Chris Ma: The future of insurance - customer centricity
AGCS: High operational efficiency for a flat cost ratio
Mr K Sanath Kumar: India's insurance man for all seasons
Ms Farzana Chowdhury: A CEO and also a local Sustainable Development Goal pioneer
Malaysian Re gets retakaful business back on track
Digital: It takes a village
Asia Insurance Industry Awards - All set for Victory!
Strategising to cope with the uncertainties
Reinsurance - A global Asia: Local reinsurers setting their sights on a wider world
China
Still soaring
China takes flight
2016 China market overview
The innovation army
Reforming Myanmar's insurance sector
Cyber insurance: Good growth but gaps in coverage still exist
Understanding Japan typhoon flood risk
Agriculture: Factors for sustainable schemes
Direct channel global customer insights
Wearable technology in insurance: An Asian perspective
Life Insurance Disruption: Insurers underestimate the scope of their innovation challenge
Life insurers need to reach a new breed of consumers
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - Financial Innovation: A solution for the current economic climate
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Legal Page - What happens when a TPD claimant is declared bankrupt in Australia?
Digitisation Focus
Asian insurers and regulators confront digitisation challenges
Asia Anti-Money Laundering Summit - Stepping up the game against money laundering
Marine awash with counterparty and cyber risks
MARIM Conference 2016: Reimagining risk management
Asian
Asia:Employers to spend more on health insurance over next 3 years
Japan's quakes in April are the costliest in 1H2016 - Aon Benfield
Volatile and complicated marine risks on the rise
Asia Pacific: Allianz launches its next-generation digital sales tool
Australia: QBE reports 46% plunge in 1H net gains
Cambodia: Life sector boosts 1H insurance market growth
China: Insurers ordered to audit risks in vast swathe of functions
China: Regulator to tighten insurance intermediary licensing
Hong Kong: QBE will be exclusive supplier of GI products for Manulife
Hong Kong: More planning and resources needed for GN 16 implementation - EY
India: Proposed GST to have negative impact on insurance
India: Regulator sets out timeframe for mandatory listing of insurers
Indonesia: Prudential ties up with pawnshop group for premium collection
Japan: Foreign insurers call for improvement in risk management
South Korea: Insurers to be given more leeway to invest overseas
Malaysia: Insurance mart to undergo most significant change in decades
Myanmar: 3rd-party auto insurance premiums increased
Nepal: Regulator to make home insurance mandatory
Pakistan: Regulator wants insurers to update websites
Philippines: Insurance regulator to push mandatory disaster cover
Singapore: China Re opens first overseas branch
Sri Lanka: Impact of May floods on insurers exceeds that of 2004 tsunami
Taiwan: Lower risk charges seen as increasing strain on insurers' risk capacity
Thailand: Muang Thai Group clinches operating licence in Laos
Vietnam: 1H insurance sales see six-year high growth
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COVER STORY
Increasing interest in Asia has helped local reinsurers grow beyond their borders. Faced with competition, Asian reinsurers have learnt quickly and set their sights on the wider world. We speak to seven Asian reinsurers about their global plans.
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COUNTRY PROFILE - China
While the economic engine of China may be slowing, China's insurance sector is still rising strongly. With the launch of the Shanghai Insurance Exchange, there is great excitement in the air and new players are still coming in. Insurers are...
SPOTLIGHT
At a recent insurance workshop organised by the regulator, experts including those from the World Bank suggested reforms to liberalise the market.
INSIGHTS - Think Tank
In this extract from his Keynote, Professor Robert C Merton, a Nobel Prize Laureate for Economics, stresses the need for the industry to rebuild trust including through tapping into financial innovation.
INSIGHTS - Legal Page
In Australia, it was recently ruled that a bankrupt's entitlement to total and permanent disability benefit is not necessarily vested in the Official Trustee in Bankruptcy.
SPECIAL FEATURE - Digitisation Focus
The technological disruption reshaping industries as diverse as automobiles and food delivery has come to insurance. Insurers and regulators need to engage and move forward together to cater to the changing marketplace.
Insurers must offer the customer an experience that exceeds expectations. Mr Chris Ma, Chairman of the Organising Committee of 28th EAIC in Macau, elaborates on this topic which is also the theme of the biennial event.
The first female on the Board of Management and also its youngest, Ms Sinéad Browne, COO of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) shares how she has managed to maintain high operational efficiency and effectiveness of a global network that...
Mr K Sanath Kumar, Chairman-cum-Managing Director (CMD) of National Insurance Company, has a three-decade long career with the general insurance industry in India. He has lately been the government's "go-to man" whenever they needed...
Ms Farzana Chowdhury, Managing Director and CEO of Green Delta Insurance Company, was honoured at the UN Global Compact Leaders' Summit 2016 held in New York in June as one of 10 Local Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Pioneers for her efforts...
43 insurers, brokers, risk managers, service providers and industry leaders, the best in our industry in 2015, have met the judges late last month for the judging.
In an era of unprecedented global uncertainties, financial services organisations, particularly the insurance industry, must rethink how to develop and manage their strategies.
Despite posting the lowest economic growth rate in 25 years, China is seeing tremendous progress and the potential for more in the insurance industry. The industry reported a total premium of US$387 billion in 2015, a 18.3% jump from 2014. Asia...
The Chinese insurance market is changing rapidly in 2016. But challenges are outweighing opportunities for most companies at the moment. Ms Helen Qian and Ms Angela Koechli of Peak Re elaborate.
Cyber insurance purchases still lag way behind property and general liability (GL) insurance. An expert shares what insurers can do to boost the cyber insurance market in Asia.
Around 85% of the typhoon loss in Japan derives from typhoon wind. However, the importance of typhoon flood cannot be overlooked either, particularly when evaluating risk at a local level.
Farmers should view insurance as a form of volatility smoothing and not as a cash handout. Subsidies are needed to bring the premium within the farmers' buying power. These are some of the several factors needed for the success of sustainable...
Dedicated analytics and lifetime engagement with the customers can deliver significant premium growth on direct channels.
Wearables are prevalent today but wearable technology in insurance in Asia is just gaining momentum. It is an obvious value added service to an insurance product. Insurers have much to gain from working on this technology.
Hubs, lofts, garages all sound cool - but are they enough for the insurance industry? It seems not. The industry needs to be redesigned and fundamental questions and issues must be addressed, says an expert.
In the face of increasing instances of money laundering in both life and general insurance, regulators and practitioners alike have their work cut out for them. We bring you highlights.
In recent months, the marine industry has been hard hit by China's slowdown, the failure of emerging markets to do sufficiently well and a global economic malaise. We find out how to stay afloat in choppy waters.
Risk professionals must broaden their view of risks and think of innovative solutions in managing risks. This was the clarion call at the Malaysian Association of Insurance & Risk Management (MARIM)'s annual conference.
Medical insurers have forecast that employers will spend more on health insurance in the next three years, as the cost of healthcare benefits in the Asia Pacific is projected to increase over the period.
The two powerful earthquakes that struck Japan’s Kumamoto region on 14 and 16 April were the costliest natural disasters in the first half of 2016 in terms of economic loss as well as insured loss perspective, said Aon Benfield’s Impact...