Life & health – Ageing special focus
Ageing: An opportunity and a threat
Confronting ageism
Retirement age is just another number
Plugging the protection gap for seniors
General
A leading mentality
A sidecar named Lion Rock
Aiming for the top 10 spot
The changing face of (re)insurance
Cautious expansion
A question of strategy
The Geneva Association - Managing physical climate risk: Leveraging innovations in catastrophe risk modelling
From threats to impact: Evolving cyber-risk concerns in Asia
Modelling and data help with risk management
The complexity of terrorism pools
Opportunities and recommendations for insurers in 2019
Belt and road initiative: Expansion has its challenges
P&C growth drivers in China
China news - World Bank advocates universal public long-term care financing system for China
China news - Life sector's margins improve despite slowing premium growth
China news - Rules for financial holding companies expected to be issued this year
India
Moving into a high growth phase
General insurance - in their own words
Motor insurance in India in 2018
Foreign reinsurers' branches - steady as she goes
A market ripe for InsurTech pickings
Is Indian healthcare healthy?
Trends in disruption
Goodbye 2018, hello again in 2019
Innovation crystal ball 2019
ASEAN's insurance sector and the fourth industrial revolution
Claims: A 'moment of truth' for insurers
Day one of insurance 2.0
Digital enhances the role of insurance in society
Asian
Fourth Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards launched
ASEAN: Healthcare forms biggest non-life protection gap
Australia: Aviation crashes are top cause of loss over past five years
China: Foreign interest in insurance market at highest level in years
Hong Kong: Berkshire Hathaway is first to offer EC terrorism coverage to customers directly
India: Foreign reinsurers' branches can now bid alongside domestic rivals
Japan: Financial markets pose biggest risks to insurers
Malaysia: SME face underinsurance risk
New Zealand: Insurers increase use of granular data
Philippines: Major life insurer upbeat about sector's prospects
Singapore: Digital insurance broking forecast to take off this year
South Korea: Cloud continues to hang over Samsung Life's stake in electronics giant
Taiwan: 'Spillover' policies attracting interest
Thailand: Regulator unveils insurance product liberalisation blueprint
Vietnam: Korean investors snap up stakes in local insurers
Global
Claims from California wildfires at $9bn
IAIS supervision proposal is too intrusive
US start-up Lemonade looking to make European push
Ping An invests in Berlin start-up
Risk
Hong Kong: Federation of Insurers launches anti-fraud AI database
Global: UN collaborates with major insurers on climate risk-assessment tools
Global: IAIS consults on systemic risk assessment framework
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People on the move
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INSURANCE - Life & health – Ageing special focus
Questions surrounding ageing are fast becoming some of the most important that society faces. We speak to Dr Lam Ching Choi from Hong Kong’s Elderly Commission and Ageing Asia Alliance’s Janice Chia to understand the impending black hole...
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Not only has Asia become the global economic growth engine, it is also fast becoming a centre of innovation and home to much technological advancement, says Marsh.
Catastrophe-loss modelling has revolutionised the (re)insurance industry’s capacity to assess, price and manage risks of extreme events for property/catastrophe business. The Geneva Association takes a look at where CAT modelling is headed.
Happy New Year! So we start 2019 on a high, as the vernacular pun of ‘18’ being sure to prosper turned out to be a hoax.
Dr Kanwaljit Soin, co-founder of a charity that assists women with ageing in Singapore, talks about the urgent need to reframe discussions around longevity into a more positive debate.
We consider the future of work in the 100-year life – extending retirement age, or scrapping it completely, as one insurer has done.
Insurance-linked securities have become big news in the reinsurance world in recent years. But until mid-December Asia, with the exception of Japan, seemed in danger of missing out. No longer, thanks to Peak Re’s bold new sidecar by the name...
AXIS Re is hoping for significant growth in the near future. AXIS Capital’s CEO Albert Benchimol says ILS is an important part of its strategy.
A recent Asia Insurance Review roundtable discussed the twin themes of ‘reinsurers – fit for the future’ and ‘protecting society from Nat CAT’.
Innovation in insurance has been the main driver for growth for many (re)insurers. Clyde & Co senior partner Simon Konsta and Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore partner Ian Stewart discuss the trends across the region.
There is still no way to predict ‘the next big one’, but modelling can help bridge data gaps and improve earthquake risk management, says RMS.
The Australian Reinsurance Pool Corporation was set up under the Terrorism Insurance Act 2003. We spoke to chief executive Dr Christopher Wallace about the changing nature of cover offered by terrorism pools today.
Asia’s financial markets and currencies experienced recurring volatility last year, says M&G Investments.
China is expanding into new territories while developing new products and services. We spoke to Mr Wise Xu of Willis Towers Watson, China to understand the changing nature of risk.
Non-motor insurance will continue as the growth driver for China’s P&C market, despite the US-China trade war creating uncertainties over overall growth dynamics.
Private long-term care insurance, mostly in the commercial insurance sector, in China as a way to enable people to pay for services, most likely will not work, says the World Bank.
The 24 life players in the Indian market have witnessed considerable growth in the past year and today the industry forms a significant part of the capital market in India.
Bridging the protection gap, underwriting risks at the right price and making insurance simpler and empathetic is what the Indian general insurance industry is looking forward to in 2019. Asia Insurance Review spoke to some Indian general insurance...
The biggest beneficiary of the current revamp of the Indian motor insurance segment should be the customer - who should get better customised and more cost-effective products.
The industry of InsurTech gets bigger every year, with more companies attempting to deploy innovative solutions for insurers and insurance customers alike. We break down the technology trends at play in the market.
We swept the newsmakers and headline hoggers for 2018 and highlight some of the significant insurance disruptions, start-ups and InsurTech trends that will bear watching in 2019.
This month sees the introduction of a new innovation column. Asia Insurance Review secured insights from Mr Stephen Collins.
The third ASEAN Insurance Summit saw insurance executives meet to discuss the impact of ongoing digital transformation.
Insurers should view their claims processes from the customer’s perspective in order to deliver a superior claims experience, as delegates heard at the recent Asia Summit on Claims Management in a Disrupted and Automated World.
The consensus is that it will take less than 10 years for insurance to be reinvented into a version 2.0, says InsurTech Asia founder George Kesselman.
The 4th Asia Trusted Life Agents & Advisers Awards, co-organised with LIMRA and with AIA as strategic partner, were officially launched on 4 January to recognise the role that agents play in boosting the image of insurance in the name of sales...
Healthcare poses the largest non-life protection gap in ASEAN, followed by natural disasters and residential property, according to findings published in the 2018 ASEAN Insurance Pulse, a survey released by the Zurich-based research firm Dr Schanz,...
Aviation collision/crash incidents rank as the top cause of loss in Australia over a five-year period, accounting for almost a third of the total value of all claims in the country, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) in its...