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- September 6 2025
Full Capacity: Rendez-Vous de Septembre – tailwinds blow for cedents
This week's newsletter discusses: • Rebecca Poon's move to Howden • Leadership changes at Australian brokers • Gallagher Re’s Steadfast Re buy • BP Marsh backs Asia pivot • IAG's plans run into antitrust wall • Seadrif's priorities
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- September 5 2025
APAC reinsurers to face margin pressure as market softens: Fitch
Fitch downgrades global reinsurance sector outlook to ‘deteriorating’ for 2026 from neutral a year-ago.
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- September 5 2025
Generali GC&C Asia hires Emma Liu as head of casualty underwriting
Liu, who joins from AIG in Singapore, will relocate to Hong Kong in her new role.
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- September 5 2025
Exclusive: Howden snaps up 40-year Marsh veteran Rebecca Poon
Hong Kong-based Poon, who was managing director at Marsh, has been appointed chief client officer.
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- September 4 2025
MG Non-Life’s bridge insurer starts operations
South Korean regulator transfers all insurance contracts and assets to Yebyeol Non-Life Insurance and all MG Non-Life Insurance operations have been suspended.
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- September 4 2025
Typhoon Wipha, flooding unlocks US$2m Seadrif parametric payout in Laos
Payout was made under the new sovereign parametric insurance policy issued by the Asian risk pool in May, which features an annual aggregate trigger.
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- September 3 2025
Tokio Marine launches green transition underwriting platform
Tokio Marine GX is a fully operational underwriting business offering up to US$500m of capacity on any single risk.
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- September 2 2025
Gallagher Australia taps Marsh veteran Alex Lumby as chief executive
Lumby, who was head of Mercer Marsh Benefits and chief client officer of Marsh Pacific, will succeed Sarah Lyons, who relocated to UK earlier this year, a Gallagher spokesperson told IAN.
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- September 2 2025
Policybazaar for Business expands to UAE, Qatar, Oman, Sri Lanka
Indian reinsurance broker, which offer fac and treaty placements spanning property, marine, liability, cyber and climate-linked risks, seeks to build a pan-Asian and Middle Eastern reinsurance presence, as first reported by IAN.
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- September 1 2025
BP Marsh-backed Pantheon acquires 25% stake in Hong Kong broking startup Fraction
PE firm made a complementary investment to support Pantheon's investment in the Dan Dibden-founded crypto specialist.
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- September 1 2025
MSIG Singapore appoints MSIG Specialty Marine as P&I underwriting agent
Marine specialist MGA will start underwriting P&I risk directly from Singapore from Monday, as first reported by IAN in July.
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- September 1 2025
Aon hires Bonjay Koo as enterprise client leader, Asia Pacific for South Korea
Koo, who joins from Deloitte, will report to Craig Torgius, chief client officer and head of enterprise clients for Asia Pacific, and work closely with Korea CEO Kevin Kim.
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- August 30 2025
Full Capacity: Shifting tides of Asian reinsurance
This week's newsletter discusses Sompo's acquisition of Aspen, Asian leadership changes at QBE, Scor's strategic transfer of its Singapore business, Willis' aggressive entry into the Japanese market, Typhoon Kajiki updates and the shifting tides of Asian reinsurance.
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- August 29 2025
Steadfast snaps up US MGA and wholesale broker Novum Underwriting
Novum will serve as the program development and management platform for the Australian broker's US network, ISU Steadfast.
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- August 29 2025
China Pacific’s P&C underwriting profit up 31% to US$500m in H1 FY25
Underwriting COR was down 0.8 percentage points to 96.3% due to improvements in underwriting expense ratio.
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- August 29 2025
Parametric insurance must simplify to boost public sector adoption: Seadrif’s Benedikt Signer
Executive director of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility outlines its mission to enhance insurance adoption in public sectors by simplifying product design and addressing market gaps.
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- August 28 2025
QBE CFO Inder Singh resigns, to depart for banking role in 2026
Singh will remain with QBE while the company undertakes a search for a new chief financial officer.
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- August 28 2025
‘We don’t need to wait’: Taiping Re eyes wider ILS program after debut cat bond
Hong Kong reinsurer considers other ILS products, such as sidecars, which meet its business and retro strategies, ILS specialists Jeffrey Li and Aaron Lin tell InsuranceAsia News.
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- August 27 2025
Sompo to acquire Aspen for US$3.5bn
Japanese insurer will pay a 35.6% premium for NYSE-listed Aspen shares in the all-cash deal.
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- August 27 2025
PICC P&C underwriting profit surges 45% to US$2bn on motor, property gains
China's large non-life carrier posted a combined ratio of 94.8%, a 1.4 percentage point improvement.
