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- March 13 2025
Exclusive: London P&I Club to dock in Shanghai, sail on Asian wave amid difficult-to-navigate geopolitical storm
Club also saw new tonnage increase in other APAC countries, such as South Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia during last month's renewals.
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- March 12 2025
HDI Global hires Ted Chen as senior risk engineer in Hong Kong
With over 25 years of experience, Chen specialies in fire protection systems engineering and risk management, with a focus on the semiconductor field.
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- March 11 2025
Frontier launches new kidnap, ransom, extortion coverage with Travelers capacity
The MGA will offer the product across APAC with limits of up to US$15m per event and US$30m in aggregate.
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- March 10 2025
Japan P&I confirms key personnel changes amid latest reshuffle
Koji Shikada takes on extended roles as deputy head of underwriting units and general manager of Tokyo underwriting department I, effective from April 1.
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- March 10 2025
Marsh Australia appoints Kevin Duggan as principal
Prior to joining Marsh, Duggan worked at home and auto insurance agency Nsure for almost five years.
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- March 10 2025
Lights, camera, action: specialist MGA seeks to punch above its weight, prove good things come in small packages
Film and event specialist Circles Group, which has offices in Hong Kong and Singapore, plans to grow further into China, South Korea and Singapore.
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- March 7 2025
Gallagher India bolsters trade credit team with new head
Bengaluru-based Bijukumar S., who has developed and managed multiple credit insurance programs across the country, joins the broker as national head of the line.
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- March 6 2025
Hannover Re shakes up Asia L&H leadership with new roles for Soeren Kruse, Niall Mulvey
Kruse, who was former Malaysia CEO, now leads southern and eastern Asia, while Ireland-based Mulvey takes charge of greater China.
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- March 5 2025
Jacquelynn Chuc returns to AIG as A&H regional underwriter manager for Asia
She brings over 20 years of technical underwriting expertise, having served at Chubb Australia and Singapore in various A&H underwriting roles.
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- March 4 2025
Thailand’s Allianz Ayudhya targets 12% premium growth amid product expansion
The carrier will focus on health, SME and home products, while also growing Allianz Commercial's property, engineering, transportation, and liability offerings for large businesses and corporates.
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- March 3 2025
Australian MGA Solution Underwriting rebrands as CFC
London-headquartered specialty MGA plans to launch services in liability and tech, media and intellectual property over the coming months following its acquisition of the Australian specialist in April.
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- March 3 2025
Allianz Commercial appoints Rosa Ficarra as APAC ART head
Ficarra will relocate from London, and be responsible for new and renewal alternative risk transfer (ART) business in Asia and Australia.
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- February 27 2025
Hong Kong’s Nova Insurance H1 FY25 revenue up 8.3% to US$8.1m
Broker expects to record 'very substantial growth' in H2, as revenue from the purchase of Beijing Nova Insurance Services will be counted.
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- February 27 2025
Exclusive: Circles Group hands Julie Quach, Kenneth Tan expanded roles as Asia co-regional directors
Quach is in the process of being appointed Hong Kong responsible officer, while Tan has assumed the role of responsible officer for Singapore.
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- February 25 2025
West P&I, London P&I record strong renewal growth amid market challenges
West P&I achieves mutual tonnage increase to 110 million gross tonnes (GT), while London P&I records 12% rise to 49.3 million GT.
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- February 24 2025
Sompo reshuffles APAC commercial lines team in Singapore, Hong Kong
Kelly Koh, Victoria Soo and Szeto Ophelia will be 'instrumental in driving their respective lines of business across the region', according to the carrier.
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- February 24 2025
Munich Re names Hanh Nguyen head of treaty P&C underwriting for Southeast Asia, India
Nguyen has been deputy head since July, and will succeed Joachim Zagrosek on March 1.
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- February 21 2025
P&I clubs report tonnage growth during renewals despite industry turbulence
Gard, UK P&I and NorthStandard announced successful completion of the 2025 renewal after marine insurers worldwide saw a rise in the number of large claims.
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- February 21 2025
Market gains by large reinsurers drive consolidation in APAC: Guy Carpenter’s Tony Gallagher
Asia Pacific CEO anticipates more legacy deals aimed at eliminating underperforming blocks of business and facilitating strategic growth in the coming years.
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- February 20 2025
Australia set for increased summer rainfall, bushfire risks: Gallagher Re
Likelihood of above-average cloudiness and high ocean temperatures means Australia is expected to have notably above-average minimum temperatures through Q1 2025.
