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- February 24 2025
Nepal’s Himalayan Re to generate ‘positive’ FY24 underwriting margins: AM Best
Rating agency affirms financial strength rating of B+ (Good) and a long-term issuer credit rating of bbb- (Good), with a stable outlook.
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- February 24 2025
Exclusive: Axa XL names Alok Shukla as India reinsurance branch CEO
Shukla will join from Munich Re on April 1, with ex-CEO Joseph Augustine supporting the transition as senior advisor until the end of March.
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- February 24 2025
Munich Re names Hanh Nguyen head of treaty P&C underwriting for Southeast Asia, India
Nguyen has been deputy head since July, and will succeed Joachim Zagrosek on March 1.
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- February 24 2025
WTW hands Joule-Tobias Howard new role as lead fac broker in Asia
He has been with the broker for almost eight and a half years, and was most recently head of pacific property for Asia.
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- February 21 2025
Hyundai Insurance’s FY24 underwriting income slumps 22% to US$245m
Commercial business' underwriting income more than doubles, while long-term lines grow by 247.6%.
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- February 21 2025
DB Insurance underwriting profit up 4.5% to US$1.1bn
Underwriting profit went up only because of the commercial line performance that saw a US$71m profit compared with US$85m loss last year.
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- February 21 2025
Samsung Fire & Marine’s expects ‘no impact’ on profits, capital after rejig: report
Samsung Life is seeking to make the South Korean non-life insurer its subsidiary and clarified that it has no plans to expand its holdings.
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- February 20 2025
India’s insurance regulator forms committee to review proposed reforms: reports
Committee, which has already held its first meeting, is being led by former State Bank of India chairman Dinesh Khara.
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- February 20 2025
Chubb Malaysia appoints ex-Olympian Danil Bugakov as P&C head
Bugakov, who represented Uzbekistan at the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games, joins having spent over 11 and a half years with Hannover Re.
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- February 20 2025
Markel names Alicia Leong head of marine liabilities in Singapore
She joins from Munich Re Specialty – Global Markets, Syndicate, where she spent close to 10 years as a marine liability underwriter.
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- February 19 2025
Howden Re taps Axa’s Emily Lo for Asia head of analytics role
Lo was general insurance pricing and product development director at Axa Hong Kong and Macau, having joined the company over eight and a half years ago from Swiss Re.
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- February 19 2025
Tokio Marine Holdings promotes 2 vice president directors amid vast reshuffle
Senior managing directors Kenji Okada and Kichiichiro Yamamoto will take up their new roles as of April 1.
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- February 18 2025
Labuan Re names Zaid Aziz Ibrahim new CEO
Malaysian reinsurer also appoints Melissa Karim as acting head of underwriting.
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- February 18 2025
AIG Japan in good stead with robust capitalisation, liquidity: S&P Global
Rating agency upgrades outlook from stable to positive, while affirming A+ rating.
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- February 18 2025
Swiss Re CorSo adds Aristya Wu as underwriter to APAC trade finance, working capital solutions team
Singapore-based Wu joins from Allianz Trade having also worked for Liberty Specialty Markets, Aon and AIA.
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- February 18 2025
Aon appoints Jennifer Richards as Asia Pacific CEO
Richards will take up the role vacated by Anne Corona and will relocate from Australia to Singapore in the coming months.
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- February 17 2025
Seoul Guarantee scales down IPO valuation by 39% to US$1.5bn: reports
Korean surety and credit insurer reduces its expected offer price range to US$18-22 per share from US$27-36.
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- February 17 2025
Vietnamese coffee farmers receive first-ever payout from Willis’ parametric policy
The risk transfer solution, backed by the Natural Disaster Fund and in partnership with Bao Minh Insurance, uses satellite data to measure rainfall levels in the country’s coffee-growing regions.
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- February 17 2025
Increasing costs, reduced profitability main challenge for SMEs in Hong Kong and Singapore: QBE
In Hong Kong, staff acquisition and retention and labour shortage is the second biggest concern for 50% of SMEs, while in Singapore, 56% of respondents are worried about sales growth and reduced customer spending.
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- February 17 2025
MS&AD accelerates, while Tokio Marine, Sompo see overseas topline growth moderate in Q3 FY24
MS&AD’s foreign subsidiaries grew NWP by a combined 25%, in contrast to the 1.2% growth posted by Tokio Marine’s international non-life businesses and 0.8% by Sompo’s overseas arms.
