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Fosun: The investment edge
Ageas: Growing through solid partnerships
HSBC Global Asset Management: Matching liabilities for more secure returns
Reinsurance renewals - Stability and sustainability expected
Reinsurance renewals - The need for sustainability and the realities of the 2015 renewal
Reinsurance renewals - Rendez-vous de Septembre: Conservative optimism sets tone for market
Reinsurance renewals - The Right Price for Risk: "Let's not underestimate the human element in underwriting"
Reinsurance renewals - The partnership package
Underwriting focus - Harnessing social media data for enhanced underwriting effectiveness
New business: Casualty insurance - Urbanisation: Implications for casualty insurance in emerging markets
Marine spotlight: Underwriters can be their own worst enemies
Life focus - Southeast Asia's developing life insurance markets
Broker focus: Establishing a native global broker in Japan
Broker focus: The changing landscape of reinsurance broking
Investment & asset management in insurance: Strategic asset allocation for Asia-Pacific life insurers
CIO summit focus: Impact of technology - Online comparison portals: New partners for Asia's insurance industry
CIO summit focus: Impact of technology - Coordinating the chaos of insurance customer communications
Corporate profile: AXIS Capital: Celebrating 10 years in the dynamic Asia-Pacific region
A drive to benefit consumers & companies
Interview with Regulator: Game plan for success
Life: Marching to the beat of market-friendly regulations
Non-life: Full steam ahead for innovation
Staying resilient in times of change
More regulatory hurdles removed to facilitate foreign investment activities
Myanmar - Foreigners welcome now to help in market development
Myanmar - Patience is a virtue here!
Pensions: Incentives and creativity needed to encourage more to act on pensions
Insurance for the greater good
Big data and how to ensure it does not become a big issue
Bring on tomorrow - How brokers and carriers can combine to help drones take off
Takaful rendezvous - Retakaful: Beyond capacity provision
Asia: EAIC is finally here!
Asia: LIAM: Life Association marks 40 years
Asia: Protectionism threatening Asian economies - Lloyd's Chairman
Asia Pacific regional reinsurers more resilient than CEEMEA to headwinds - S&P
Asia: Ship hijackings on the rise in Southeast Asia's waters
Asia: Par business in Asia gaining market share - Milliman
Australia: Govt entities work to achieve a more positive risk culture
China: Premiums grow strongly despite product restrictions
China: RGA receives Shanghai branch licence
India: IRDA says industry needs $8 billion capital infusion
India: Government health insurance scheme reduces mortality among poors
Indonesia: New supervisory unit for financial groups to be set up
Japan: Tokio Marine sees many good M&A targets in the US
Malaysia: LIAM seeks more incentives from government
Singapore: Life insurance web aggregator to be ready by 1Q 2015
Singapore: Plan to launch CAT bond in Singapore
Singapore: Expats find living costs in Singapore impacting their savings habits
Thailand: Pacific Cross Group makes Thai acquisition
Asian Risk Management Conference 2014: A game-changing initiative by PARIMA
Hong Kong insurance industry hosts inaugural award ceremony
ASEAN insurance summit: The ASEAN way to integration
Willis launches Disease Response Center site amid Ebola threat
Influx of new capital continues to reshape reinsurance market - Guy Carpenter
Lloyd's reports 21% increase in profit for 1H 2014
Insurance industry to double its climate-smart investment by end of 2015
Mutuals and cooperatives are the fastest-growing insurance sector since 2007 - ICMIF
IFC-World Bank partners with AXA to boost insurance coverage globally
Diary of events
People on the move
COVER STORY
Despite the market being awash with excess capacity, most reinsurers see rates stabilising for the renewals and expect Nat CAT rates to bottom out. There is also the stress on sustainable relationships going for the current flavour of the month. And we bring you a perspective on the right price and the human factor as well as an article on "capital package" that can be provided by reinsurance.
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COUNTRY PROFILE
The regulator continues its busy work of introducing more regulations and policies as it works towards putting in place a more market-friendly environment for the industry to benefit both consumers and companies. Plans are afoot to boost the...
SPOTLIGHT
While Myanmar may not be opening its doors to foreign investments in insurance yet, the government is open to having foreign insurers provide training and research expertise to the local sector. H.E. Dr Maung Maung Thein, Deputy Minister, Ministry...
It is no secret that Fosun, the leading privately-owned investment group taking root in China, models itself and learns from the Warren Buffett model. Mr Liang Xinjun, Vice Chairman and CEO of Fosun International, shares with Asia Insurance Review...
Having become a serious contender in Asia's life insurance space, Ageas wants to continue developing partnerships and also grow its non-life share, says its global CEO Bart De Smet in an exclusive interview with Asia Insurance Review. By Wong...
Mr Patrice Conxicoeur of HSBC Global Asset Management sketches the upcoming investment landscape facing insurers in Asia. By Ridwan Abbas
Despite the market being awash with excess capacity, most reinsurers see rates stabilising for the renewals and expect Nat CAT rates to bottom out. There is also the stress on sustainable relationships going for the current flavour of the month. And...
The word "sustainability" has replaced "solutions" as this decade's hot buzzword. "Solutions" is now applied to topics as diverse as financial services to bottled drinking water and plumbing, and in the same way "sustainability" is creeping from...
Every year, delegates from all over the world converge on a single location to attend the Rendez-vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo for what is perhaps the biggest event in the insurance and reinsurance industry. At this year's conference, which drew...
Mr Vijai S Raghunathan, Mr Abhishek Mishra and Mr Vinodh Stephen Stanley of Cognizant Business Consulting, look at harnessing social data to analyse different risk-related aspects of a customer.
To reap the benefits of the urbanisation trend, Mr Yves-Daniel Cochand and Mr Amit Kalra from Swiss Re urge insurers to follow city-centric and regional strategies and continuously strengthen their models to incorporate ever-growing risk exposures.
At the IUMI 2014 conference, delegates were told why marine underwriters are sometimes their "own worst enemies".
This year has been a flurry of activities for Taiwan's insurance regulator as it aims not only to assist insurers in coping in an intensely competitive environment, but also to enhance the insurance industry's comparative edge and to accelerate the...
With an array of regulation changes and new policies being announced by the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), the life insurance market in Taiwan is abuzz with activity as players welcome the market-friendly measures and seek to act on them...
Foreign insurers keen to enter the insurance market in Myanmar will need to be patient as the market is not likely to open up anytime soon.
The challenge of longevity risk lies in effectively educating the public on it and incentivising them to take action to plan their retirement, said speakers at the recent 10th Asia Conference on Pensions & Retirement Planning.
In an extract from The Geneva Association's newsletter, Mr Katsuo Matsushita of The Geneva Association and Mr Kunihisa Kawasaki of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd share six approaches the insurance industry must adopt to fulfil its role of...
Mr John Gallagher and Ms Brittany Guilleaume from Clyde & Co, Australia discuss the regulatory landscape in Australia which governs the use of big data and the concerns companies must address to ensure it does not become a big issue.
Across (and above) Asia Pacific, the introduction of low-cost, reliable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offers an unprecedented opportunity for the aviation insurance industry. Mr Daniel Crispe of AIG explores.
Ms Suhaida Mohd Sulaiman of ACR Retakaful says that to stay relevant in a tough market, a retakaful operator has to go beyond merely providing capacity.
The EAIC is finally here! At last count, about 1,300 delegates will be attending this prestigious event from 2-6 November in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Life Association of Malaysia (LIAM) celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year, and continues to play an important role in promoting a strong and sound life sector in Malaysia, while enhancing public knowledge and appreciation for life insurance....
Creeping protectionism around the world is threatening the prosperity and stability of Asian economies, according to Mr John Nelson, Chairman of Lloyd's of London, the world's specialist insurance market.
The Pan-Asia Risk and Insurance Management Association, better known as PARIMA, is a not-for-profit professional membership association set up by leading industry professionals for risk managers in Asia.
The Hong Kong Federation of Insurance, in conjunction with Metro Finance, held its inaugural award ceremony, the Hong Kong Insurance Awards 2014, last month on 9 October.
As the region moves closer towards integration in line with ASEAN Economic Community 2015, insurance leaders and regulators came together for the inaugural ASEAN Insurance Summit and heard how integration will be done the ASEAN way, and what can be...
Willis is closely following developments related to the Ebola virus and has launched its Disease Response Center microsite, a one-stop hub for clients and Associates on willis.com. The portal features a comprehensive set of resources to help firms...
In the last 24 months, approximately US$20 billion of new capital has entered the market through investments in insurance-linked securities, funds and sidecars as well as the formation of hedge fund-related reinsurance companies and collateralized...
Lloyd's reported a profit of GBP1.67 billion (US$2.86 billion) for the first six months of 2014, marking a 21% increase on the corresponding period last year.