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- August 26 2025
Australia home loan guarantee plan risks soaring house prices, outstripping LMI gains: ICA
Industry lobby calls for scheme to be targetted at buyers who genuinely need it to avoid the effective nationalisation of the lenders mortgage insurance (LMI) market.
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- August 26 2025
Zurich Malaysia promotes Yuan Feng Hoo to chief pricing actuary
Hoo, who has also been handed head of technical excellence role, has previously held multiple P&C leadership positions with the insurer.
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- August 26 2025
Aon Re hands Lin Mun Lee client manager role in Malaysia
She previously spent almost a decade with Aon reinsurance Malaysia as a treaty broker.
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- August 26 2025
AUB Group’s profit rises 31% after ‘pivotal’ 2025
AUB said it made a net profit of AU$180.1 million (US$116.7 million) in 2025.
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- August 26 2025
QBE taps veteran Stephen Geisler to succeed Ronak Shah as South Asia CEO
Marsh's Ross Bethell has also been appointed as head of partnerships for Asia, with both set to report to QBE Asia CEO Rob Kosova.
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- August 25 2025
Korea’s Lotte Insurance in regulatory crosshairs: reports
Regulator highlights the PE-backed insurer’s failure to manage liquidity risks, declining K-ICS ratio, poor management performance evaluations and investment performance.
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- August 25 2025
Vietnam braces for Typhoon Kajiki, but losses set to be less than Yagi
PVI Insurance chairman Duong Thanh Danh says the typhoon is forecast to hit areas that are less industrialised than those affected by Typhoon Yagi last year.
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- August 25 2025
Sunshine P&C’s H1 COR improves to 98.8%; underwriting profit up 42%
Beijing-headquartered insurer's GWP was US$3.5bn, up 2.5% year-on-year, as non-motor lines posted strong growth.
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- August 25 2025
Amid breakout year, Willis supercharges Japan team as broker eyes a bigger piece of the pie
Head of Japan Roy Nakazawa tells InsuranceNews Asia about hiring 22 professionals this year across risk and analytics, facultative reinsurance, marine lines as well as business development, large accounts and claims functions.
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- August 25 2025
Aon promotes Richard Tan to chief commercial officer for Singapore
Tan has been at Aon for almost seven years and was most recently head of growth and DAU for the Lion City.
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- August 23 2025
Axa XL India hires Bipin Titus as senior underwriter
Titus joins AXA XL India after a decade at ICICI Lombard.
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- August 22 2025
Global expansion ‘credit positive’ for Asia’s reinsurers: AM Best
US and Europe have become a vital source of premium growth and diversification for Asian reinsurers.
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- August 22 2025
Japan to create new insurance regulator to strengthen oversight: reports
Financial Services Agency will be reorganised to create a separate Asset Management and Insurance Supervision Bureau in FY26, local media reports say.
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- August 22 2025
Regina Wiedmann promoted to Zurich Insurance’s CFO for Japan P&C
Wiedmann has relocated from her previous role with Zurich in Singapore to Tokyo following the appointment.
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- August 22 2025
Berkley names Kenneth Cheong as deputy head of marine for Asia
Singapore-based Cheong was most recently underwriting manager for marine cargo at HDI Global for nearly 12 years.
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- August 22 2025
Opinion: A bruising year lies ahead for APAC’s underwriters
Flush with capacity and brokers in control, the market is likely staring at an extended period of softening.
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- August 21 2025
MG Non-Life’s bridge insurer set for launch as labour union agrees to 55% employee retention: report
Yebyeol Non-life, the temporary insurer set up to manage the troubled carrier's insurance contracts, is likely to be launched next month following an agreement with the labour union.
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- August 21 2025
Favourable rating environment to persist for Australian insurance buyers: Marsh
Property premium decreases in Australia have outpaced every other region globally as clients benefit from intense competition and improving loss ratios.
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- August 21 2025
Allianz Commercial appoints Tom Gilmore as head of farm underwriting in Australia
Sydney-based Gilmore, who has been with Allianz for six years, takes charge as a review and simplification of the insurer’s agri product is underway.
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- August 21 2025
ZhongAn interim profit soars as underwriting gains, COR drops to 95.6%
The Chinese online insurer reported underwriting profit of US$90m, up 109% year-on-year.
