P&C sector in Asia: The big squeeze
India: Exciting times ahead!
RI branches in India is good news for domestic insurers
No room for complacency
The newcomer advantage
Learning to live in uncertain times
Spreading its links across the world
Coming together as a community
InsurTech: Watershed moment for the industry
FinTech Festival Report
Starting the future today
Trendy behaviour
Staying practical & relevant in the world of InsurTech
India Rendezvous over the years
The Year Ahead
Goldmines and landmines
Journeying forward to a new era
Life insurance: Sixteen going on seventeen!
General insurance needs innovation and digitisation
Reinsurance: A new chapter begins
Health insurance needs a shot in the arm - Trust, technology and wellness
Indian aviation: Challenges and opportunities of a fast growing market
India Nuclear Insurance Pool: First small step of a long journey!
India's demonetisation conundrum
P&I Insurance
P&I clubs holding the fort for members
Looking towards 2017
Distribution in the New World
Digital age transforming insurance agents into advisers
Life insurance distribution: Scale effectively, or be leapfrogged
Consumer behavioural trends
Restoring customer conviction in the promise to protect
Think Tank
Ten key questions on cyber risk and cyber risk insurance
Regulation Focus
Turning regulatory change to your advantage
Regulatory updates
Insurance not a cyber threat security blanket
Beer wars are brewing in Myanmar
Evolving role and authority of insurance CROs
Innovating beyond the status quo
Agassi Wang: A Winner and a real legend of an Agent
Asian
Asia: Compensation alignment is key success factor for bancassurance -FALIA
Asia: CEOs face crossroads in corporate evolution
Asia: Finding new ways to use Big Data
Australia: Financial advisers push innovation in vulnerable areas
Bangladesh: Insurers want industry-friendly law and regulations
China: Insurance sector roiled by crackdown on "barbarian" stock mart players
Hong Kong: Card issuers close loophole in savings insurance purchases
India: Foreign reinsurers likely to open branches in 6-9 months' time
Indonesia: OJK to increase auto & property premiums
Japan: Quake insurance penetration low despite quake vulnerability
South Korea: Financial institutions to draw up crisis recovery plans
Macau: Life insurance premiums surge by 61% in Jan-Sep 2016
Malaysia: Life insurance posts strong 1-3Q 2016 performance
Myanmar: National policy needed for growing number of senior citizens
Nepal: Regulator cuts auto premium rate for private vehicles
Singapore: MAS approves sale of ACR to Chinese parties
Taiwan: Modest growth in premiums forecast for 2017
Thailand: Rules for online insurance sales to be implemented this year
Vietnam: Insurance market sees revenues soar in 2016
Global
Dr Nikolaus von Bomhard is 2017 Insurance Hall of Fame Laureate
Liberty Mutual acquires Ironshore Inc from Fosun for US$3 bln
Growing concern over container ship fires: IUMI
Lloyd's cuts market subscriptions and restructures for 2017
Kay International's new Dubai office to serve Middle East, Asia and Africa
Corporate Risk Management
PARIMA and ANZIIF announce partnership and designation for risk professionals
D&Os at risk from new liability scenarios and anti-corporate litigation culture
Product Bytes
Events Page
RMIA conference: Risk management from all corners of the world
Industry catch-up well attended
Women in Reinsurance (WiRE) celebrates a successful start at year-end networking event
People on the move
GENERAL INSURANCE - P&I Insurance
COUNTRY PROFILE
India has all the ingredients for a vibrant insurance industry – fast growing economy; a dynamic and supportive regulator; a government that walks the talk; huge latent potential customer base and the list goes on.
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COVER STORY - The Year Ahead
Asia remains the largest growth market in the world with a vibrant, diverse population. We talk to several insurers operating in the region to get a view on the opportunities and pitfalls for 2017.
LIFE & HEALTH - Consumer behavioural trends
ReMark International outlines the findings of its 2016 study of consumer behavioural trends in the global life insurance industry.
INSIGHTS - Think Tank
This extract from The Geneva Association’s Cyber and Innovation research programme looks at cyber risk, the wide variation of cyber crime cost estimates by experts, how cyber risk management should be organised as well as several other cyber...
INSIGHTS - Regulation Focus
PwC Hong Kong looks at the upcoming regulatory changes happening in the region and offers tips on preparing for these changes to turning them to an advantage for insurers.
CORPORATE RISK MANAGEMENT
We bring you the findings of EY’s latest first-of-its-kind “Insurance CRO (Chief Risk Officer) survey” for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
2017 has come and not too soon too. What a tumultuous year 2016 was, so bravo to all who survived its trials. It was a hard year as the business climate was in chaos as politics took the front seat and the world went through the shocks of Brexit, a...
Most of the international P&C players in Asia are rationalising as they lay off staff, drive for efficiencies and even cut down on the lines they underwrite. Similarly, domestic insurers are facing tough times. Mr Marc Breuil, President, Asia,...
With the India Rendezvous 2017 round the corner, Mrs Alice G Vaidyan, Chairman-cum-Managing Director of GIC Re, gives an update of all the exciting developments in the Indian insurance industry.
Mr Tapan Singhel, Managing Director & CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, sees numerous good news for domestic insurers including increasing insurance penetration rates and development of innovative and customised products, from the move that...
Mr Mark Tucker, Group Chief Executive and President, AIA, shares the importance of thinking ahead to build on its excellent results and his conviction that this is the “Asian century”.
As the newest composite insurer to join the Singapore market, Mr Abhishek Bhatia, CEO, FWD Singapore, says it holds an advantage over incumbents.
The currently uncertain environment of the economy has led to an increased interest in trade credit risk. Recent events in the political sphere is also adding to the volatility. Mr Bhupesh Gupta, Asia Pacific CEO at Coface, gives his view.
The ASEAN Insurance Summit (AIS) was held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the discussion centred on how the insurance industry could better support economic growth in a more integrated Southeast Asian market as envisioned by the ASEAN Economic...
The industry has failed to keep pace with changes in technology and consumer demands over the years but even as the industry eyes the future with the hive of InsurTech activity, it was reminded not to lose sight of the present at The Digital Insurer...
Jointly organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS), the Singapore FinTech Festival brought together more than 11,000 participants from Fintech industries around the world to showcase new...
InsurTech is the new buzzword. Insurers face many challenges in keeping up with the digital world, but the number of digital labs and garages that are popping up shows they remain undaunted.
With InsurTech becoming an almost household word in the industry, we sent a young and techie Gen Y colleague, to the first ever FinTech Festival in Asia to check out its appeal to insurers. Here’s what he,Chia Hoe Seng, has to say.A must read.
Sensing the need for a networking platform in the Indian market to espouse increased co-operation among the insurers, the brokers and the reinsurers, both national and international, Asia Insurance Review conceived the idea of the India...
The Indian insurance sector is now in the 16th year of operations since liberalisation and has undergone significant challenges since it opened up to private players in 2000. The life insurance segment currently contributes about 7% to India’s...
India’s general insurance industry has arrived at a point where it can very easily leapfrog to the next trajectory in its developmental orbit. It, however, needs to ensure that it makes the best use of numerous opportunities that exist in the...
Despite the ongoing maritime industry downturn and shipping lines remaining in the doldrums, generally strong financials mean P&I clubs have been able to help members weather the storm.
We asked the Clubs about 2017 outlook, key concerns and their priorities and focus. This is what they have to say.
Disruption in the life insurance space is being accelerated by three major trends – low retirement readiness, clients’ expectations for personalisation of all goods and services and the rise of FinTech. Sun Life elaborates.
There is nothing more legacy about life insurance than the traditional distribution model. Galileo Platforms discusses the flaws in the current model and the revolution that is required
PwC brings you a roundup of key regulatory activities around the region in the recent few months.
Kaspersky Lab emphasises the value in companies learning about cyber attacks the hard way.
Operating a business in Myanmar’s relatively greenfield environment can be challenging, said Myanmar Brewery Limited’s risk manager.
An organisation may already be doing well but there are still ways for risk managers to think ahead and seek improvement. The recent PARIMA conference in Hong Kong examined what innovation really means.
As we launch our 2nd Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards this month, we present last year’s Insurance Agent of the Year winner – Ms Agassi Wang of Manulife (International) Limited.
“Compensation alignment” was chosen as a key success factor for generating leads from banks, according to a bancassurance survey by The Foundation for the Advancement of Life & Insurance Around the world (FALIA) conducted last year,...
InsurTech is a term that is only a year old, but has already grown into a US$4.7 trillion industry, with Big Data and Analytics acting as two of the underlying forces that are shaping the future of insurance.