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- May 2 2026
Full Capacity: You can’t insure your way out of a heatwave
This week's newsletter also discusses an IAN exclusive, Kuwait Re's new Gift City branch, Japan's Q1 nat cat claims, Acko's listing plans and Asia’s D&O market.
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- April 25 2026
Full Capacity: Underwriting, unbundled by AI
This week's newsletter also discusses an IAN exclusive, reinsurers' leadership changes, a nat cat brief, Allianz and Jio's India JV and HK's new ILS frameworks.
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- April 18 2026
Full Capacity: Cyber threats zero in on Asia Pacific
This week's newsletter discusses Mark O'Brien's new role at XS Global, Sompo's Australia expansion, India and South Korea's response to Iran conflict, data centres and Taiping's regional strategy.
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- April 11 2026
Full Capacity: Ceasefire’s limited lifeline for insurers
This week's newsletter discusses an The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), India’s Gift City growth, ARPC's milestone, Korea's Lotte Insurance sale, and the Middle East ceasfire's effect on the (re)insurance sector.
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- April 4 2026
Full Capacity: April renewals – can China, India unleash APAC specialty boom?
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Simon Global's HK MGA approval, PE investment into Niyam Group, Envest's organisational reshuffle, the Middle East conflict's spillover into Asia's PVT market and 1.4 renewals in Asia.
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- March 28 2026
Full Capacity: Berkshire bets the Buffett way; Mosaic’s exit casts a shadow
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Peak Re's leadership change,Allianz and Jio's JV, 1.4 renewals, Berkshire Hathaway's Japan foray and Mosaic's Singapore exit.
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- March 21 2026
Full Capacity: War risks spill over, M&A insurance’s scramble for talent
This week's newsletter discusses an alarming prediction from the Swiss Re Institute, the latest from the crisis in the Middle East, Lloyd's new strategy, and the competition for talent in Asia's M&A insurance market.
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- March 14 2026
Full Capacity: ILS: Will 2026 separate the pros from the posers?
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, US DFC's maritime reinsurance facility, Warburg Pincus' insurance platform sale, MSIG Asia's leadership change, woman in insurance and cat bonds outlook for 2026.
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- March 7 2026
Full Capacity: Steering through escalating Middle East conflict
This week's newsletter discusses an BHSI's leadership change, QBE's takeover in India, Hong Kong's new captive, Zurich sealing the Beazley deal and insurance during Middle East escalations.
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- February 28 2026
Full Capacity: Gift City gold rush
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Gallagher Re's leadership change, Partner Re's Gift City entry, Hong Kong's ILS scheme, Steadfast's passing of the baton and the rush of entries into Gift City.
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- February 21 2026
Full Capacity: APAC insurance M&A gains momentum
This week's newsletter discusses Swiss Re's acquisition of QBE's trade credit and surety arm, Sompo's clearance to acquire Aspen, two M&A deals, HDI's Southeast Asia focus, ARPC's terrorism retrocession program and APAC’s M&A growth.
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- February 14 2026
Full Capacity: AI‑led insurtech: revival or recalibration?
This week's newsletter discusses a Lloyd's leadership update, M&A updates, Vietnam's odd rate increase, Marsh's insurance rates, Willis’ crisis management annual review and insurtech's AI-led future.
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- February 7 2026
Full Capacity: ElementaRe: Approaches to solving the protection gap
This week's newsletter discusses an Aviso's Lockton raid, a new MGA in Australia, a Zurich-Beazley update, Marsh's insurance rates, Asia's facultative cover and Australia's approach to a broken insurance market.
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- January 31 2026
Full Capacity: Reinsurers rev up with casualty sidecars
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN Exclusive, AUB's M&A deal, an Australian nat-cat update, VIG Re's expansion, space debris and the casualty sidecars.
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- January 24 2026
Full Capacity: Is Zurich’s pursuit of Beazley a tipping point for specialty consolidation?
This week's newsletter discusses two IAN Exclusives, Vietnam's AlphaRe, data centres and the Zurich-Beazley deal.
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- January 17 2026
Full Capacity: 2026 is starting to heat up
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN Exclusive, an M&A update, Suncorp's nat cat allowance, South Korean regulatory tightening, geopolitical spillovers and Australia's bushfire.
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- December 20 2025
Full Capacity: The year that was
This week's newsletter discusses an IAN exclusive, Chubb's leadership switch, India's FDI increase for insurers, Vietnam's regulatory changes, Swiss Re Institute's nat cat analysis, the launch of a new APAC MGA and a 2025 round-up.
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- December 13 2025
Full Capacity: Climate crisis strikes at Southeast Asia’s doorstep
This week's newsletter discusses Guy Carpenter's lawsuit, this week's M&A deals, China Re's leadership change, Japan's nat-cat update, P&I renewals the South Asia floods.
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- December 6 2025
Full Capacity: Reckoning after Tai Po tragedy
This week's newsletter discusses broker deals in Australia, DB's Fortegra acquisition, storms in Southeast Asia and the leadership change at Allianz Re.
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- November 29 2025
Full Capacity: Rise of the machines: AI transition and job losses
This week's newsletter discusses the HK fire, nat cat updates, Munich Re's Australia push, Korean Re's Gift City entry, Roojai's PE funding, a P&I merger, and the AI dilemma for the insurance market.
