From Editor-in-chief
Meteorites: Will we "luck out" one day?
Asset Management Focus: Rethinking asset allocation approaches
Asset Management Focus: Finding balance in "stingy" times
Thoughts on Diversity: Anti-diversity
Social Media: Still not too late to be early
CATs back in the spotlight
Affordability, availability key issues in disaster insurance
Attention swings to risk mitigation
Challenges facing the reinsurance industry
Underwriting equation gets too little attention
Breast and prostate cancers - The Australian Experience
Australia's changing insurance landscape - The refreshing winds of change
Pakistan: Interview with Regulator: Innovate to impact
Pakistan: A market in the throes of recovery
The Geneva Association: Derivatives and risk management
Blanket notifications: McManus v ERIC
The Jersey glide
Beyond "admitted" and "non-admitted"
Managing risk in reinsurance
Why captives?
Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre: Non-life insurance market growth in China - Can we predict it?
The way forward in insurance - Data standards and analytics
Addressing catastrophic clusters
Realising opportunities from reforms
Clients' advocates need self-advocacy
Asia : Over supply of RI capacity could spell danger
Asia: AIG's Les Mouat retires
Australia: Federal govt commits US$102.5 mln to beef up flood mitigation
China: PICC Chair says insurance can support urban-rural devt
Chinese govt working towards sustainable pension payment
Hong Kong: Tax cut to energise captive insurance market
India: IRDA names former LIC Chief Vijayan as new Chairman
Foreign reinsurers to get larger slice of Indian business
Indonesia: Coface opens new rep office
Japan: Premium hike expected in EQ insurance
Takaful Malaysia reports stellar 2012 results
Malaysia: Act proposes to stop composite business
Philippines: Life grew 39%; non-life 8% in 2012
Philippines: Still "relatively uninsured" for life - APLIC
William Roberts Lawyers sets up office in Singapore
Singapore: Non-life underwriting profits rose 16% to US$231 mln in 2012
Singapore: Flexible plans for next-geneneration expats
Global insurers to foot half of Sandy losses
Traditional vs alternative reinsurers: Competition heats up
Populous 21st century to see rise in Nat CATs and fatalities
Diary of Events
People on the move
The unforeseen occurrence of the recent event in the Cheylabinsk region in Russia raises the question of "what if" and whether the industry is ready to face the consequences of a major meteor strike on Earth.
In the current weak investment climate, insurers are rethinking their asset allocation and redefining their risk appetites. Mr Jerome Ponrouch of BNP Paribas Hong Kong shares how they can manage their assets effectively.
Buy Now
Mr Eugene Mak of Natixis Hong Kong Branch advocates that Asian insurers consider a dynamic asset allocation position so as to produce a "smoother' ride.
The biggest enemy of diversity is "anti-diversity" - anything that stomps over things diverse and intending to homogenise them or conversely anything coming in the way of something attempting to diversify. Over the last couple of weeks, I picked two stories both defying this hypothesis. One in a heroic sense and the other in a mysterious way! By Mr Praveen Gupta