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- January 12 2022
Howden Re hires APAC treaty director
Richard Pike is returning to broking after a decade with Berkley Re.
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- January 7 2022
Demand for Asia M&A cover builds momentum
The W&I insurance market has bright prospects after a whirlwind end to the last quarter of 2021.
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- January 4 2022
Asia cat capacity held firm at 1.1 renewals: Gallagher Re
Loss free XOL property programs saw flat to low single digit risk adjusted pricing.
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- January 3 2022
Tokio Marine appoints Asia CEO
Masahito Hirai has switched from the firm's Malaysia operations to be based in Singapore.
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- December 31 2021
China Life (Overseas) eyes Asia expansion: Moody’s
The Shenzhen-based SOE already has operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Indonesia.
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- December 31 2021
HSBC gets regulatory nod to buy out China life JV
Regulatory approval comes around 18 months after the deal was first announced in May 2020.
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- December 28 2021
APAC Broker M&A 2021 review
The last year saw a host of regional deals both large and small across insurance and reinsurance.
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- December 16 2021
Australia’s cyclone risk pool a first step
The US$7bn reinsurance scheme needs to be backed up by other initiatives to address a rapidly changing risk environment.
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- December 14 2021
Alex Yip becomes Hong Kong CIB chairman
The Lockton Greater China chief executive takes over from Patrick Chan.
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- December 14 2021
FWD to raise US$1.4bn via private placement
Investors reportedly include Swiss Re as the life insurer moves planned IPO from NYSE to Hong Hong.
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- December 14 2021
Swiss Re’s Victor Kuk on partnerships, claims and automation
The head of P&C reinsurance for South-East Asia, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea, looks ahead to 2022.
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- December 10 2021
Generali eyes increasing India JV stakes: report
The Future Group has been looking to divest its stakes in the P&C and life JVs for around 18 months.
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- December 10 2021
Argenta’s Lloyd’s China exit puts spotlight on costs, scale
Broker tells IAN poorer margins are squeezing some players out who can write Chinese business elsewhere.
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- December 8 2021
AIF 2021: Hong Kong is China’s dual circulation ‘gateway’
Executives from AIA, HSBC and Axa weighed in on the city's role as a risk management hub.
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- December 6 2021
WTW acquires aviation broker Aerosure
The company was established in 2009 following a restructuring of Willis’s Pacific aerospace business.
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- December 1 2021
Australia ups state flood mitigation funding by US$35m
Applications opened this week to access money from the country's National Flood Mitigation Infrastructure Program.
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- November 30 2021
PIC 2021: Asia’s L&H market faces climate change hit
The region's life and health markets face a massive protection gap which experts say is being made worse by a warming planet.
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- November 30 2021
Malaysia takaful premiums show strong H1 growth: MTA
Despite Covid-19 challenges, the family takaful market — which includes life — saw 46.7% annual premium growth to US$1.1bn.
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- November 25 2021
New Zealand’s Tower sees net profit climb 72% in FY2021
The frequency of large house claims, predominantly driven by fires, continued to increase in the second half of the year.
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- November 24 2021
UK competition authority approves Gallagher/Willis Re deal
The US$3.25bn sale received phase 1 approval from the London-based antitrust watchdog.
