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- April 9 2025
HDI promotes James Guardino to underwriting manager for APAC political, credit risk
Singapore-based Guardino was most recently senior underwriter for the line at the industrial insurer.
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- April 7 2025
Munich Re’s Shashank Kaushik joins Bajaj Allianz as head of technical for agri business
Pune-based Shashank was most recently senior underwriter for the reinsurer, focused on key clients across APAC and Africa.
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- April 2 2025
Petronas faces potential US$5m hit from Malaysia pipeline explosion
National energy company’s captive, Energas, provides up to US$18m of cover, IAN understands.
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- April 1 2025
Chubb promotes senior Hong Kong trio
Patrick Wong assumes role of head of global client executive, with Queency Chau and Barry Yu also promoted.
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- April 1 2025
‘Welcome reprieve for buyers’ at 1.4, Japan cat XoL rates down 10-15%: Howden Re
Risk-adjusted rate reductions in Asia Pacific and varied specialty renewal outcomes reflect ‘hard market softening’ at April 1, the broker said in its post-renewal report.
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- March 31 2025
MS Amlin expands in Australia with Sydney office, appoints head of ANZ
New office will be led by Matt Botfield, who joins carrier from Aon.
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- March 31 2025
China Re’s P&C net profit up 69% to US$716m, COR deteriorates to 99.86%
Net profit from domestic primary P&C insurance business quadruples to US$206m.
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- March 31 2025
Myanmar’s protection gap exposed as 7.7-magnitude earthquake death toll tops 1,600
The financial burden from the damage to buildings, airports, roads and bridges, is likely to fall on businesses and the government as insurance penetration in the country remains very low.
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- March 28 2025
7.7-magnitude earthquake rocks Myanmar, leads to road and property damage in Bangkok
Earthquake also shook buildings and triggered evacuations in neighbouring Vietnam and southwest Yunnan province in China.
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- March 28 2025
PICC P&C FY24 underwriting profit drops by 43.9% to US$759m
COR deteriorated from 97.8% to 98.8% due to the impact of severe disasters and accidents, as well as the rise in cost of debt following a decrease in the discount rate.
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- March 28 2025
Exclusive: AIG’s Vivian Chow set to join Berkley Insurance Asia in Hong Kong
Chow was most recently regional construction professional indemnity manager at AIG.
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- March 27 2025
China Pacific Insurance’s P&C underwriting profit falls 35.5% to US$372m in FY24
Underwriting COR deteriorated by 0.9 percentage points to 98.6% due to a loss ratio that worsened to 70.8%.
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- March 27 2025
India infrastructure boom builds reinsurance demand at 1.4
Property, engineering and liability lines see growth, but rates remain flat to down, says Howden’s Prateek Singhal.
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- March 25 2025
South Korea’s P&C insurers’ net income up 3.1% to US$5.8bn in 2024
Insurance income marginally down by 1% to US$5.6bn due to higher loss ratios for motor insurance, according to preliminary statistics from the Financial Supervisory Service.
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- March 25 2025
Specialist Risk Group formally launches in APAC with Singapore hub
Business says it will focus on delivering solutions for difficult and hard-to-place risks, with an emphasis on specialty lines and complex P&C.
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- March 25 2025
Ready for kick off: insurers eye their time in the spotlight as Hong Kong’s Kai Tak opens its doors
As city gears up for rugby Sevens and Coldplay at its new venue, event insurance in Asia Pacific could finally be on the cusp of reaching pre-Covid levels.
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- March 24 2025
WTW taps Ryan Transactional Risk’s Reuben Lee as associate director for broking, regional M&A
Lee had joined as senior underwriter in October following Ryan's acquisition of Transact Risk Partners.
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- March 21 2025
Indonesia’s non-life GWP up 13.8% to US$46.7bn in 2024
Underwriting result for P&C insurance segment decreased more than tenfold to US$666m, while reinsurance saw a US$66.6m loss.
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- March 20 2025
ZhongAn P&C’s underwriting profit drops 24.4% to US$137m in FY24, COR deteriorates to 96.9%
Chinese online insurer’s total GWP for FY24 was US$4.6bn, a 13.3% year-on-year increase.
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- March 18 2025
Howden Private Wealth bolsters APAC team with double leadership promotion
The high net-worth insurance broker has elevated Bryan Pee to Singapore and Malaysia CEO, while Shirley Sy has been named Hong Kong deputy CEO.
