Industry Segments: Results Page 2 / 22
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- February 23 2024
Zurich Asia property & casualty FY2023 GWP up 11% on travel business recovery
Asia Pacific's operating profit rose 18% primarily due to growth in life business, while higher commission rate linked to its travel business sales weighed on P&C combined ratio.
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- February 22 2024
Samsung Fire & Marine FY 2023 insurance profit up 18.6% at US$1.5bn
South Korea’s largest carrier charts overseas expansion plans for its P&C lines, which saw its insurance profit grow 112% year-on-year.
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- February 21 2024
Tower Insurance forecasts improvement in COR to 95-97% for FY 2024
The Kiwi carrier’s four-month GWP for the current fiscal year is up 21% to US$120m on rating increases. Its combined ratio will likely improve from 101% in FY2023.
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- February 21 2024
PSC Insurance upgrades full-year guidance after 39% rise in H1 bottom line
The Melbourne-based global broking group saw strong performance in its distribution business in Australia, offsetting the small decline recorded by its existing UK business.
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- February 20 2024
AUB upgrades earnings guidance as H1 FY 2024 pre-tax profits grow 18.3%
A doubling of underlying net profit after tax in its underwriting agencies and New Zealand businesses bolstered the Australian broker's results.
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- February 16 2024
IAG’s H1 2024 underwriting profit up 24% to US$211m , COR improves to 92.8%
The insurer's GWP grew 12.5% on premium increases and strong New Zealand business, but its net profit fell 13% year-on-year.
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- February 15 2024
Tower revises full year earnings guidance upwards on strong trading results
The Kiwi insurer expects underlying net profit to be at the upper end or exceed previous target of NZ$22-NZ$27 million.
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- February 15 2024
Overseas growth drives Japan’s big three as domestic premiums flatten
The third quarter results reported by MS&AD, Tokio Marine and Sompo Group show strong top-line growth and substantial improvements in profits from international arms due to lower nat cat losses, reduced Covid-19 losses and forex gains.
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- February 15 2024
Korea’s Lotte Insurance records highest full year profit since inception
The non-life insurer's provisional full-year operating profit tripled from a year ago to US$350.5m, thanks in part to its strong growth in long-term business.
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- February 14 2024
MS Amlin COR for 9M FY 2023 improves to 90%, reports solid top-line growth
The MS&AD-owned specialty (re)insurer reported insurance service profit of US$309m, reversing the loss reported a year ago.
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- February 9 2024
Chubb’s Greenberg flags up tail risks from Asian geopolitical escalations
In an earnings call following the global carrier's 'the best in the history' fourth-quarter results led by Asia, the chief executive warned of wider global implications of regional conflicts, but reassured that 'all sides are seeking stability'.
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- January 26 2024
Pace of loss cost inflation is the ‘great unknown’: Marsh McLennan’s Doyle
The group’s insurance broking business in Asia Pacific saw revenues grow 7% to US$1.3bn in FY 2023.
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- November 30 2023
Hong Kong P&C underwriting profit plunges 56% in first nine months of 2023: HKIA
The city’s moribund property market and severe weather events in September pressured insurers’ bottom line.
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- November 23 2023
Tower’s FY 2023 COR at 101% as large events cost triple to US$33.6m
While the New Zealand insurer's GWP grew 17% to US$319m, its underlying profit fell 72% year-on-year hit by large losses from January and February weather events.
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- November 21 2023
Malaysian Re reports US$23.8m net profit in H1 FY 2024
The Asean reinsurer returned to profit in the first six months of the financial year on the back of higher insurance service results and investment gains.
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- November 20 2023
Japan’s big three script domestic underwriting rebound
Rate increases, absence of Covid-19, large nat cat losses and increased investment income help Tokio Marine, MS&AD and Sompo improve their earnings in the first half of FY 2023.
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- November 17 2023
MS Amlin turns around underwriting performance with 91.6% COR
The Japanese insurance group's overseas business saw its net premiums for the first six months grow 45% year-on-year to US$4bn.
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- November 10 2023
GIC Re reports 9% dip in H1 earnings, COR deteriorates to 117%
The state-owned reinsurer reported a premium income of US$23.5bn and a profit after tax of US$2.85bn.
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- October 16 2023
Tower reports lower cyclone costs, spurt in GWP growth; upgrades FY profit forecast
The Kiwi P&C player has revised its net profit after tax guidance for FY 2023 to between US$4.2m to US$5.9m based on preliminary results.
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- October 12 2023
IAG’s Hunter Hailstorm loss creep to squeeze H1 margins
Reinstatement costs of US$45m also to hit performance, as IAG's CEO laments a "substantial and sustained reduction" in reinsurance global capacity.
