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- July 21 2017
Monitoring construction delay
Risk managers are looking for better solutions to protect against delays on construction projects.
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- July 21 2017
Solving the pandemic problem
The systemic nature of pandemic risk poses a challenging problem for the reinsurance industry.
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- July 14 2017
Is the end of QE in sight?
The point may be nearing where even the BoJ starts to retreat from QE, setting yields on a higher course globally.
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- July 14 2017
Protecting against Hong Kong’s typhoon signal 8
Swiss Re has launched the city’s first insurance product to indemnify businesses against losses from a T8 signal.
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- July 7 2017
China overtakes Japan
The outlook for Asia's insurance markets is varied, as China becomes the world's second-biggest premium pot.
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- July 7 2017
Guaranteed to end badly?
Insurers in Asia are taking ever bigger risks to meet increasingly unrealistic guaranteed returns promised to policyholders.
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- June 30 2017
Insurers worry about innovation
Insurers doubt their ability to work with partners outside of the industry and are struggling to bring good people into it.
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- June 30 2017
China’s motor market running out of fuel
Further easing of pricing limits has led to fears of even weaker profitability for non-life insurers.
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- June 23 2017
How insurers are responding to medical innovations
Social changes and medical innovations are pushing health insurers in Asia to design products for new risks.
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- June 23 2017
Reinsurance softening accelerates
Despite predictions that pricing would start to bottom out this year, the opposite is actually happening.
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- June 16 2017
Singapore rocked by Lee family feud
The rift between Lee Kuan Yew's children is threatening the Lion City’s composure.
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- June 16 2017
BA shows the challenge of connected risks
Nightmare scenarios don’t get much worse than BA's IT failure, but how many companies are prepared for such incidents?
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- June 9 2017
Insurers warn on climate risk
But the industry as a whole could do more to mitigate the challenges it faces from global warming.
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- June 9 2017
Quick take: Milli Re
We take a look at Turkish reinsurer Milli Re and speak to the head of its Singapore branch, Chew Kwok Choong.
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- June 2 2017
Small chips, big risks
The complexity of semiconductor manufacturing can pose a range of risks that need to be understood to be able to offer sustainable capacity.
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- June 2 2017
Waking up to emerging risks
A roundtable with leading risk managers in Singapore jointly hosted with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty.
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- May 26 2017
Downgrading China
Moody's has downgraded the country’s sovereign rating for the first time since 1989.
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- May 26 2017
Q&A: Daisy Ning
We speak to the head of life and health products for Asia at Swiss Re about the changing role of actuaries in Asia.
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- May 24 2017
WannaCry hit Asia hard but won’t boost cyber policies
Companies that haven’t taken basic security measures aren’t about to start buying insurance.
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- May 24 2017
Market data roundup
The stock price performance of Asian insurers has improved during the past month, though reinsurers continue to struggle.