From Editor-in-chief
Tan Suee Chieh: Achieving right consumer outcomes in developed life insurance markets
Food for thought - Don't let a Game Changer eat your lunch!
The 2013 IIS Hall of fame Laureate: A bull for his people
Lloyd's: Refereeing the field
Asian aroma tantalises the world again
Asia is darling still
Bright growth outlook despite challenges
Life Focus: Design, pricing and distribution the key for long-term success
Life Focus: Multiple event critical illness products - A forgotten market need?
Agriculture: Food for thought: How to ensure food security for 9 billion people?
Agriculture: China's agriculture insurance market surges ahead
Climate change adaptation and the insurance system
Social media focus: Taking the social leap
Growth assured in 2013
Life insurance: Impressive growth, but more work ahead
General insurance: Looking beyond the past setbacks to a positive outlook
Time to entrench active risk management
Regulators to strengthen consumer protection
Cambodia: Changes afoot with AEC at hand
Africa: A New El Dorado - Africa draws
Health across India
Amendments to Singapore's Insurance Law in force now: Insurers take note
Curtain raiser for specialty risks summit: Mitigating the ripple effect of disasters in Corporate & Speciality risks
Pausing for thought
Attracting and retaining top talent
"We'll all be rooned - or will we?"
Asia:Standard Life to set up new Asia and Middle East hub
Asia:Strategic seminar on RBC in Asia
Asia to see at least US$5 bln insurance takeovers this year
Asia: Launch of ConsultRe as a consultancy
Australia: Premiums for high-risk properties climb
China: Insurers to pay US$23 mln for Ya'an quake
China: AXA to buy 50% of domestic motor insurer for US$631 mln
Hong Kong: Mainlanders increasingly important to domestic life sector
Hong Kong: Govt urged to provide tax exemptions for offshore marine insurers
India: Microinsurance can unlock country's huge insurance potential
Japan: More domestic life insurers to invest in foreign bonds
South Korea: HSBC sells stake in Hana HSBC Life
Malaysia's MAA to sell Indonesian non-life unit
Malaysia: Non-life premiums grows by 8% in 2012
New Zealand: Rebuilding quake-hit Christchurch to cost US$34 bln
Philippines: Starr receives non-life licence
Philippines: Ten non-life insurers forming JVs
Singapore: Life sales increase 9% to US$453 mln in 1Q
Sri Lanka: Premium grows 11% in 2012 to US$708 mln
Thailand: Households take 92% share of CAT fund policies
RIMS opposes proposed tax deduction for reinsurance premiums
Tokio Millennium Re moves from Bermuda to Switzerland
IAIS should recognise IAIGs' internal economic valuation approaches
Diary of events
People on the move
RIMS has delivered an official letter to the US government's House Ways and Means Committee's International Tax Reform Working Group to voice the Society's disagreement with the Administration's Proposed 2014 Budget that includes an effort to eliminate the tax deduction for reinsurance premiums ceded by domestic insurers to their foreign affiliates.
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Tokio Millennium Re (TMR) is planning to redomesticate its place of incorporation from Bermuda to Switzerland in keeping with its long-term strategy to expand its business both geographically and through broader product offerings.
Internationally active insurance groups (IAIGs) said in a survey by The Geneva Association that the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) should aim to recognise the internal economic valuation approaches developed by them to measure risk exposure and assess group capital adequacy.