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- September 22 2022
Tokio Marine’s Kosuke Hashimoto starts new IUMI vice president role
TM&NF's marine underwriting manager joins new IUMI president Frédéric Denèfle, Garex managing director, on the committee.
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- September 22 2022
Berkley names Aaron Yip as Singapore CEO
Yip will report to Asia chief executive Shasi Nair and will continue in his role as chief underwriting officer for Asia.
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- September 21 2022
Zenobia Huang to steer WTW Taiwan marine team
Taipei-based Huang has been at the broker since 2015 specialising in hull, P&I and other liability lines.
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- September 20 2022
Aon goes in-house for APAC cyber head and bolsters M&A team
Adam Peckman takes on cyber role covering five territories, while Adrian Chai becomes director, transaction solutions, Asia.
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- September 20 2022
‘Solid’ premium growth to offset claims’ inflation for New Zealand P&C carriers: S&P
The market's average combined ratio to remain in the 87-90% range over the next three years.
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- September 19 2022
Korean Re’s H1 profits tumble 44% on overseas underwriting slide
The combined ratio for international business climbed to 107.4% from 96.3% in H1 2021, while overall GWP grew 10%.
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- September 16 2022
New Zealand on course for record extreme weather claims after US$26m July hit
Total claims at the end of July were US$147m, compared to US$195m in the whole of 2021, according to the ICNZ.
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- September 15 2022
Reinsurance to benefit from US$71m Singapore net-zero grant
MAS' financial industry roadmap 2025 plans to promote insurance risk advisory and alternative risk transfer solutions for Asia.
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- September 14 2022
Lloyd’s crypto coverholder Evertas enters Hong Kong and Australia
The Chicago-based company uses capacity from Arch Insurance to offer cover against theft or loss of blockchain assets.
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- September 14 2022
FWD refiles for Hong Kong IPO
Stock exchange filing revealed that H1 new business reached US$405m, up 25% year-on-year.
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- September 13 2022
Eastern Australian floods insured losses reach US$4.33bn: Perils
The figure is around US$960m higher than the data specialist's last analysis, making it the costliest cat loss event in the country ever.
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- September 13 2022
Aon snags Marsh M&A specialist as Asia head of transaction solutions
Xianwei Lee started the role in Singapore this month.
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- September 12 2022
Losses mount from nat cats in Korea, Pakistan, China and India
An earthquake, a typhoon and two serious flooding events are triggering a large volume of claims.
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- September 9 2022
Lloyd’s Asia posts 25% H1 growth but COR deteriorates
Marine and cargo premiums grew for the first time in three years, but the region took a hit from Australian floods.
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- September 8 2022
AUB acquires IAG-owned strata unit in Austagencies build out
Underwriting agency SUU will still get capacity from Insurance Australia Group under a long-term binder agreement.
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- September 7 2022
MS Amlin boosts APAC underwriting and claims with five Singapore hires
Alex Wang, Jason Tan, Srinath Iyer, Kris Gwee and Joash Tan have all joined the team.
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- September 7 2022
Supply squeeze pushing up Asia nat cat treaty pricing
After TMK and Axis Re exits, hardening market drives cedants to alternatives such as ILS, parametric or structured solutions.
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- September 6 2022
Revenues at Hong Kong’s Nova grew 16% in FY 2022
The broker reached a HK$100m revenue milestone due to a number of 'sizeable' construction projects.
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- September 6 2022
Sri Lanka Insurance’s underwriting profits to suffer from inflation: Fitch
The P&C insurer has limited ability to reprice policies due to the economic crisis in the country.
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- September 5 2022
Canopius snaps up Zurich’s Megan Shao to head APAC claims
Shao is based in Singapore and joins following the specialty (re)insurer's strategic restructure.
