Manulife Hong Kong has announced the appointment of Ivan Chan as Chief Agency Officer (CAO) and Tracy Leung as Chief Partnership Distribution Officer (CPDO). Both appointments come as part of the company's ongoing commitment to strongly building its leadership to further expand its distribution capabilities.
Marsh has announced the appointment of Paulo Garcia as Marsh Philippines CEO. He succeeds Ramon Zandueta who has been appointed Marsh Philippines chairman. Both Mr Garcia and Mr Zandueta, who took up their appointments on January 1, 2021, will be based in Manila and report to Marsh South Asia CEO James Addington-Smith.
Aon has announced that Ms Jennifer Law has joined its Asia Pacific capital advisory unit within reinsurance solutions.
SCOR in partnership with CyberCube has adapted its CAT platform to serve its cyber risk assessment needs. The CAT platform is SCOR's internally developed platform designed to manage natural catastrophe risk accumulations.
The 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires in Australia are a wake-up-call demonstrating the extreme effects of climate change according to a new study which examines the factors that caused the disaster.
Willis Towers Watson has introduced two new cyber risk assessment services in response to the findings from its recent cyber claims insights report.
Climate change is likely to cause an uneven shifting of the tropical rain belt - a narrow band of heavy precipitation near the Equator - leading to increased flooding in parts of India according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The General Office of the CBIRC has issued a notice stipulating that with effect from 1 February 2021, qualifying examinations for directors, supervisors and senior management personnel of the insurance industry will be cancelled.
Asia Pacific countries not only managed the pandemic better than the western world in 2020, they are also doing better in terms of political risks according to the latest edition of Aon's Political Risk quarterly.
A record number of small business owners in the UK are planning to close their firms over the coming twelve months, putting the UK on course to lose more than a quarter of a million businesses, according to the latest Small Business Index (SBI) of UK.