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- August 25 2017
Troubled waters
More than a quarter of shipping losses during 2016 occurred in the Asian maritime region.
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- August 18 2017
Philippines launches parametric disaster programme
The pilot scheme will provide parametric disaster coverage for 25 at-risk provinces in partnership with World Bank.
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- August 18 2017
Bank Negara on captives
Governor Muhammad bin Ibrahim gave the keynote address at the Asian Captive Conference 2017 in Kuala Lumpur.
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- August 11 2017
Asia’s insurtech edge
Legacy issues are one of the biggest obstacles for insurers in developed markets. But not in Asia.
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- August 11 2017
Asian boards need to take responsibility for cyber
Cybersecurity is too important an issue for senior executives and company boards to ignore.
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- August 4 2017
Reinsurers drawn to Asian growth
Strong underlying growth is a cure for many ills, including the need to worry about "innovation".
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- August 4 2017
China’s asset dilemma
The investment patterns of Chinese life companies such as Anbang continue to raise concerns.
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- July 28 2017
Insurers tasked to fund disaster relief in poor nations
The UK and Germany have pledged to support the development of insurance solutions for disaster risks.
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- July 28 2017
Promise over profits in India
Less than a year after new rules to nurture domestic reinsurance capability, ITI Re is set to quit the business.
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- July 21 2017
Monitoring construction delay
Risk managers are looking for better solutions to protect against delays on construction projects.
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- July 21 2017
Solving the pandemic problem
The systemic nature of pandemic risk poses a challenging problem for the reinsurance industry.
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- July 14 2017
Is the end of QE in sight?
The point may be nearing where even the BoJ starts to retreat from QE, setting yields on a higher course globally.
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- July 14 2017
Protecting against Hong Kong’s typhoon signal 8
Swiss Re has launched the city’s first insurance product to indemnify businesses against losses from a T8 signal.
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- July 7 2017
China overtakes Japan
The outlook for Asia's insurance markets is varied, as China becomes the world's second-biggest premium pot.
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- July 7 2017
Guaranteed to end badly?
Insurers in Asia are taking ever bigger risks to meet increasingly unrealistic guaranteed returns promised to policyholders.
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- June 30 2017
Insurers worry about innovation
Insurers doubt their ability to work with partners outside of the industry and are struggling to bring good people into it.
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- June 30 2017
China’s motor market running out of fuel
Further easing of pricing limits has led to fears of even weaker profitability for non-life insurers.
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- June 23 2017
How insurers are responding to medical innovations
Social changes and medical innovations are pushing health insurers in Asia to design products for new risks.
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- June 23 2017
Reinsurance softening accelerates
Despite predictions that pricing would start to bottom out this year, the opposite is actually happening.
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- June 16 2017
Singapore rocked by Lee family feud
The rift between Lee Kuan Yew's children is threatening the Lion City’s composure.
