Insurance

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)...

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...

Policy holders of risk and life insurance unsatisfied

In the year 2016, satisfaction amongst risk and life insurance policy holders was 67.4%, down from 68.8% in 2015, and still lower than that of all...

Seven tech trends in insurance

If property & casualty (P&C) insurers want to dominate the industry in the coming years, then part of their game plan should involve becoming a...

High protection gap in emerging Asia

The world was devastated by 327 disasters in 2016, 191 of which were natural catastrophes and 136 man-made ones. According to a recent report by Swiss...

Where are the drones in insurance?

Are wearables the closest thing to drones in the insurance sector?

Insurtech investment set to skyrocket in Asia Pacific till 2019

Rising margin pressure will compel insurance companies to join the insurtech race.

Going Digital

Talks of digitalisation has dominated the financial services industry, and the insurance sector is no exception. A survey by Willis Towers Watson...

Emergence of the InsurTech ecosystem in Asia

2016 has been officially been declared the year of InsurTech. The marriage of insurance and technology infused with entrepreneurial energy, InsurTech...