Insurance CEOs buckle up
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Life & health
A technological boost
General
Marine and supply chain - Supply-chain risk management strategy needed
Marine and supply chain - Autonomous ships ahoy?
Drones and insurance of persons and property
Surety insurance: A boost for infrastructure projects
The Indian market continues to stay resilient
The Geneva Association - Insuring hostile cyber activity: In search of sustainable solutions
Holding back the tide
South Korea
K-ICS: The new regulatory regime for South Korea
Life insurance reliance on health
Pushing towards a digital reality
Critical illnesses are being managed better
Staying resilient in a tough environment
Listed insurers on course for continued growth
Insurance after 20 years of WTO membership
Insurers can support healthy ageing
Technology and market access drive strong M&A performance
Business interruption - improving customer outcomes
Infographics - insights from the industry
Asian
IAIS unveils workplan for the next two years
India: Women account for a third of all new individual life insurance policies
Vietnam: Insurance market set to post double-digit growth in 2022
Lloyd's Asia launches new renewable energy consortium
Risk
Secondary perils take an increasing share of CAT losses
New sources of volatility in a world of interconnected risks
Pandemic is here to stay, so learn to live with it
Product bites
People on the move
MARKET PROFILE - South Korea
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NOTEBOOK
Last year saw strong M&A activity across the globe, with many companies turning a profit for the first time in five years. However, insurers were less active on this front.
CHINA
In 2001, China officially became the 143rd member of the World Trade Organization. Insurance was at the forefront of China’s opening up and, since then, foreign insurance giants have poured into the market.
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INSURANCE - General
Ransomware and supply chain attacks in particular have become more prolific since the onset of the pandemic and with them wider recognition of the potential for large-scale economic disruption from malicious cyber incidents.
In almost every major loss situation, adjusters require the support and skills of other specialists and professionals to assist in resolving the more complex areas of the claim.
Many leading CEOs in the insurance, reinsurance and risk sectors will have heaved a sigh of relief at the closing of 2021 – in the fond hope that 2022 would prove to be less punishing that the year just gone.
The insurance industry is racing to be at the very cutting-edge of technology, taking various paths to the finish line.
In order to stay competitive and relevant, risk management has to be an essential component of the global supply-chain network.
As technology evolves and present-day ships are transformed into autonomous ones, what are the likely risks that this advancement will entail?
Climate change continues to exacerbate the protection gap, with 2021 being the fourth worst year in history in terms of Nat CAT losses – and the top three years also occurred within this decade.
We spoke to the Financial Supervisory Service’s Mr Cho Young Ik to get an overview of the most significant regulatory changes to affect the market in the past year.
The Korean insurance industry has not been unduly impacted by the pandemic. Yet, to remain in good health and be able to respond better to the post-pandemic environment, it needs to innovate.
We find out how Korean insurers have weathered a tough year from General Insurance Association of Korea’s Mr Jong-Hyuk Shin.
As China rapidly becomes one of the most aged society, ageing has become a social issue.
Every week, Asia Insurance Review surveys its readership to glean insights into the big issues that confront leading executives in insurance and reinsurance in the region. The results of our surveys are published in the form of a series of...
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) published its 2022-2023 roadmap outlining the projects and activities that form the IAIS’ work programme over the next two years, guided by the IAIS’s strategic plan 2020-2024.
The number of individual life insurance policies issued to women in the financial year ended 31 March 2021 (FY2021) was around 9.3m which was 33.00% of the total number of 28.1m new policies sold to both men and women in the fiscal year, according...
The total insurance premium revenue in Vietnam in 2021 is estimated to have increased by 15.59% to VND215tn ($9.4bn) in 2021, according to information from the Department of Insurance Management and Supervision which is part of the Ministry of...