Insurance
How must insurance firms in Singapore play the game of digital catch up?
How must insurance firms in Singapore play the game of digital catch up?
The “wait and see” attitude is holding back insurers from being early adopters of digital transformation.
Aetna's Derek Goldberg set on tapping into Asia's growing mass affluent
The Asian mass affluent consumer is expected to hold $43.3t in assets by 2020, and Goldberg eyes leveraging this opportunity.
Taiwan's protection business is growing slowly
Taiwan life insurers expect continued demand for their savings-type products over the next 12-18 months, thanks to a high a high national saving rate...
How can technology cause insurers' profits to fall precipitously?
When a top insurance company in the US found that its customers seeking an online insurance quote were finding it tedious to fill out numerous forms...
Coface names Samuel Jesuratnam as country manager for Singapore
Coface named Samuel Jesuratnam as country manager for Singapore effective September 2017.
Generali Asia appoints Neil Gardner as Asia chief customer officer
Neil Gardner has been appointed as Asia chief customer officer at Generali Asia in September 2017.
Why is insurers' anxiety at an all-time high?
If regulatory and macroeconomic risk were foremost amongst insurer worries two years ago, these have now been overtaken by anxieties on coping with...
How is Hong Kong bridging protection gaps?
More than half of Hong Kong’s workforce have experienced income loss due to illness or disability. Yet a survey by Zurich Insurance (Hong Kong)...
M&As heat up in Hong Kong insurance
An invasion is afoot in the Hong Kong insurance industry, and it is led by non-insurers entering the market to acquire established local players. Even...
Emerging Asia to lead insurance sector growth
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India are the most promising economies.
Thai Insurance to grow 7.63% in 2017
With foreign shareholding now allowed at more than 49%, Thailand’s life and non-life companies stand to gain even more. KrungThai-AXA Life’s (KTAXA)...
Insurance innovation labs, a failed experiment
Despite significant investments made insurance innovation labs have largely failed to deliver impact beyond positive initial PR stories. Why is that...
Driving insurance transformation with strategy-aligned M&A
Disruption is shaking the fundamentals of the insurance industry. This is true structural change, not just a cycle. New technologies, new competitors...
Can insurers deliver more value to customers?
From tracking drivers’ braking behaviour, to installing wearable devices on factory workers, to funding medical advice mobile apps, many insurance...
Hong Kong insurers brace for a new regulatory regime from this year
The Office of the Commissioner of Insurance in Hong Kong will be replaced by the Independent Insurance Authority from June 26 . What changes can the...
LIA Singapore's president Patrick Teow talks of the worrisome protection gap in the city
Teow eyes bridging the US$330b protection gap and increasing collaborations amongst stakeholders.
Breaking the analytics code in insurance
With rapid and revolutionary transformations in business-customer interaction across the globe, private customer data is now considered the insurer’s...