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- October 28 2016
China’s greying population
A demographic time bomb is forcing the country to address the rising cost of elderly care.
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- October 21 2016
Can Asian bancassurance keep growing?
Will regulators start to clamp down on banks selling insurance, just as they are doing in Europe?
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- October 21 2016
Korean pensioners try cat bonds
A Korean pension fund has become the first financial institution in the country to invest in catastrophe bonds.
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- October 14 2016
God and the protection gap
Some objections to buying insurance, such as "Inshallah", are particularly challenging for insurers to address.
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- October 14 2016
Samsung shows how not to do a recall
The Korean company's botched response to its exploding Note 7 smartphone provides a lesson in managing crises.
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- October 7 2016
Insurer powers Formula E debut in Hong Kong
The data-crunching expertise of an insurance company will be helping two of the Formula E cars in Hong Kong this weekend.
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- October 7 2016
Hunting for yield
The investment environment continues to worsen, with slow growth and geopolitical concerns pushing insurers to embrace riskier assets.
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- September 30 2016
Insuring Asia’s growing nuclear sector
Asia is at the forefront of a boom in the construction of new nuclear power plants, but who is covering the potential liability?
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- September 30 2016
ICICI Prudential launches India’s first insurance IPO
Selling shareholder ICICI Bank raised US$911m from the country's biggest initial public offering in six years.
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- September 23 2016
The Disruptor: Andre Hesselink, GoBear
Andre Hesselink, founder and chief executive of GoBear, has built Asia’s first financial product metasearch engine.
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- September 19 2016
Super typhoon Meranti provides wake-up call
Last week's storm is another reminder of the huge potential for insurance-linked securities in the region.
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- September 9 2016
Solving the superbug problem
The decreasing efficacy of antimicrobial drugs in humans has serious consequences for life and health insurers.
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- September 8 2016
Allianz-InsuranceAsia News Emerging Risks Roundtable
Risk managers joined us in Hong Kong to discuss their views on the latest emerging risks.
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- September 2 2016
Is the world ready for China?
The country is once again at the centre of attention as G20 leaders gather for the summit in Hangzhou.
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- September 2 2016
Managing casualty accumulations
As globalisation and technology make the world smaller, the potential for massive liabilities is growing much bigger.
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- August 26 2016
Central bankers ponder global interest rates
Janet Yellen and other economic policymakers gathered in Jackson Hole for the Fed's annual economic policy conference.
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- August 26 2016
China’s surging private health market
China’s crowded and inefficient public hospitals are encouraging people to turn to private health insurance.
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- August 19 2016
How Ping An is crushing the competition
The group comfortably beat analyst estimates with its first-half results announced this week, delivering profit growth of 17.7%.
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- August 19 2016
No slowdown in Indonesia’s regulatory zeal
The president has approved plans to create holding companies for state-owned enterprises, eventually including entities for insurance.
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- August 12 2016
Asian ports are world’s riskiest
Ports at Nagoya in Japan and Guangzhou in China pose the biggest risk of financial loss in the world.
