Life & health
Ready to embark on next stage of growth
The risk of complacency
Alternative channel to form one-third of business in five years
General
Cooperation: The way forward for AIRDC
Takaful: Fighting for survival
Indian farmers can now breathe easy
Becoming a risk-knowledge company
Traditional role of reinsurers back in favour
Local knowledge counts in reinsurance
A new take on risk origination
In the quest to deliver value
25 years after hurricane Andrew
Far East farsightedness
Spreading its wings
Modelling silent cyber incidents
Agrifood: Skeleton in the closet
Climate change and the hurricane season
Sustainable returns for insurers
Multi-strategy fixed income – considerations for insurers
Defining factor investing in Asia
Singapore
Interview with the Monetary Authority of Singapore
Multi-channel engagement
New avenues of growth amid a challenging claims climate
The gem at the heart of blockchain insurance
A problem waiting to be solved
A decentralised approach to inclusive insurance
The Geneva Association - Insurance in the digital age
Insurers enter the era of bots
Why a digital transformation is vital for the insurance industry
The new reality
The new actuary
The search for talent
View from India
Reinsurance at new crossroads
Product Bites
Asian
Asia: Singapore, HK and Korea have highest estimated health insurance gaps per household
Australia: Inquiry tables life insurance policy questions
China: Insurance salespersons are mostly female and aged 25-45
Indonesia: Government launches national disaster risk financing strategy
Hong Kong: Insurance premiums grow by 8% to $62bn in 2017
India: Modicare to have a domino effect on the entire healthcare landscape
Japan: 40% of health insurance societies anticipate losses for latest financial year
Malaysia: Government looking at increasing retirement age
Philippines: Government works with Lloyd's and World Bank on insurance protection
South Korea: Hikes in premiums in reimbursement-backed private medical insurance to be capped
Singapore: Leading insurers to accelerate digital transformation
Taiwan: Taiwanese spend $4,998 a year on insurance
Vietnam: Government agencies aim to regularise traffic accident data
Global
Natural catastrophes cost global economy 'tens of billions' in September - Aon
Risk
Cyber-related losses expected to rise across all business lines in next 12 months - Willis Re
People on the move
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INSURANCE - Life & health
Manulife has set the tone for a paradigm shift in how it delivers its proposition to Asia’s burgeoning middle class.
INVESTMENT
Schroders global head of stewardship Jessica Ground discusses the question of convincing insurance investors that they must ‘be engaged’ in their efforts to invest sustainably.
Kuwait Re and its pioneering role as a reinsurer in the Gulf.
The unwinding of a decade of experimental monetary policy means the risks attached to traditional fixed income are rising.
By embracing the growing importance of models and digitisation, Asia-based asset owners can deliver on their own evolving return expectations in today’s new market landscape.
TECHNOLOGY
With non-traditional players entering the insurance industry, incumbents need to undertake digital transformation and improve how they respond to customer expectations. DXC Technology’s Mohit Banerjee examines the changing marketplace.
Time in the connected world is moving so imperiously fast. There is no time to stand and stare and no time to even get reloaded as the 2019 renewals are upon us in full swing with the 15th SIRC. The record numbers coming each year to the...
The insurance industry needs to embrace digitalisation and technological transformation to keep up with the pace of change.
Generali’s regional officer for Asia Roberto Leonardi sees both agency and alternative distribution as twin pillars of future growth for the Italian insurer.
Many in the insurance and reinsurance market look to Swiss Re for cues about what is coming next – Swiss Re global CEO Christian Mumenthaler and Asia CEO Jayne Plunkett talk about what lies ahead.
Willis Re International’s James Vickers provides an insider’s view of what comes next in reinsurance.
Echo Re CEO Gilles Meyer and chief underwriting officer Piotr Nowakowski talk about risk and client selection.
Finding a way to create models that simulate the impact of incidents that could cause silent cyber-related losses could become something of a holy grail.
Healthy overall sector risk in agrifood is hiding deteriorating credit risk in the wholesale subsector, according to Euler Hermes.
Given the strength of typhoon Mangkhut, and the nature of the exposure at risk in each of those regions, the impacts and estimated losses were within expected parameters.
MAS insurance department executive director Daniel Wang provides candid insights on a tough year, regulation, InsurTech and the city-state’s role as an insurance hub.A
A look at the critical illness gap in Singapore and how digitalisation and customisation can engage life insurance customers better.
Singapore’s general insurance industry seeks to tap new growth opportunities, even as motor and health claims take a toll on the sector’s profitability.
B3i chief technology officer Markus Tradt talks about the growth trajectory and the need to educate insurers about the benefits of blockchain.
Asia Insurance Review spoke to DBS’ Benjamin Yeo about being a critical link in the insurance chain.
Inclusive insurance requires a company to have low operational and transaction costs in order to remain sustainable, given the demographic that lives in the protection gap.
The 2018 Asian Actuarial Conference was held in Hong Kong this year. Speakers discussed the role of actuaries in the new insurance world.
Asia Insurance Review spoke with Actuarial Society of Hong Kong’s Simon Lam and Billy Wong to get their perspective on what the future will be like for actuaries.
Foreign reinsurers’ branches in India feel that the existing order of preference giving GIC Re the first right of refusal does not afford them a level playing field.
Indonesia: Chubb launches comprehensive home insurance Singapore: First bancassurance cyber product Singapore: Swiss Re’s commercial insurance arm launches haze protection product Global: Modeller introduces silent...
In Asia, the estimated average health insurance gap for all households for 2017 is the biggest in Singapore, followed by Hong Kong and South Korea, according to a study by Swiss Re, ‘Asia’s Health Protection Gap: Insights for building...
The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry has exposed systemic issues in the life insurance market and its code of practice. The commission’s interim report released late in September...
The profile of China’s 8m insurance salespersons can be summarised as ‘female’ and ‘young’ whose customer base comprises people close to them, according to the ‘2018 China Insurance Intermediary Market White...