Saluting our best
Sneak preview of tomorrow
The casualty book portfolio
The biggest issues for reinsurers in Asia in 2020
Selling more insurance
The pivot east continues
The importance of embracing technology
Big issues facing the industry in 2020
Challenges between corporates and start-ups
Resilience for Asia's emerging middle-class
An enabler for Asian insurers
Data, technology integration and customer satisfaction
Digital transformation and consumer behaviour
Growing Asia, greater challenges
Collaboration with InsurTechs
Navigating in turbulent times
Risk management in 2020 and beyond
Growth opportunities in Asia
Recurring themes, new challenges
Seeking sustainability in a digital future
Healthy and wealthy: Asia in 2020 and beyond
Trendspotting for 2020
Collaboration on the horizon
Trends shaping the future
Continued growth, but challenges ahead
Reinventing to stay relevant
Life & health
The evolution of healthier lives in Asia
Life & health – South Asia Focus
Bringing health insurance to Bangladesh
The untapped potential of Pakistan health
Nepal - A long way to go yet
Sri Lanka: Innovation can make a difference
General
Corporate insurance will look quite different in the future
New world for claims professionals
SIRC: Facing the climate crisis
Bringing global expertise to a local market
Excitement in growth
Going viral: The vaccination gap
Growing cyber risk
Why dynamic risk pricing is the future of group insurance
Vietnam
Creating a healthy market
Playing with the big boys
Exploring the digital market
A veritable boomtown
Growing with the nation
China reinsurance realities revealed
Will optimism transform into opportunities?
Committed to GBA insurance interconnection
'Diving in' to translate awareness into action
View from India
Banking crisis and insurance industry - view from India
Mission 1bn by 2025
Think Tank
The Geneva Association - Public authority liability and the cost of disasters
Adapt to stay relevant
Infographics
Asian
ASEAN: Bullish prospects for region's insurance market
Asia: McKinsey says region's insurers need to seize digital opportunities
Australia: Premium prices continue to increase
Bangladesh: 31 insurance companies must list on the bourse by 31 Dec
Hong Kong: 1.7m adults lack healthcare protection
India: Multi-peril crop insurance model launched
Indonesia: Credit insurance to push growth of non-life business
Japan: Insurers increase premium rates
Malaysia: Only 15% of SMEs have flood insurance
New Zealand: Reserve Bank chief calls for more effort to build confidence in insurance
Singapore: MAS acts to promote responsible adoption of AI
South Korea: Life insurers see first negative spread in over 70 years
Sri Lanka: Actuaries need to take into account investment volatility
Taiwan: Insurers' exposure to Hong Kong grows
Thailand: Online insurance broker surprised at age distribution of its customer base
Vietnam: Bancassurance is a winning distribution strategy for insurers
China
Reinsurance in China yet to reflect size of the direct insurance market
Revised health insurance regulation takes effect on 1 Dec
Govt agencies studying feasibility of forming agricultural reinsurer
Global
Lloyd's to form single governing body
Allianz and Microsoft form partnership to transform insurance processes
Risk
PARIMA Kuala Lumpur 2019 Conference - 'Redefining Risks' highlights
Events Page
Brunei marks EAIC Day by creating more awareness on financial literacy
People on the move
2020 VISION
INSURANCE - General
Insurers will increasingly need to act as a true partner in corporate risk management, and offer more than insurance products currently deliver, says QBE’s Pat Regan.
COUNTRY PROFILE - Vietnam
PVI Re CEO Trinh Anh Tuan about his view of the Vietnamese industry, the issues regarding talent and how the industry can use the current financial tailwinds to build a stable foundation for the future.
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NOTEBOOK - Think Tank
In an ideal setting a rule of comparative negligence would incentivise the government to take an opti-mal amount of care. Haselt University Professor Jef De Mot and Maastricht University and Erasmus University Professor Michael Faure discuss.
November has been a super hectic month for the industry. But the most recurrent refrain everywhere is the ‘WOW’ factor of success at the 16th SIRC where some 4,000 insurance executives congregated. Many big names bill it now as the...
Some of the winners of this year’s Asia Insurance Industry Awards share their insights on what winning their awards will mean for them – and how they aim to use the award to promote insurance in their market further.
Asia Insurance Review decided to end the year for readers by asking some of the industry’s leading lights to talk about the big issues that will face the industry in 2020 – in insurance, reinsurance, broking, advisory, regulation and...
AIA group chief executive Ng Keng Hooi’s provides some considered insights.
As Bangladesh grapples with low insurance penetration and awareness, the fast-growing yet developing economy is improving healthcare and health protection.
As health insurance grows in Pakistan, the nation is on its way to improve access to healthcare and health protection for the masses.
The 16th edition of the SIRC drew more 1,100 registered delegates, representing over 400 companies and 53 countries from the insurance, reinsurance and broking community.
Beazley recently announced plans to expand in the Asia Pacific, leveraging its underwriting expertise and specialist solutions to more clients across the region.
We spoke to Markel International MD Christian Stobbs about what it takes to be a successful global specialist insurer.
Vaccines have been a shield for humanity against some of the most virulent diseases around. But there are still many people who remain unvaccinated, and this presents the risk that a pandemic could sweep across the world.
Companies should understand their cyber exposures and cyber security has become one of the major considerations in a company’s risk management plan.
When it comes to risk pricing in group insurance, carriers are seeing double… and triple… and quadruple. Many are relying on similar rating factors and arriving at the same indistinguishable price quotes.
Prudential Vietnam’s Clive Baker on what it takes to run a successful life business in Southeast Asia’s most promising nation.
QBE Vietnam and MSIG Vietnam talk about their approach to expanding in the market, attracting and retaining talent and taking advantage of the growing middle class.
Almost 350 delegates signed up for the revamped China Rendezvous 2019 held in Shanghai’s Pudong area with the theme of a ‘brave new era of reinsurance in China’.
The recent relaxations in its financial regulations take China a step closer to an open economy. The relaxations, which touch the insurance industry too, have resulted in a lot of optimism for the foreign insurers.
When it comes to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace, it is important to have supporting policies and leadership from the top as well as people within the organisation exercising small acts of lead-ership to help each other.
Minor aberrations apart, the recent crisis in India’s banking industry does not appear to have impacted the Indian insurance industry.
Speakers at the 15th International Conference on Inclusive Insurance for Emerging Markets held in Dhaka in November addressed the need to double the reach of microinsurance to 1bn by 2025.
Economic development in ASEAN has led to an increase in premium growth, and the momentum likely is to continue, says AM Best in a report titled, ‘ASEAN – Favourable Demographics and Development Boost Economic Growth’.
Asian insurers need to take charge of the opportunity that lies ahead of them or lose out to fast-paced, digital natives entering the insurance market, says global consulting firm McKinsey.
Overall insurance pricing in the third quarter of 2019 in the Pacific region, of which Australia forms the largest market, increased nearly 19%, continuing a trend that began in 2015, says Marsh.