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- June 10 2016
Manulife taps yield-hungry Taiwanese life insurers
Borrowing in Taiwan is an increasingly popular option among global corporates as local investors shun domestic debt.
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- June 10 2016
Can a supercomputer forecast India’s monsoon?
More data is certainly a good thing, but investment in flood defences and urban planning are also crucial to building resilience.
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- June 3 2016
On-demand insurance
Scott Walchek, founder and chief executive of technology company Trov, wants to reinvent insurance for the mobile generation.
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- June 3 2016
Reinsurance under C-ROSS
Dozens of reinsurers moved onshore in response to China's introduction of its new solvency regime.
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- May 27 2016
Blockchain technology coming to China?
Ping An has become the first Chinese insurer to join a global consortium exploring ways to use the technology in financial markets.
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- May 26 2016
Allianz launches Singapore innovation hub
The company's Asia Lab will seek to harness digital innovation and advanced analytics to deliver intuitive solutions.
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- May 20 2016
Solving the ride-sharing conundrum
South-East Asia's Grab has been making progress on the issue of insurance for private-hire car drivers and passengers.
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- May 19 2016
Internet-connected underwriting
Many common risks will be completely transformed by the internet of things, but there will be no shortage of new liabilities.
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- May 13 2016
Perfect storm for Chinese life companies
The weak domestic economy, new solvency rules and increased scrutiny from the regulator are squeezing profits.
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- May 12 2016
Time for risk managers to become heroes?
Few governments, companies or organisations in Asia take risk management seriously enough, argues Parima chairman.
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- May 6 2016
Insurance industry takes aim at risk resiliency
The newly launched Insurance Development Forum aims to harness the insurance industry to build natural disaster resilience.
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- May 6 2016
Premiums to fall further
Investment returns are still falling and competition from alternative sources of capital continues to push pricing down.
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- April 29 2016
Global terrorism threat at all-time high
Last year was the most lethal in almost a decade as terrorists increasingly targeted private citizens and public gatherings.
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- April 29 2016
A window of growth in Malaysia’s Islamic market
Demand in Asia’s biggest takaful market is growing at multiples of the conventional industry.
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- April 22 2016
India’s coming IPO wave?
HDFC Life is set to become the country’s first publicly listed life insurer, potentially heralding a wave of deals.
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- April 22 2016
Korean woes
The depths of Korea's problems came into sharp relief when Allianz sold its life unit for less than a Gangnam apartment.
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- April 15 2016
Hong Kong at centre of Panama Papers revelations
Massive leak of documents on shell companies exposes financial institutions to D&O liability.
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- April 15 2016
Asean launches insurance forum
Integration plans took a small step forward last week as finance ministers and central bankers met in Laos.
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- April 8 2016
M&A boom fuelling growth in insurance protection
Acquisitive Asian corporates helped drive a record year for M&A insurance during 2015, according to Marsh.
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- April 8 2016
Data: Q1 share performance
Asian insurers' shares had a terrible start to the year, with all four indices dropping more than 20% by mid-February.
