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- March 22 2017
Hong Kong Life sold for US$914m
First Origin International, a Hong Kong-based investment firm, has paid HK$7.1b for the city's 10th-biggest insurer.
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- March 22 2017
United India Insurance eyes IPO
The state-owned general insurer will go public after New India Assurance and GIC.
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- March 21 2017
MyCC issue a misunderstanding, says AIA
AIA Malaysia has defended itself from allegations it participated in an anti-competitive agreement in the country.
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- March 21 2017
China leads global insurance growth in 2016
Initial projections show that the Asian economic powerhouse contributed nearly half of the world insurance market.
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- March 21 2017
Taiwan market set to lose up to US$4.9bn
The Taiwanese dollar’s appreciation and insurers’ foreign investment exposure could take a toll on the industry.
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- March 20 2017
KPMG: The New Deal
Driving insurance transformation with strategy-aligned M&A
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- March 20 2017
Regulator lowers punishment against CEOs of Korean insurers
FSS says the penalty against the CEOs is now a precautionary warning, or a notch lower than the one previously announced.
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- March 20 2017
Global M&A activity at lowest level in three years
However, Asian transactions were still robust, with 12 of the top 20 deals by value in 2016 involving an Asian insurer.
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- March 20 2017
Nippon Life plans US$4.4bn M&A investment
Japan's biggest life insurer says it is planning to double its net profit during the next the four years.
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- March 17 2017
Spring 2017
Owning up to risk: Time for Asian companies to get serious
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- March 17 2017
Berjaya Sompo appoints new CEO
The Malaysian insurance company has appointed Tan Sek Kee as its new chief executive officer.
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- March 17 2017
Future Generali India, UCO Bank ink bancassurance deal
The partnership will provide access to the bank’s clients in 3,060 branches across India.
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- March 17 2017
ADB to expand disaster support for Philippines via insurance
The Asian Development Bank is exploring disaster insurance options for one of the countries most vulnerable to natural disasters.
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- March 16 2017
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions: Weathering the storm and speeding up recovery when disaster strikes
Type climate change into a search engine and you’ll find countless articles evidencing the earth’s accelerated warming.
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- March 16 2017
Vietnam’s life sector posts record-high growth
Total life insurance premiums in the first 10 months of last year grew at 37%, the highest in a decade.
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- March 16 2017
Manulife wins first Investment Company WFOE licence in China
The approval will allow the company to provide private assets solutions in China's fast-growing asset management industry.
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- March 16 2017
Indonesia urges insurers to buy government securities
The Financial Services Authority says insurers should help offset the deficit in the state budget.
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- March 15 2017
Singapore’s general insurers hit hard in 2016
Domestic and external headwinds cut growth to a mere 0.6%, according to the General Insurance Association.
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- March 15 2017
Indonesia approves two new reinsurance brokers
The Financial Services Authority has issued operational licences to JLT Reinsurance Brokers and Inare Proteksi International.
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- March 15 2017
Foresea Life chairman resigns
Yao Zhenhua resigned after getting a 10-year prohibition order from China’s insurance regulator.
