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- September 8 2017
Allianz rebuffs Chinese takeover
It emerged this week that Anbang and HNA both attempted a takeover of the German insurer earlier this year.
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- September 8 2017
Reinsurers look to Asia
As market conditions get “ugly”, Asian diversification is more important than ever for reinsurers.
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- September 1 2017
Targeting Asia’s greying population
Insurers could be missing a trick by not offering more retirement income products to the region’s ageing population.
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- August 31 2017
Reinsurance industry braces for Harvey impact
Will the storm, the first major hurricane to make landfall in the US since 2005, bring an end to the soft reinsurance market?
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- August 25 2017
Convergence of reinsurance and capital management roundtable
Prominent industry voices discuss this important topic and how it is affecting the sector in Asia in a roundtable with Allianz Re.
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- August 25 2017
Troubled waters
More than a quarter of shipping losses during 2016 occurred in the Asian maritime region.
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- August 18 2017
Philippines launches parametric disaster programme
The pilot scheme will provide parametric disaster coverage for 25 at-risk provinces in partnership with World Bank.
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- August 18 2017
Bank Negara on captives
Governor Muhammad bin Ibrahim gave the keynote address at the Asian Captive Conference 2017 in Kuala Lumpur.
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- August 11 2017
Asia’s insurtech edge
Legacy issues are one of the biggest obstacles for insurers in developed markets. But not in Asia.
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- August 11 2017
Asian boards need to take responsibility for cyber
Cybersecurity is too important an issue for senior executives and company boards to ignore.
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- August 4 2017
Reinsurers drawn to Asian growth
Strong underlying growth is a cure for many ills, including the need to worry about "innovation".
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- August 4 2017
China’s asset dilemma
The investment patterns of Chinese life companies such as Anbang continue to raise concerns.
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- July 28 2017
Insurers tasked to fund disaster relief in poor nations
The UK and Germany have pledged to support the development of insurance solutions for disaster risks.
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- July 28 2017
Promise over profits in India
Less than a year after new rules to nurture domestic reinsurance capability, ITI Re is set to quit the business.
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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.
