GIA's 50th Anniversary: Fostering confidence, 50 years on
A 60th Anniversary View: Cautious optimism for Indonesia's general insurance growth
Leadership in the new world
43 finalists vie for the 20th Asia Insurance Industry Awards in October
Heroes of the last 20 years
Victory Salute to Australia's Best!
EAIC
Disruption & Innovation: What counts is (still) the customer
Reinsurance
Where goes the Reinsurance World?
Exciting future for those who can deliver
Reinsurance market continues to favour buyers
South Asia: A commonwealth of reinsurers emerging
Monte Carlo News: Industry wavers between cautious optimism and pragmatism
Efficiencies are key as market struggles to shake off softening rates
Indonesia
Still a star attraction in Asia
Non-life: Aiming high
Life insurance: What it takes to win
Macau
Interview with a Regulator: Promoting a sound risk culture
Marine
Maritime sector faces evolving risks
Autonomous ships - Redefining the industry?
LAMP Asia: Value of field leaders critical to success of industry
Life Insurance Disruption: Do life insurers have what it takes to innovate?
Regulation Feature
Regulatory updates
Actuarial Focus
Behavioural economics and insurance: An actuary's view
20th AAC: Asian actuaries are a hot commodity
Data and Analytics
Managing the Financial Cost of Risk and Uncertainty: From Transactional Analytics to Strategic Advisory
IT in Insurance
Insurance brokerage in the era of connected customers
The age of mobile and millennials: A new frontier
Decoding political risk management
ARRC 2016: People, private and public collaboration vital to combat risk
Tackling underinsurance: The story of the Indian Railways passenger travel insurance scheme
Asian
Asia: Regulatory reforms shaping competitive dynamics in reinsurance
Asia: FM Global constructs Asia's first-of-a-kind training facility in Singapore
Australia: ANZIIF revolutionises insurance learning
Australia: Parliamentary inquiry into life insurance
Bangladesh: Regulator shelves new management expense limit
Bhutan: GIC Bhutan Re spreads its wings
Cambodia: Chinese credit insurer planning to enter market
China: More new insurers approved in inland provinces
China: New rules in place to curb short- and mid-term life insurance products
Hong Kong: Swiss Re receives general insurance licence
Hong Kong: Peak Re increases capital by US$100 mln
Hong Kong: Finalists of HK Insurance Awards 2016
India: ICICI Prudential Life's IPO attracts 10x subscription rate
India: Govt to release framework for systemically important FIs
Indonesia: Allianz and Maybank in 10-year bancassurance deal
Japan: Proportion of new insurance contracts with quake cover hits record
South Korea: Mixed 1H profit results for insurance industry
South Korea: Not clear if insurance covers Hanjin Shipping's failure - Marsh
Macau: Gross insurance premiums surged 54% to US$1.3 bln in 1H
Malaysia: New life business premiums surge 21% to US$594 mln in 1H
Malaysia: General insurers pay "staggering" motor claims in 1H
Philippines: Insurance industry posts strong 76.5% net income growth
Singapore: FWD launches model to sell products directly
Singapore: SRA launches Women in Reinsurance - "WiRE" chapter
Singapore: SAS calls for regulators and industry to collaborate
Singapore: New Premium Payment Framework from 1 Sep
Thailand: Local insurer offers insurance to Pokemon Go players
Global
CCR launches new subsidiary for open market RI business
Greenlight Re Ireland seeks opportunities in Europe and Asia
Microinsurance premium crosses US$800 mln in Latin America and Caribbean
Corporate Risk Management
Asia Pacific risk research institute launches in Singapore
RIMS exploring a presence in Asia
Product Bytes
Events Page
SII Charity Ball
Diary of Events
People on the move
With the disruption in the marketplace, reinsurers need to adopt new approaches, be agile and ambitious to survive the new world order. With rates being an issue, our Cover Story looks at the way reinsurance is brought, the abundance of capital, the need to improve efficiencies to shake off softening rates and how reinsurers are offering new innovations to differentiate themselves to survive.
With the disruption of the market and the way insurance and reinsurance are being bought, reinsurers need to have the courage to face these challenges and find a way to deliver what their customers want. Mr Chris Kershaw of Peak Re elaborates.
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The Monte Carlo Rendezvous has just ended. We bring a quick highlight of this annual meet with a more detailed report to follow next month in our November issue.