, not only in the underwriting side of the business, but also in the investment sphere.
The greatest threat to your company and network is not the hackers and crackers on the outside trying to get in but your own employees who want to cause mischief or who inadvertently cause damage from within.
Non-communicable diseases do not make headlines like infectious epidemics but they are responsible for over 70% of deaths every year globally. China has the ‘dubious’ distinction of being the global leader in non-communicable diseases.
China Life has been a Fortune Global 500 company for 16 consecutive years, rising from 290th place in 2003 to 42nd in 2018. We offer a peek under the hood.
Insurance companies will be able to get a higher tax deduction on the commission expenses and fees incurred in their operations, according to a statement released by the taxation department of the Ministry of Finance.
Shifting regulatory paradigms, evolving consumer expectations and new technologies have broadened the role of the CFO significantly, especially in the insurance industry in Asia.
Many experts now encourage becoming resilient instead of trying to achieve the impossible status of ‘hack-proof’, but what does resilience actually mean?
Industry leaders from all over the world gathered at the 55th Global Insurance Forum (GIF) to discuss the most pressing issues facing insurance today.Asia Insurance Review brings you some of the highlights.
Asia’s insurance markets (ex Japan) are expected to rebound this year, with premium growth forecast at almost 11%, according to Allianz Research.
Crop insurance would take off in Bangladesh if the government was to lend support, and awareness among farmers was raised, experts have said.
The Hong Kong insurance industry grew by 12.3% in the first quarter of 2019, with total gross premiums reaching HK$148.8bn ($19bn) over the corresponding period in 2018, according to statistics released by the Insurance Authority at the end of May....