Editorial
Mr George Sartorel: Thoughts on the winning formula at the F1
Interview - HK-OCI gears up preparations to pass the baton
Lloyd's: Asian reinsurance buying trends not quite on par yet
Interview - Malaysian Re to fly the Asean flag in a bigger way
Interview - Antares joins Lloyd's Asia, sets eyes on China
Risk Management Interview - Tunstall Associates: Going solo - Not for the faint of heart
19th Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2015 - When the stars shine: Brilliance floods Asia
Reinsurance Spotlight - SIRC: Meeting society's unmet needs in an uncertain world
Spotlight on Loss Adjusting - Cunningham Lindsey looks to do more with less
Spotlight on AAC & Actuaries - 19th Asian Actuarial Conference: Actuaries can play a more prominent role in policy decisions
Spotlight AAC & Actuaries - Key role for actuaries as insurance moves from protection to prevention
Product Bytes
Life Feature - Asia's Senior Markets: More opportunities than challenges?
Event Page - Hong Kong Insurance Awards 2015 winners
Event Page - Philippine insurers look into future trends
Cover Story - AEC: Set in Motion - AEC: Southeast Asia welcomes a new economic dawn
Cover Story - AEC: Regulatory harmonisation must go hand in hand with liberalisation in ASEAN
Sri Lanka: Developing in the right direction
Sri Lanka: Interview with the Regulator: A need to develop products that meet diverse needs
Sri Lanka: A market on the verge of a rebound
Sri Lanka: The segregation of life and general business
Think Tank: The Geneva Association - India: Social insurance schemes in the social media era
Legal Page - Singapore law on automotive emissions standards and automobile product liability
Agriculture Focus - Digital AGRO
Agriculture Focus - Parametric Insurance: Solution against climate change effects
Emerging Risks Focus - The new seven
Customer Focus - Guidance Note 16 in Hong Kong: Treating customers fairly is more than just compliance
Indonesia Rendezvous 2015 - BPO deficits & reinsurance retention: Old story, new twist
FAIR at 50 - Call for more regional cooperation through reforms
Marine Market Update - Marine insurance still grappling with profitability issues
IT in Insurance - An insurer's journey to cloud
Asian News - Asia: Need PPP to close gap in Nat CAT insurance
Asian News - Asia: Experts remain bullish on China, regional prospects
Asia News - Asia: Population at risk of severe floods to rise by 30% by 2020
Asian News - ASEAN: Flood models developed for Malaysia and Jakarta
Asian News - Australia: Commission guidelines for retail life insurance
Asia News - Bangladesh: World Bank to help build insurance sector capability
Asian News - China: Estimated losses from Tianjin blasts exceed US$1.5 bln
Asian News - Hong Kong: Zurich buys general insurer Kono
Asian News - India: Guidelines issued for foreign branches and Lloyd's presence in market
Asian News - Indonesia: Haze disaster to spark claims avalanche
Asian News - Japan: Postal insurer unlikely to shake up life market despite hot IPO
Asian News - South Korea: Regulator steps up moves to revitalise insurance mart
Asian News - Malaysia: More financial protection needed against cancer
Asian News - Myanmar: Insurance mart grown by 40% since opening up in 2013
Asian News - Pakistan: Rules drafted for reinsurance brokers
Asian News - Philippines: IC Commissioner Dooc named as honorary commissioner of Louisiana
Asian News - Singapore: Several (re)insurers expand in city state
Asian News - Singapore: With 485 complaints, FY2014/5 saw most gripes against FIs' practices
Asian News - Taiwan's ILP mart most attractive for foreign asset managers - Cerulli Associates
Asian News - Thailand: New laws will see further liberalisation
Asian News - Vietnam: Sun Life Financial to increase its stake in PVI Sun Life to 75%
Global News - M&A trend set to persist into 2016
Global News - Lloyd's gives syndicates scope to write 3-yr contracts from 2016
Global News - IAIS adopts HLA requirement and revises some ICPs
Risk Management News - Mix of energy sources needed to provide energy security
Diary of Events
People on the Move
COVER STORY
With the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to be formally launched on 1 January 2016, Asia Insurance Review recaps what an integrated market would mean for insurers and other businesses, and provides a quick list of the interesting dynamics and prospects of the ASEAN region. The clock is ticking. Are you ready?
COUNTRY PROFILE
Sri Lanka is growing strongly with a 6.5% economic growth rate for 2015, two percentage points above 2014. Riding on this wave, the insurance industry is adjusting to the spate of regulatory changes over the past few years including RBC and...
SPOTLIGHT
Stronger forces of unprecedented change seen in any lifetime; the continued protection gap for catastrophe risks; the urgent requirement for insurance to be relevant and innovative as needs for covers are still unmet - these are some of the issues...
The F1 races have drawn to a close and the roar of the engines will go silent as the year ends. Undoubtedly a Formula 1 race is at the pinnacle of motorsports and one of the most popular sporting events across the world. But contrary to the popular...
Buy Now
Hong Kong Commissioner of Insurance John Leung has a host of ongoing projects on his plate including the establishment of the new Independent Insurance Authority (IIA), the policyholders' protection fund (PPF) and the risk-based capital framework....
Lloyd's CEO Inga Beale shares her observations of the reinsurance buying trend in Asia ahead of the 1/1 renewals. By Dawn Sit
Malaysian Re's Chief Executive Officer Zainudin Ishak discusses how the national reinsurer intends to thrive in a challenging marketplace. By Ridwan Abbas
Asia's insurance industry celebrated its very best at the 19th Asia Insurance Industry Awards (AIIA) gala dinner held on 3 November, which honoured the achievements of outstanding industry members in 15 categories.
We spoke to loss-adjustor Cunningham Lindsey on the challenge of attracting talent and whether technology can bridge some of the gap.
At the AAC which saw some 800 delegates, the role of actuaries in the decision making chain in insurance was feted and actuaries were urged to play more prominent roles in the public and private sectors.
Death benefits are no longer the main need of Asia's rapidly expandingsenior markets. Today's necessities are protecting retirement income and assets to ensure that both living and health care costs and needs are covered. Mr Ray Jeon, Mr Andy Hui...
Winners of the 13 categories of the 2nd Hong Kong Insurance Awards 2015 were announced at a gala dinner in late October.
What are the trends that will have lasting impact on the non-life insurance industry in the future?
With the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to be formally launched on 1 January 2016, Asia Insurance Review recaps what an integrated market would mean for insurers and other businesses, and provides a quick list of the interesting dynamics and...
Insurance associations and regulators from around Southeast Asia descended upon the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, for their annual gathering - with discussions around the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) taking centre stage as member states prepare...
Mrs Indrani Sugathadasa, Chairperson, Insurance Board of Sri Lanka (IBSL), is on a mission to change the functioning of the insurance industry for which a number of regulatory changes have been implemented over the past year. In an exclusive...
The implementation of the risk-based capital regime, increase in capital requirements and compulsory public listings in the past one year have resulted in the slower growth of the insurance industry in Sri Lanka. Seen to be in a transition phase,...
In this article extracted from The Geneva Association's newsletter, Dr S Jayaprakash of Nanobi Data and Analytics, Bangalore, discusses India's evolution in terms of population growth and the challenges it faces in bridging the gap between the...
With the continuing development of the Volkswagen scandal, Mr Ian Roberts (Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore) and Mr Marcus Yip (Clasis LLC) explain the country's law with which motor vehicles' purchasers can bring action against motor manufacturers and...
Mr Daniel Qi of Allianz SE Reinsurance Asia Pacific shares the latest technologies used in agriculture today and says these can also help agriculture and livestock insurers to underwrite, monitor, investigate and assess claims.
Mr Tanguy Touffut of AXA Corporate Solutions discusses the benefits of parametric insurance, seen as a promising solution for farmers and other weather-sensitive industries against climate change effects.
Mr Robert De Souza of Aon Benfield discusses the seven emerging risks, collaborating with the academia and the three areas which (re)insurers can focus on to achieve organic growth.
The Indonesian insurance regulator is intent on boosting the local industry's risk retention capabilities to reduce the industry's BOP deficit. The debate continued at the 21st Indonesia Rendezvous in Bali, with more tweaks to the rules announced.
At the Federation of Afro-Asian Insurers and Reinsurers (FAIR)'s 50th Golden Jubilee bash in founding city Cairo, the calls were still for insurance markets in the region to enhance cooperation.
Experts at the 3rd Asia Marine Insurance Conference stressed the urgent need for more to be done on the talent front while tackling the urgent cyber risks in addition to turning the marine market around.
Mr Dan Himmerich at CSC stresses the two key steps for insurers in this journey to become cloud empowered: a strategy for application classification and insight into application modernisation targeting cloud optimised design.