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Opinion: China’s flood defences must be combined with insurance
Extreme flooding in Henan highlights the importance of a functioning risk transfer market.
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Opinion: China’s flood defences must be combined with insurance
Extreme flooding in Henan highlights the importance of a functioning risk transfer market.
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Lloyd’s Japan eyes recovery after GWP sinks in 2020
New rules allow market players at Lloyd’s Japan to negotiate binders with Singapore.
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Generali Asia casualty head joins QBE Hong Kong
IAN has learned that Kelvin Woo is now head of corporate underwriting amid a wider specialty revamp.
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New Zealand seeks feedback on interim insurer solvency standards
Stakeholders will have until October 1, 2021 to share their views with the central bank.
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Aon to pay Willis Towers Watson US$1bn break fee as merger abandoned
Aon's CEO Greg Case cites "impasse" with US DoJ as antitrust trial loomed.
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Berkley Re Asia chief adds Australia CEO role to mandate
Glen Riddell is expected to assume the dual role before the end of the year.
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Generali’s Leonardi on Malaysia M&A and the evolution of distribution
The Hong Kong-based Asia head says there is a greater demand for digitalisation and innovation.
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Central Re keeps positive underwriting result, eyes overseas expansion
The Taiwan-based reinsurer is set to continue expansion into Europe, the Middle East and South-East Asia.
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Asia’s renewable projects poised to squeeze capacity
The region is set for US$200bn of investment in wind farms over the next five years and often in nat cat prone areas.
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Asia’s energy insurers eye green hydrogen boom
New plants and pipelines worth billions of US dollars will need innovative risk solutions.
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Australia’s insurers retain more risk as rates rise
Despite steep rises on loss-affected lines, reinsurance wordings and conditions are largely unchanged.
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Insurers consider potential solutions in response to the shifting regulatory environment for Asia’s insurance industry.
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Insurance CEOs are confident digital investment can fuel growth despite a prolonged Covid-19 recovery.
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The disaster has been a wake up call to risk modellers as climate change hovers over the horizon.
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Digital insurers lead return to growth in India
Figures for H1 2021 show an uptick of 14% compared to last year.
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Asia P&C (re)insurers see market cap rebound
Top 20 listed APAC (re)insurers valued at US$155 billion by mid-2021 — a 15% increase from a year ago.
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Indonesia’s Covid resurgence threatens recovery
P&C premiums were up by 4.2% in the first four months of the year.
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Japan P&C insurers grow overseas premiums
But Tokio Marine, MS&AD and Sompo still reported weaker international profits.
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Acko is back as India’s growth champion
The digital motor and health insurer has more than doubled its book in 2021.
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Singapore P&C growth to defy lockdown
General insurance premiums were up by 4.3% in the first quarter of 2021.
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Water shortages: an underappreciated risk
Andrew Vigar, AXA XL
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Generali Asia casualty head joins QBE Hong Kong
IAN has learned that Kelvin Woo is now head of corporate underwriting amid a wider specialty revamp.
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Berkley Re Asia chief adds Australia CEO role to mandate
Glen Riddell is expected to assume the dual role before the end of the year.
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Chin Feng set to leave Aon Hong Kong — sources
IAN understands the director will leave the broker in September.
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Swiss Re’s Anna Lee handed HK, Taiwan P&C client markets role
Lee starts in September and continues as head of new business development, P&C reinsurance SID.
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IAG appoints Zurich’s Tim Plant as chief insurance & strategy officer
Justin Delaney to replace Plant as head of Zurich's Australia and NZ general insurance operations.
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Marsh appoints WTW’s Indonesia head as South Asia client chief
Luke Ware will relocate from Jakarta to Singapore as he takes up the new role in Q4.
Improving risk management in India
Rohit Boda, J.B. Boda