Mark Mitchell: Navigating risk with tailored solutions
Milli Re: Staying stable through the years
Partner Re to grow its Asian footprint
Are you ready for the insurance world of 2025?
Reinsurance Expectations
Asian Insurers: Greater Expectations!
Consultants’ Roundtable
Priority issues for CEOs: Walking down the online avenue
Malaysia
Malaysia morphing
Interview with the Regulator: Reducing the protection gap
General insurance: In for DyNAmic changes
Hearty hopes for life
New regulations shaping the life insurance landscape
Interview with the Regulator: More reforms on the way
RBC in smooth gear now
Marine Hull
Oversupply of ships and marine insurance
The importance of FD&D Insurance in response to world events
Agriculture
Embrace probabilistic risk models for the world's biggest agricultural producers
China Crop - Are you prepared for an extreme loss year?
Pensions & Ageing
Bridging the senior services gap
The Pot of Gold in Old: Funding and insuring ageing populations
Voluntary pension programmes critical
The road ahead in takaful
Think Tank
Life Settlements can be quite a gamble
View from India
Reinsurance gets a push
GIF in London
Building resilience where it matters
Training Focus
Prevailing through humanity
InsurTech
InsurTech and the customer promise
Re-imagining risk
Is your agent a rogue?
Asian
GIAJ: Delivering insurance with the "Omotenashi" spirit
Asia: Around 40 nominees enter 21st Asia Insurance Industry Awards final round
Asia: Call for "roaming" health coverage for migrant workers
Australia: Private health insurance - Tax penalty losing bite
Brunei: Actuarial Society launched
China: Health insurance sales hit by crackdown on universal products
Hong Kong: Startup app firm targets agents & advisers
India: RI market to grow at CAGR of 11-14% for next 5 years
Indonesia: Regulator mulls ways to extend microinsurance reach
Japan: Life insurers unhurried about investing in foreign bonds
South Korea: Average life sum assured flat at about US$42K in 2016
Malaysia: Insurance institute graduates can pursue higher learning at Malaysia University of Science and Technology
Malaysia: Insurance associations deny imposing fees on hospitals
Nepal: Number of life insurers expands by 6 since July to 15
New Zealand: Competition regulator wary of coordinated effects in proposed Vero-Tower merger
Philippines: 50% of ridesharing operators take up required insurance
Singapore: Sterling Knight joins large employee-owned insurance group
Taiwan: Regulator urged to act boldly to promote insurance access
Vietnam: Insurers welcome majority, even 100%, foreign participation
Global
Global insurance M&A at lowest volume in two years - Clyde & Co
CAT bond market hits series of historical highs - Aon
Corporate Risk Management
Asia: Towards regional disaster risk management
Product Bytes
People on the move
The incumbent vs the disruptor: How much has changed?
Loss of Indian science was a gain for the Indian insurance industry
COVER STORY - Reinsurance Expectations
COVER STORY - Consultants’ Roundtable
It is hard to see your own flaws, which is why the consultant is such an important figure in any successful business. In a thought leadership roundtable organised by Asia Insurance Review, consultants from three major firms gave their views on what...
COUNTRY PROFILE - Malaysia
Addressing the protection gap will continue to be a key focus area for Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), says Mr Yoon Yew Khuen, Director of Insurance Development, in an exclusive interview with Asia Insurance Review where he stresses the need to bring to...
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INTERVIEWS
Since opening their sole international branch in Singapore 10 years ago, Turkish national reinsurer Milli Re has been doing good business across Asia Pacific. Mr Chew Kwok Choong, CEO, gives us his insight on the markets in Asia, and Milli...
GENERAL INSURANCE - Agriculture
Given the serious complexities of agricultural risks, academia and the insurance industry need to work hand-in-hand to meet the challenges, says Dr Laurent Marescot from RMS.
LIFE & HEALTH - Pensions & Ageing
The rapid ageing of many of Asia’s nations is definitely a challenge. Mr Georgio Mosis from RGAx Asia examines innovative ways to meet the ageing populations’ fast-emerging health and wellness needs.
INSIGHTS - InsurTech
How can InsurTechs evolve to deliver on their promises to customers? Ms Lerk-Ling Chang of Guidewire Software explores.
CORPORATE RISK MANAGEMENT
Emerging threats such as cyber, climate change, health and urbanisation, are challenging businesses and insurers. Mr Peter Cheesman of Aon Benfield Australia discusses the changing risk landscape from an insurance perspective.
It’s September. Summer holidays are over. Everyone must have had a break to catch the second wind to go for that fierce sprint towards the end of the year to achieve positive results for a year that is proving tougher than expected, drifting...
We live in a world today that is more connected than ever before. Similarly, the interdependency of global businesses today brings about unique challenges for insurers. It is no longer enough to develop generic solutions. Instead, we must be able to...
Bermuda reinsurer Partner Re will marry its technical heritage with greater client-centricity, says Mr James Beedle, Head of Asia-Pacific & CEO of Partner Reinsurance Asia.
More insurers are recognising the importance of cognitive technology.But what are the five basic questions to be asked before starting this journey? Mr Kenny Hay of IBM ASEAN offers the answers.
Reinsurers play an increasingly important role in most insurance markets in Asia and each year the expectations grow. So this year, in our coverage to kick start the renewal season with Monte Carlo, we polled a team of “seven wise”...
Significant changes are afoot in Malaysia’s insurance industry as the regulator seeks to enhance the business environment, deepen the penetration rate and resilience of the market. Its potential for growth remains high with the...
Malaysia’s general insurance sector reported sluggish growth for a second year running, stalled largely by economic headwinds. But insurers are unfazed as they set their sights on embracing market liberalisation and disruption, while noting...
Mrs Indrani Sugathadasa, Chairperson of IBSL, outlines the busy agenda of the supervisory body with the numerous projects lined up, including a National Insurance Day for Sri Lanka.
Despite initial hiccups when RBC came into effect last year, the industry has now adapted to the changes and is looking at a sustained growth momentum.
As part of the coverage for the IUMI Annual Conference in Tokyo this month, Mr Matt Cannock of Markel International Singapore looks at the marine scene today with oversupply being the same bane facing both the shipping and insurance industries.
Shipowners and charterers continue to face growing costs and operating expenses in an increasingly litigious environment.Mr Alvin Looi and Mr Steven Cockburn from North P&I Club, look at the appeal of FD&D Insurance.
To speak of the ageing market as an opportunity for insurers is an understatement. Ms Raquel Gonzalez of Swiss Re says it is a major market that the industry cannot afford to miss.
Retirement security will increasingly depend on voluntary pension systems as the world population ages, says a report by the Global Aging Institute. Mr Thomas Cheong of Principal International identifies the key elements that make these schemes...
Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan bin Abdul Rahman of Munich Reinsurance Company (Retakaful), looks at the taawun’ concept in takaful with its room for further development.
Mr Ronald Klein of The Geneva Association gives an update on the Life Settlement industry, where investors are pitted against policyholders who may have an advantage of knowing about their health via cheaper genetic tests today.
We bring you a quick round-up of the experience of some of the foreign reinsurers with approved branch offices in India in the 1 April renewals this year, and highlight their vision for the market.
There is a need to improve the resilience of not just society, but the natural world too. This was one of the key discussions at the IIS Global Insurance Forum which took place in July in London.
Insurance fraud risk abounds and there are many perpetrators. Messrs Reuben Khoo and Saket Bhartia of Ernst & Young Advisory Pte Ltd, focus on the role of agents and zoom in on the ways agents can commit fraud.
Amid all the news of change and disruption every day, there are some things in Japan that will remain unchanged, said Mr Noriyuki Hara, Chairman of the General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ), as the association celebrates its 100th...
Around 40 of Asia’s best executives or companies in the insurance sector have been shortlisted for the finals of the 21st Asia Insurance Industry Awards (AIIA), which is organised by Asia Insurance Review.
As countries expand health care services for the covered population, they also need to guarantee the same health coverage for their citizens working in foreign countries, as well as for foreign residents, says Mr Eduardo Banzon, principal health...
With the entry of InsurTech startups in Singapore, has the way insurance is transacted been altered significantly? What does disruption bring for the traditional advisory model and will the industry see InsurTechs replace face-to-face selling?...
Asia Insurance Review caught up with Mr Tapan Singhel, MD & CEO, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company, who was recognised as a LinkedIn Power Profile for the third consecutive year – a hat trick! In this exclusive, the insurance...