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- September 5 2025
Marsh taps WTW’s Ellen Fung as strategic client director
Fung, who also previously spent over two decades at Aon, will be responsible for delivering strategic insights and tailored risk solutions to key clients in Hong Kong.
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- September 5 2025
Hong Kong’s Peak Re to maintain favourable underwriting profitability: AM Best
AM Best has affirmed a financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and long-term issuer credit rating of a- (Excellent) to Peak Re and its subsidiaries, with a stable outlook.
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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
Aon promotes Qin Lu to head of North Asia, Andrew Minnitt to head of Southeast Asia
Pair will expand their current roles to lead the newly-created North Asia and Southeast Asia subregions.
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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 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.
