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- February 12 2025
Opinion: With fires, floods ripping through limits, will carriers get with the program?
Insurers handed wake-up call after LA fires and Queensland floods usher in 2025.
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- February 3 2025
Asia Pacific leads the way in Chubb’s 2024 top line growth: Greenberg
Region was Chubb’s standout P&C performer, with net written premium growth of 22% compared with a year earlier.
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- January 24 2025
30 years after Kobe earthquake, Japan seeks to improve data amid ‘megaquake’ warning
Space agency signs deal to estimate extent of damage to buildings caused by earthquakes using high-definition satellite images.
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- January 21 2025
With US$100bn losses now the norm, rising attachment points create new dynamic for cat programs
Scale of nat cat losses needed to turn the market continues to rise as structural changes in reinsurance programs bed in across Asia Pacific.
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- January 14 2025
Asian IP insurance market poised for growth as legislations evolve
Emergence of South-East Asia as a manufacturing hub, and the rise of AI, driving demand for protection, observers say.
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- January 9 2025
Opinion: Booming MGAs can no longer be ignored, but regulatory spectre looms
MGAs must demonstrate robust risk selection and underwriting capability as regulators train their guns on the sector.
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- December 20 2024
The heat is on for India: climate change, rapid urbanisation set to weigh on BI losses
The country's business interruption insurance market is set to face challenges from heat stress and urban flooding.
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- December 17 2024
Energy transition needs pragmatism over good intentions, says WTW’s Au
The broker’s regional climate practice lead calls for a nuanced approach which recognises the realities of moving to net zero within realistic time frames.
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- December 6 2024
IFRS 17 readiness and implementation “not fit for purpose” for some APAC players
There are “specific pockets” where problems with IFRS 17 are still manifest in the Asia market, including aspects of reporting.
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- November 26 2024
Nexus seeks profit above volume as it eyes growth in A&H reinsurance in Asia
Underlying demand for the product remains a driving force propelling the market across the region, says managing director Peter Slot.
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- November 22 2024
Opinion: Will generative AI be a game-changer when it comes to risk modelling?
Algorithms can, in theory, be trained to create predictive models to analyse satellite imagery of cat-affected regions across Asia or forecast a typhoon’s trajectory as well as estimate potential damage and identify high-risk areas.
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- November 18 2024
Modellers step up efforts on flood models amid rising secondary peril risk in APAC
Verisk and Moody’s RMS indicate they are listening to the concerns of the market and have laid out plans to “close the gap”.
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- November 7 2024
Miller Insurance sets sights on expansion in Japan and South Korea as it continues to plough its APAC furrow
The broker is opening soon in South Korea and plans to “build pretty deep there”, and has some other plans in other territories to go too, said Ron Whyte.
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- November 7 2024
SIRC diary: The AI monster
The market is already seriously taking a technology that now seems beyond any doubt to have a profoundly transformative impact on all our lives.
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- November 4 2024
SIRC diary: Think Small
Given Asia's huge population and prospects for continued economic growth, it remains the case that insurance penetration rates across a swathe of product lines remain too low.do it
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- November 1 2024
SIRC diary: Stormy weather
Flooding, of course, is nothing new, but even to the most casual observer, it would now appear unarguable that the severity and intensity of flood losses is a serious problem
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- October 29 2024
Tokio Marine-backed ICEYE plans continued rollout across Asia as demand for satellite risk data continues
Appetite for granular catastrophe-related information is now crucial in a market keen to keep a greater handle on cat exposures.
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- October 25 2024
Opinion: Are we finally transitioning to a new era for energy risks?
It’s important to mind the downsides when we think of the hard choices that need to be made on the road to net-zero.
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- October 10 2024
Hurricane Milton’s strength and track makes a revision of APAC renewals a near certainty
Insured losses from the “catastrophic” storm is predicted to top US$60bn as it heads for populous Tampa, which will complicate the upcoming renewals.
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- October 9 2024
Alternative risk solutions on the table for non-modelled perils at 1.1 renewals
The APAC reinsurance market is transitioning from a market of corrections to a market of solutions, Tony Gallagher, CEO, Asia Pacific, Guy Carpenter tells InsuranceAsia News.
