From Editor-in-chief
Prudential: "Doing well by doing good"
FM Global: The anti-ageing product
Towers Watson: Opportunities abound with data
IIS marks 50 years of leadership
The rise of Asian regional players: Time to dream big
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos - Ongoing opportunities still in sight
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos - Promising potential
Cambodia and Laos: Does it make sense to enter now?
Growing middle-class in Vietnam creates new opportunities for non-life insurers
Vietnam's Pension Market: Starting from scratch
Significant "pre-agreed flexibilities"
Spreading the load: The past, present and future of catastrophe bonds
Political Risk Insurance vs Bilateral Investment Treaties
Risk managers: Risk management needs to be a boardroom issue
Expatriates: Expats in Hong Kong: A growing opportunity
Bring on tomorrow: A balanced diet for your balance sheet
India's life industry: Staying alive despite the odds
Agriculture insurance: The drivers of agriculture insurance in Asia
Agriculture insurance: China: Leading the agricultural insurance market
Agriculture insurance: India: The El Nino threat
IRFRC: Towards a comprehensive mortality database for Asia-Pacific
Forecasting earthquakes: Time varying earthquake hazard
NAT CATS focus: Emerging countries affected by insurance gaps
NAT CATS focus: Financing solutions to Nat CATs in Asia
Bancassurance: An oasis of opportunities
Back page - Ms Khadijah Abdullah: Industry losing a dedicated ASEAN leader
Claims and innovations in Australia: The phoenix rises
Emerging risks need reinsurers' expertise
2nd SAARC insurance regulators conference: Regional cooperation mooted
Asia: Japanese firms focussing more on ASEAN than China
Asia: Device to mitigate electronic losses
Asia: Peak Re signs agreement with MacquarRe to access ANZ markets
China: Study says China's regulators can do more to encourage overseas forays
India: New government likely to push FDI hike in insurance
India: GIC Re in talks for a nuclear insurance pool
India: ING Vysya Life is now Exide Life
Indonesia: Highly exposed Jakarta has US$10 bln protection gap
Indonesia: Fairfax acquires 80% of Batavia Miratama Insurance
FWD Life Insurance enters the Philippines
Malaysia: AmBank Group and MetLife forge partnership
Singapore: Contract certainty deadline by December 2014
Gard opens new office in Singapore
Singapore is 2nd largest market for credit and political risk insurance in the world
Singapore: Cyber-protector indemnity policy for individuals
Thailand: Removal of Premier is credit negative - S&P
Seminar on risk mitigation and management via catastrophe modelling
Decision on systematically important reinsurers postponed to November
ING prepares for listing in Amsterdam
Q-Re renamed as Qatar Re
AIG's CEO search narrows to two internal candidates
Legislative oversight a concern - RIMS
Diary of events
People on the move
COVER STORY
Asian insurers and reinsurers have certainly come a long way and it is time to dream big. One even plans to be in the top three global ranking by 2050. As these industry leaders start to flex their muscles, read about the factors in their favour and their plans to boost their business pie and stature in the market including through intra-Asian cooperation.
COUNTRY PROFILE
Though these emerging markets are still not drawing the expected FDIs, they still hold promising potential given the low market penetration. The lack of standardised regulations, improper pricing strategy, claims handling and unqualified agents pose...
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SPOTLIGHT
Risk managers at the roundtable organised by Asia Insurance Review in Hong Kong look at the critical issues and challenges facing them today from loss prevention, coping with reputational fall-outs, managing enterprise risks, applying risk...
In a special interview, Mr Barry Stowe, Chief Executive, Prudential Corporation Asia, talks about their Asian strategy, his view of the ASEAN Economic Community and shares that he is proud to be "doing well by doing good".
Mr Stefano Tranquillo, Division Manager, Asia Pacific, Factory Mutual Insurance Company, shares why insurance is an anti-ageing product, and the differences and similarities he sees across regions when it comes to risk management and mitigation. By...
Pricing deregulation is expected to take place in a number of Asian markets like Malaysia, China, India and Vietnam. Insurers in the region are keen to tap into this development to achieve sustainable profit with many eager to use tools like...
As the international world of insurance meets in London this month for the International Insurance Society's (IIS) 50th Seminar, we recap some of the issues of the day which had dominated IIS discussions in recent years. By Ridwan Abbas
Asian insurers and reinsurers have certainly come a long way and it is time to dream big. One even plans to be in the top three global ranking by 2050. As these industry leaders start to flex their muscles, read about the factors in their favour and...
The insurance markets of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are showing promising potential. Mr Saman Wijaya Bandara of EY Vietnam gives a succinct insight into each country's industry, looking at players in the market, products, regulatory development and...
Cambodia's and Laos' insurance markets are much smaller than neighbouring Vietnam's. Messrs Ben McDermott and Alan Merten of Towers Watson explore the situations in both markets and say that realism, patience and an ability to run efficient low-cost...
In this extract taken from The Geneva Association's newsletter, Mr William Dubinsky from Willis Capital Markets & Advisory looks at the origin of CAT bonds, its usage today and mulls over its future.
Bilateral Investment Treaties and Political Risk Insurance covers are both risk mitigation tools for foreign investors. Mr Ian Roberts and Ms Vanessa Kilner of Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore point out the crucial differences between them.
Mr Jonathan Connelly from Cigna Global Health Options explores the insurance needs of the Hong Kong expats who have the highest percentage of population figure in the world.
Consumers are getting particular about where their food comes from. Ms Penny Seach and Ms Sheri Wilbanks of AIG say this affects agricultural producers including the supply chains, increasing the effort required by them to certify the nature of...
The Indian life insurance industry is facing challenges in recent times with slower economic growth and frequent regulatory changes. Two CEOs assure that the long-term opportunity is still good for the country.
Mr Peter Book from Guy Carpenter & Co looks at the drivers of agriculture (supply side constraints and demand side drivers) and the importance of risk transfer in food production.
In the next 20 years, China will become the world's largest agricultural insurance market. Mr Stephen Warwick of Aon Benfield says robust risk management is the key to China cementing its position as the agricultural insurance leader.
Australia's life insurance industry, which has been suffering since 2011, is now rising from its ashes, led by claims management innovation, says Mr André Dreyer from RGA Reinsurance Co of Australia Ltd.
Life reinsurers are needed for their technical expertise in many areas. In Asia, these include longevity insurance, long-term care insurance, capital management solutions amongst others, says Mr Paolo De Martin from SCOR Global Life.
The 2nd SAARC Insurance Regulators' Meet & International Conference held in Karachi in April highlighted the need for effective collaboration amongst the insurance regulators and the industry from the region.
Japanese firms are focussing more on ASEAN countries and moving away from China which had traditionally been the companies' key investment target as the Middle Kingdom appears to be undergoing a relative decline due to factors such as soaring...
Stasis, a provider of scientific and technological products for the disaster recovery and insurance industries, has launched an electronic loss mitigation device to protect equipment from corrosion and help insurers save billions of dollars.
Peak Reinsurance Co Ltd, a Hong Kong-based reinsurer has signed a cooperation agreement with MacquarRe, a Sydney-based reinsurance consultancy.
The "Risk Mitigation and Management via Catastrophe Modelling" seminar which recently concluded in Bangkok, Thailand was jointly hosted by Thai Reinsurance and catastrophe modelling firm Catalytics.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has pushed the date for the announcement of the list of reinsurers which would be designated as globally systemically important (G-SIIs) from July 2014 to November 2014.
ING is set to list its Europe and Japanese insurance arms in what is expected to be one of Europe's biggest floatations of the year.
The former Q-Re LLC has changed its legal name to Qatar Reinsurance Company LLC. Going forward Qatar Reinsurance Company LLC will trade as Qatar Re.