FSC Taiwan: Taiwan's supervisory policy - Innovation and sound management
Roland Eckl: In tune with regional trends and client needs
Malcolm C Steingold: Following the golden thread
Swiss Re India: Think big, get innovative and go digital
Winning the InsurTech game
Nat CATs – Earthquake Focus
Managing the tremors
South Asia: Massive Himalayan quake predicted
Modelling and analytics: Building on strong foundations
Megadisaster: What if an M5.7 earthquake struck near Delhi?
Averting disaster
Taiwan
Three steps forward, one step back
Interview with Regulator - A most fruitful year
Non-life insurance: The best is yet to be
Non-life: Market, (un)disrupted
Super-aged demographic can spur Taiwanese life market
Life insurers carve their niche in saturated market
Startup seeks to re-write tradition
Embracing the bright yet challenging future on renewable energy
CFO
Business drivers of the future
Digitalisation disrupts the role of Indian CFOs
CIO’s Dashboard
Insurers need to flex their muscles in a digital and shared economy
CIOs and the opportunities ahead
A diverse system environment
ERM
Managing enterprise risk in a digital world
The future of healthcare is here now
International Health Covers
From International health insurance to InsurTech
Global care
Think Tank
The need for insurance to address flood risk in Asia
Spotlight on April Renewals 2017
"Disciplined softening"
View from India
Moving towards RBC
Asian
From the Blog: WannaCry Alert!!!
Asia: Five life insurers make it to the finals for being the Insurer of the Year for Agents in the 2nd Asia Trusted Agents Awards
14th SIRC to blaze new trails in reinsurance as it goes annual
Asia: China & Japan insurers top region by market cap in 1Q - S&P
Asia: Touching on training needs of agents and advisers - Launch of International Training Summit
Asia: IFoA launches pilot Quality Assurance Scheme
Australia: P&C insurers rue lack of mitigation investment by govt
China: CIRC directs insurers back to basics
Hong Kong: Insurance M&A scene to continue to be lively
Hong Kong and China sign Equivalence Assessment Framework Agreement
India: Govt urged to resolve uncertainty over regulation of pension products
Indonesia: OJK issues new rules on insurance admin sanctions
Japan: Export insurer to offer dollar-denominated trade cover
South Korea: Healthcare costs for seniors to quadruple by 2030
Malaysia: Labuan collects more captive insurance premiums
Philippines: Pre-need firms allowed higher investment limits
Singapore working towards homegrown P&I Club
Taiwan: Govt raises pension eligibility age
Vietnam: Bao Viet tops finance league but ranks 2nd in insurance
Global
Demand for cyber insurance likely to increase as a result of WannaCry attack
Munich Re predicts strong growth for global insurance industry in 2018
Insurers not servicing society's ageing wallet adequately: Swiss Re
Auto insurers increase reliance on service, agents as sales stagnate
Corporate Risk Management
Political risk top macroeconomic concern for insurers: Goldman Sachs
Gap in understanding disruptive tech an opportunity for risk professionals
Agents and Advisers
Some 50 finalists named for 2nd Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards
Product Bytes
People on the move
COVER STORY - Nat CATs – Earthquake Focus
COUNTRY PROFILE - Taiwan
There is a lot of optimism still for this mature market as 2016 saw good growth from both the life (7.06%) and nonlife (7.23%) sectors. There is also no respite from the onslaught of change and the overly cautious regulations add to the struggle for...
GENERAL INSURANCE - CIO’s Dashboard
Asia Insurance Review recently co-hosted a breakfast roundtable with DXC Technology where its Chief Technology Officer, Brian Wallace, discussed the theme of “Raising your Digital Insurance IQ” with an audience of regional executives.
This is an exciting time for the risk modelling and analytics community, says Mr Mohsen Rahnama of RMS. With new modelling and analytics capability, more new and updated models specifically for Asia Pacific can be rolled out. He elaborates...
SPECIAL FEATURE - CFO
For CFOs to provide clear, concise and timely insights that support business growth while managing the traditional regulatory and compliance roles, they need the right infrastructure and resources. Ms Janine Donelly andMr Phil Gough of EY discuss...
LIFE & HEALTH - International Health Covers
The number of patients opting to receive overseas medical treatments is growing at an estimated rate of 15% year-on-year. Mr Deepak Gandhi at Pacific Life Re explores this cross-border healthcare trend and how insurers can tap the opportunity.
INSIGHTS - Think Tank
Dr Kai-Uwe Schanz from The Geneva Association and Professor Shaun Wang from Nanyang Business School, share a comprehensive perspective on how to address flooding, arguably one of Asia’s biggest emerging risk exposures.
Summer’s lease has been palled by WannaCry, fears of ransomware and spear phishing. The global cyberattacks in May have indeed raised awareness of cyber exposures, despite the damages being contained by chance or accident. There is a buzz...
Consumers’ expectations are pushing the insurance industry to embrace innovation and transform itself. As regulator, Dr Thomas Tien-Mu Huang, Vice Chairman of Financial Supervisory Commission, Taiwan, together with his team, work hard to...
Buy Now
Munich Re is streamlining resources in Asia to ensure greater agility and responsiveness to local markets. Mr Roland Eckl, who was appointed Chief Executive Asia Pacific in January and will relocate to Singapore later in September to head a newly...
One of the industry’s stalwarts, Mr Malcolm C Steingold, CEO ofAon Benfield Asia Pacific, is poised to retire from his role,after 24 years with Aon Benfield. Following his illustrious career,we discover the essence behind his success.
Indian insurers want numbers! Both literally and figuratively! Expectations of the Indian customer are ever-evolving. She wants simple, one-click innovative customised solutions. Insurers can offer these, the digitalisation way. We speak with Ms...
The way in which insurers engage with InsurTech startups will be a major factor separating the winners from the losers, said speakers at Asia Insurance Review’s first InsurTech Summit.
Mother Nature is still a dominant force despite all the amazing progress mankind has made in the technology arena in the last few decades. Earthquake is one of the many natural catastrophes that people are extremely fearful of. There is still a lot...
The Himalayan belt in the South Asian region comprising the nations of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar is at great risk of a magnitude 8 earthquake, geologists warn. An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude that hit Nepal in 2015 had resulted...
Despite 2016 being fraught with challenges, including a volatile global economy and a series of unfortunate disasters at home, Ms Grace Lee, Director General of the Financial Supervisory Commission’s Insurance Bureau says the industry has...
Taiwan’s non-life insurance sector recorded a remarkable growth of 7.23% in 2016 as most classes of business saw premiums rise. Asia Insurance Review speaks to its key market players for insights into the sector’s performance and key...
Three CFOs in India talk about their expanding roles in today’s digitally driven environment even as the country’s (re)insurers prepare to go public.
The responsibilities of CIOs are multiplying but there is a talent void in the cybersecurity industry in Singapore. Mr Cheong Wai Hon of Tokio Marine Life addresses this pertinent challenge.
Cyber security is one issue that most often keeps Ms Helen Attenborough of QBE up at night, as the threats and challenges are constantly evolving, especially with the recent WannaCry ransomware attack.
Healthcare’s new technological frontiers may be closer than thought, with online medical diagnosis; possible use of genetic data for underwriting; and social robots as companions for the young and elderly, said Asia Insurance Review’s...
The international private medical insurance (IPMI) industry is likely to see more change over the next five years than it has in the past 20. Mr Damian Delaney of Now Health International Group envisions what this digital revolution will be like.
Mr Jong-Gyu Won of Korean Re gives an overview of the April 2017 renewals in Japan, North America and India, highlighting the pressures on prices as reinsurance capacity remains affordable.
India has not adopted RBC yet. Mr Sonjai Kumar of Aviva Life Insurance Company India says the many steps taken by the regulator in the last few years shows that they are heading towards introducing an RBC framework in the country soon.
The attack surface for cyber risk has been increasing for some time. This is especially in the area of expanding Internet of Things (IOT) device networks and also ransomware which has been tripling every month for some time, mainly in the USA but...
Five insurers from four countries – Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand – have made it to the finals competing to be the Insurance Company of the Year for Agents, at the 2nd Asia Trusted Life Agents and Advisers Awards 2017!
Reinsurers will look to explore fresh opportunities, both from within and outside its traditional landscape at the 14th SIRC, to be held from 31 October to 2 November this year with a star-studded cast of speakers.