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Insurance Literacy
Insurance as a critical component of financial literacy
Sustained effort required to improve insurance literacy
The case for financial literacy in Australian schools
Better financial literacy and insurance awareness
Working towards more inclusive financial literacy
View from India
Surety insurance and the regulator
General
Adoption of Indian crop insurance remains low
Bancassurance faces the digital test
Taiwan
Insurance regulation for a mature market
A mature but shrinking life insurance market
Insurance market faces uphill battle amid worst COVID outbreak
Reinsurers achieve solid performance amidst uncertainty
Rising COVID claims stall non-life momentum
InsurTech boom incoming
Ageing Taiwan and insurance
Insurers turn cautious on real estate investments
Insurance implications of new private pension scheme
Gearing up for 'family doctors'
Pandemic: A look under the hood
Can parametrics unlock takaful's full potential?
Redefining climate modelling
Quantifying cyber risk
Insurance CFOs look at regulation and reporting standards
Bridging the insurer-customer gap through technology
Asian
Australia/New Zealand: Talent sought in underwriting and broking
Indonesia: Life insurance premium income dips in 1Q2022
Pakistan: Regulator to develop risk-based capital regime for insurance sector
Risk
Utilities struggle to insure new coal power
Mental health support to be part of climate action plans
Industrial cyber security spending will hit $36bn
Australia: Broker urges review of people risk strategies
Hong Kong: Chubb launches new insurance plans for individuals and groups
Hong Kong: OneDegree launches home insurance covering traditional and LGBTQ+ families
Singapore: AIA introduces shariah-compliant funds to ILPs
People on the move
MARKET PROFILE - Taiwan
THE NEXT PANDEMIC
We asked a number of insurance leaders to answer the question: Can you pick five ways in which the insurance industry will be better prepared to face the next pandemic when it arrives? Read responses from them.
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CHINA
Chinese insurers’ real estate investments have turned sour, crashing their profits. Insurers, like many other asset managers, have now become shy of investing in the Chinese real estate sector.
How different the world looks going into the second half of the year compared to the first.
As insurance and reinsurance events around the world return to ‘in person’ from ‘virtual’, the most important event in the APAC reinsurance calendar opens for bookings.
People look at financial management in terms of saving and investing through banking and capital markets. It is equally important to pay attention to wealth protection.
Financial literacy and insurance awareness, especially in societies like India, needs a little out-of-the-box strategy. The pandemic delivered shock-therapy and the response was tremendous.
New research commissioned the Financial Basics Foundation shows it is time to build financial knowledge among students and reconsider how fundamental financial concepts can be taught in schools.
Extreme heatwaves and flooding in different parts of the country have affected standing crops resulting in huge losses to farmers and severely impacting the food supply chain.
The bancassurance distribution model is facing huge challenges from the digital space and ecosystems that are increasingly appealing to today’s technology-driven marketplace.
Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission Insurance Bureau’s Ms Chiung-Hwa Shih spoke with Asia Insurance Review about how the regulator is working to create a better insurance ecosystem.
The Taiwan life insurance industry has been described as mature and competitive due to market consolidation in the past decade and regulators playing a very active role.
The year 2022 will remain challenging for the local insurance industry which has already posted three consecutive years of contraction in premium income.
China’s new private pension scheme aims to tackle the issue of the ageing population and lift the burden on the country’s state pension plan.
The core of health maintenance in China lies in connecting insurance and medical care, using family doctors to create a bridge that connects payer with provider.
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Salaam Takaful has launched a parametric-based crop takaful solution. Could it represent the way forward?
Climate models have long been a staple in the insurance industry. An Australia-based start-up is using machine learning and AI to bring modelling to the next level.
A US-based cyber risk solutions provider has approached cyber risk and cyber modelling from a new angle.
From IFRS17 to ESG commitments, there is no shortage of tasks keeping CFOs on their toes under the watchful eyes of regulators. CFOs are also expected to be well-informed about developments in technology.
The top five jobs in the Australian insurance field which employers want to fill are those of claims assessors, SME underwriters, contact centre agents, brokers and technical claims managers.
The Indonesian Life Insurance Association (AAJI) says that the sector saw a fall in revenue in the first quarter of 2022, which was driven by a shift in consumers’ perspective on buying life insurance.
The Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has formed a technical working group to develop a preliminary model for a risk-based capital regime for the insurance sector. This work is to be completed by 30 June 2022.
Chubb has announced the launch of two new insurance plans, My Accident Guard for individuals and Enterprise Employees Accident & Illness Benefits for SMEs in Hong Kong SAR.
OneDegree Hong Kong has launched a its new OneDegree Home Insurance plan that will cover traditional families, opposite-sex cohabiting partners and LGBTQ+ families – same-sex married couples and cohabiting partners.
AIA Singapore has launched the AIA Shariah Global Diversified Fund which will be made available to customers through several investment-linked plans (ILPs) to meet the growing demand amongst Muslim customers.