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- April 25 2022
China P&C market to shrug off Covid disruption
Sunshine's Hong Kong listing points to a robust market.
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- April 19 2022
APAC broker M&A to stay on the boil
Xenia, WTW, AUB Group and Gallagher are just some of the firms looking to expand in the region.
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- March 28 2022
Governments should step up nat cat market outreach
Recent flooding in Malaysia and Australia reinforce urgency in setting up protection schemes.
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- February 8 2022
Tackling Australia’s affordability crisis won’t be easy
Government signs off reinsurance pool design days after prudential regulator lists 2022 priorities.
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- February 3 2022
Asia cat modelling ripe for insurtech funding
After recent fundraisings at Reask and Descartes Underwriting, expect more over the next 12 months.
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- January 14 2022
WTW rebrand signals new era after Aon drama
The Willis name has had a long history with roots going back to 1841.
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- December 31 2021
Japan’s ‘Big Three’ primed for SE Asia growth
Sompo, Tokio Marine and MS&AD have all launched a number of initiatives in Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore this year.
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- December 22 2021
Munich Re, WTW’s sovereign debt ‘cat wrapper’ a model for SE Asia
The demand for similar style debt protection in the region is likely to grow.
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- December 16 2021
Australia’s cyclone risk pool a first step
The US$7bn reinsurance scheme needs to be backed up by other initiatives to address a rapidly changing risk environment.
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- November 2 2021
Cover fine print key for Asia’s eager travelers
Travel insurance will need to be a far more nuanced offering post-pandemic.
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- October 25 2021
ESG primed for Asia’s insurance mainstream
Sun Life Malaysia has just launched the country’s first investment-linked ESG fund.
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- October 21 2021
Asia’s cyber market needs to learn its limitations
Systemic attacks on critical infrastructure have been described as "beyond the industry's capacity to insure".
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- October 14 2021
Australia’s P&C players told to up their risk game
APRA's deputy chair Helen Rowell describes BI issue as a “significant mis-step” by the country’s general insurers.
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- September 27 2021
India should welcome Chinese investment in LIC
Rumoured plans to ban mainland investors from IPO risk turning the deal into a political hot potato.
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- September 21 2021
GIC Re’s underwriting losses remain the elephant in the room
The reinsurer has been overly reliant on investment returns to turn a profit.
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- September 13 2021
Marine insurance doldrums to be short-lived
China's Belt & Road Initiative should boost both the cargo and hull markets in the years ahead.
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- September 6 2021
Indonesia’s disaster pool highlights need for government intervention
Accessing reinsurance markets collectively gives state entities economies of scale.
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- August 13 2021
Gallagher/Willis Re deal to offer weighty Asia footprint
The US-broker needs larger operations in reinsurance and the region to be a truly global broker.
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- July 29 2021
Aon/WTW collapse ushers in calm before M&A storm
Asia has numerous targets to deliver the scale global brokers crave.
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- July 28 2021
China’s flood defences must be combined with insurance
Extreme flooding in Henan highlights the importance of a functioning risk transfer market.
