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- November 4 2021
Malaysian Re CEO Zainudin Ishak talks talent, ESG and flood risk
The reinsurer's recently published 2021 Asean Pulse report throws a spotlight on various industry trends across the region.
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- November 1 2021
Zurich Takaful Malaysia appoints new life CEO
Nazrul Hisham Abd Hamid replaces Mukesh Dhawan as the leader of firm's family takaful operations in the country.
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- October 25 2021
ESG primed for Asia’s insurance mainstream
Sun Life Malaysia has just launched the country’s first investment-linked ESG fund.
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- October 4 2021
Malaysia insurers resilient despite economic uncertainty
Central bank report adds that the financial services industry needs to embrace digitalisation.
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- September 29 2021
HDI Global appoints Asean claims head
Singapore-based Raymond Ong joins the industrial lines insurer from Willis Towers Watson.
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- September 13 2021
Malaysian regulator seeks feedback on bancassurance
The central bank has given stakeholders until September 30 to submit feedback.
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- September 8 2021
IGI appoints APAC financial lines underwriter in Labuan
Manpreet Kaur Gill has previously worked at QBE, AIG and Zurich and will be based in Kuala Lumpur.
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- September 7 2021
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints new Malaysia head
Jack See will relocate to Kuala Lumpur from Singapore and succeeds Juerg Stoll.
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- September 1 2021
South-East Asia’s reinsurers face underwriting challenge
Certain claims are down but pricing remains insufficient to improve profitability.
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- August 24 2021
Nexus appoints Asia head of treaty reinsurance
Tan Chai Foo has joined from Malaysia's Progressive Insurance.
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- August 6 2021
HDI Global’s Silton handed additional role as Malaysia head
The Singapore-based executive takes over from Danh Duong, who will now focus on operations in Vietnam.
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- August 2 2021
Malaysia P&C outlook stable despite Covid headwinds: AM Best
The rating agency expects health insurance to be an important driver of growth.
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- July 29 2021
Swiss Re appoints new Malaysia head
Balasubramanian Nagarajan will lead the reinsurer's operations in the country effective September 1.
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- July 26 2021
Generali’s Leonardi on Malaysia M&A and the evolution of distribution
The Hong Kong-based Asia head says there is a greater demand for digitalisation and innovation.
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- July 21 2021
Malaysia’s P&C market heats up as Liberty bags AmGeneral
The US$540m deal comes on the heels of Generali buying Axa Affin General Insurance.
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- July 19 2021
SE Asia supply chains face delta variant disruption
Standalone pandemic coverage and parametric triggers seen as possible de-risk solutions.
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- July 16 2021
Labuan pushes digitalisation and inclusion
(Re)insurers in the Malaysian financial hub saw GWP rise 6.7% to US$1.6bn in 2020.
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- July 14 2021
Zurich promotes Junior Cho to Malaysia country head
The industry veteran is CEO of the insurer's Malaysia GI arm and succeeds Stephen Clark.
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- July 5 2021
Malaysia plans RBC changes for (re)insurers and takaful firms
The central bank wants to update frameworks to make capital adequacy measures more consistent.
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- June 30 2021
Swiss Re: Emerging markets’ savings gap around triple GDP
Emerging Asia has a pension savings gap of US$3.8tn a year.
