General
Australia's dysfunctional disability income insurance market
Insurance transcending borders
Whither Indian insurance brokers?
It is time to go unconventional
Motor insurance faces its greatest test
Will bancassurance have a place in the post-COVID-19 world?
Parametric insurance to re-energise Asia
Life & health
Building a future-proof digital transformation plan
Opportunity to scale-up
Diversity and inclusion matter more during pandemic
Maintaining strong D&I focus during a crisis
China
Short-term stress is a motivator in the long run
Positive year for evolving reinsurance market
Opening the market, tightening regulation
The road less travelled for foreign insurers
Shaping the future of insurance
APAC insurance regulators' response during coronavirus crisis
The fractal shock of pandemics and other tales
Preparing for pandemics, climate change and cyber
Uncertainty driving change
ILS remains a secure risk-transfer tool
Asia will continue to be the growth engine of reinsurance
Reinsurers approach January renewals on the defensive
Lessons to be learnt from the pandemic
No risks are uninsurable
ReCovering from COVID-19
Reinsurers must become more proactive
Smaller reinsurers in South Asia: Opportunities and threats
Top of the world
Cyber attacks drive action on risk in Asia Pacific
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - Cyber risks and insurance
Time for China's motor insurers to shift gears
Risk: Floods can swamp China
Business transformation: Science fact not science fiction
Good news/bad news: Hiring in a pandemic
The evolution of InsurTechs
Infographics
Asian
Australia: Young people cancel health insurance despite pandemic
China: Growth of overall insurance business slows significantly
Hong Kong: Total premiums rise by 10% to $73bn in 2019
India: COVID-specific policies can be renewed until 31 March
Indonesia: Willis Re launches new flood model to quantify flood risk
Philippines: More take up microinsurance cover
Singapore: Government plans to enhance compulsory universal health insurance
Risk
Cities at risk from global threats
Pandemics, climate and cyber top risk list
Product Bites
People on the move
COUNTRY PROFILE - China
REINSURANCE
SCOR’s Mr Denis Kessler has a well-deserved reputation as a doyen of the reinsurance industry – with a knack of providing unique insights into the manifold big issues facing the sector.
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INSURANCE - General
Australia’s retail disability income insurance market has been a thorn in the side of the insurance sector for many years now – racking up multi-billion dollar losses and adding a sense of the absurd to an otherwise professional sector.
INSURANCE - Life & health
Experts from Underwrite Me talkabout how technology can help insurers make the leap into a data-driven future.
REGULATION
Capitalisation, earnings and liquidity positions of some insurers could come under pressure from the financial-market disruption and economic strain caused by the pandemic.
The changing nature of risk amplifies uncertainty, prompting adaptation in reinsurers’ approaches to managing risk.
RISK
Recent cyber attacks in New Zealand have demonstrated that all countries, regardless of size, face cyber risk.
RISK - Think Tank
Cyber risk is one of the most pertinent global threats facing the world today. With firms’ and individuals’ reliance on technology only set to increase, the frequency and severity of cyber incidents is likely to rise in turn.
Time flies, faster perhaps in the pandemic, although most of us are still working from home.
We spoke to Chubb Japan’s new regional president and CEO Diego Sosa to get his thoughts on entering a new region.
The recently-elected president of the Insurance Brokers Association of India talks about his plans for the Indian insurance broking sector.
On the occasion of the virtual Dive In festival, we look at the importance of strengthening diversity and inclusion.
Inclusion of employees was the focus of this year’s virtual Dive In festival since mental wellbeing issues among employees cropped up significantly due to the coronavirus pandemic.
China’s general insurance market must be one of the most-watched anywhere in the world – because of the rate of growth it has demonstrated over recent years as well as its burgeoning scale.
The reinsurance market in China has been hardening, but leading terms remain competitive, according to analysts.
There are positive signs for foreign insurers looking to get in on the action as the CBIRC eases restrictions on foreign insurance entities.
For pandemics and climate change, solutions are harder to identify and will require a herculean effort by the private and public sectors combined to prepare, anticipate and mitigate their potential impact.
China’s motor insurance sector has been hit by a comprehensive reform, which took effect in September.
Heavy rainfall and consequential floods affected large parts of China in 2020. The situation calls for immediate steps with unprecedented urgency.
The internet of things presents future-gazers with the perfect screen onto which they can project what might be. The IoT Insurance Observatory is there to map the future for insurance in a connected world.
The pandemic has resulted in millions of job losses and prompted some countries to change regulations around foreign workers to keep as many locals employed as possible.
The FinTech associations of Hong Kong and Singapore launched InsurTech maps for their respective markets.
Over 29,000 Australians cancelled their private health insurance from March to June 2020 since the pandemic started, according to information released by the federal government.
The insurance industry in China generated premiums totalling CNY3.32tn ($48.9bn) in the first eight months of the year. This represented a year-on-year increase of 7.15%, but the industry’s growth was 5.88 percentage points lower compared to...
The Hong Kong insurance industry reported total gross premiums of HK$566.9bn ($73.2bn) in 2019, marking year-on-year growth of 10.2%.