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- September 3 2025
Chinese insurers surge ahead in global renewable premium race
People’s Insurance Company of China, Ping An Insurance, and Yingda Taihe Property Insurance added over US$200m in new renewable energy premiums between 2023 and 2024, according to Insure Our Future.
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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 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
China Re’s net profit up 11.4% in H1 FY25 even as P&C reinsurance hit by agri slowdown, overseas losses
P&C reinsurance segment, China Re’s largest unit, posted insurance revenue of CNY22.96 billion, down 2.2%, mainly due to weaker domestic agriculture premiums.
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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 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 28 2025
Taiping Re’s profit surges 75% despite flat premiums
China Taiping reported a 12.2% rise H1 FY25 profit led by a sharp rise in reinsurance profitability and improved underwriting margins.
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- August 28 2025
Perils expands real-time insurance industry loss forecasts to Japanese typhoons
Wind-Jeannie platform 'provides a welcome new perspective,' Perils' Japan representative Takashi Goda says.
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- August 28 2025
Peak Re reports 25.1% GWP growth to US$1bn H1 FY25
Reinsurer's revenue also grew by 36.8% to US$661 million compared to the first half of 2024, according to a stock exchange filing by parent company Fosun International.
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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.
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- August 27 2025
South Korea’s non-life insurers’ H1 FY25 net income tumbles 19%
Drop driven by erosions in insurance income, underscoring pressure from rising claims costs across major lines.
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- August 26 2025
Ping An P&C H1 topline up 7%, COR down to 95.2%
Chinese carrier’s premium income increased US$23.6bn.
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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
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 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 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.
