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- July 25 2022
Marine, property and liability drive China Merchants Insurance’s premium growth: AM Best
The Hong Kong insurer's premium revenue grew by 11.8% in 2021.
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- July 21 2022
Korean insurers draw coal criticism
Samsung F&M and Hyundai M&F under fire, but Kepco’s decision to exit coal signals change.
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- July 13 2022
China heightens oversight as insurance assets bulk up
With the top four players controlling over half the market, any company failure is a huge risk to the economy.
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- July 12 2022
China’s regulators issue draft rules on ‘systemically’ important insurance groups
The evaluation scope includes scale, correlation, asset realisation and substitutability.
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- June 28 2022
Sompo makes coal underwriting pledge and joins Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
The insurer commits to ruling out underwriting and investment in certain coal companies by 2025.
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- June 6 2022
Asian insurers unworried by inflation, survey finds
Goldman Sachs says that rising prices are not seen as a serious risk in the region.
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- March 10 2022
Ukraine conflict to have ‘modest’ impact on APAC insurers: S&P
The war is unlikely to impact a largely domestic-facing market, but there are significant risks.
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- November 18 2021
APAC insurers should curb coal to avoid legal threat: Moody’s
Climate change-linked lawsuits against companies in carbon intensive industries have increased in recent years.
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- November 8 2021
MAS reviewing asset, liability exposure reporting
Insurers have until December 6, 2021 to submit their comments on the new proposals.
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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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- June 3 2021
Japan’s life giants set for rebound after robust FY 2020 profits
Stable mortality margins helped Dai-ichi Life, Meiji Yasuda Life, Nippon Life and Sumitomo Life.
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- May 12 2021
Prudential Financial’s Japan unit blunted Covid-19 impact: Fitch
After several sales of Asian assets in the last 18 months, Japan is set to grow in importance.
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- April 9 2021
DWS appoints Ellen Yang as head of APAC insurance
She has previously worked at Standard Life, KPMG and advised the CBIRC.
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- April 1 2021
Environmental liability insurance creating opportunities: Fitch
ESG considerations for Asian (re)insurers are creating an underwriting priority reset.
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- February 11 2021
Thai regulator revises CAR for local insurers: report
The credit rating of foreign bonds has also been changed to facilitate more overseas investment.
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- December 29 2020
Japan’s insurers to ramp up ESG exposure in 2021
Nippon Life to introduce ESG criteria for its entire investment portfolio in April.
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- December 1 2020
ILS resilience promises big returns in 2021
Constrained (re)insurance capacity and rate improvement are attracting ILS capital.
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- November 25 2020
AIA conducting coal portfolio review as critics take aim
Climate groups say the Hong Kong life player’s policies do not go far enough.
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- October 23 2020
BlackRock sees Asia’s insurers turning to alternative investments
As geopolitical and liquidity risks increase, there's a greater focus on assets such as private credit.
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- September 28 2020
Ping An ups stake in HSBC
The Chinese giant reaffirms its commitment to the bank, as its largest shareholder.
