Asia Pacific
12 May 2025 Two extreme weather events so far this year triggered 126,000 claims.
Latest Features
Reinsurance
As climate change, geopolitics and inflation challenge the region, Kevin Bogardus of Everest Re says each APAC market must be assessed on its own merits.
Insurance
With a fast-evolving region as vast and diverse as Asia-Pacific, selecting the most lucrative areas for re/insurance growth is no mean feat. An Intelligent Insurer panel of regional leaders share their strategies.
Insurance
Investing in the Asia-Pacific insurance markets can yield substantial rewards, but how can you best capitalise on growth opportunities once you’ve carefully selected them?
Insurance
Guy Carpenter’s Global Property Catastrophe Rate-on-Line Index, a measure of the overall premium movement against limits purchased, rose by 27.5 percent globally in the 1/1 year-end renewal, bringing it on a par with levels seen in 2006.
Alternative Risk Transfer
Vesttoo, the insurtech that matches capital with risks using ILS structures, has seen a sharp uplift in demand as insurers and reinsurers grapple with a capacity crunch and hardening rates, the company’s newly appointed head of insurance markets, UK & Europe, told Intelligent Insurer.
Insurance
There were sober and disciplined renewals in Asia-Pacific despite chaotic world events. After continually fighting fires since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, however, the key question may be how the market will respond to a period of calm.
Insurance
Renewals in the region were disciplined and perhaps even dull, but the diversity of the countries and differing lines means that drama is never far away. Capacity, as ever, is key, says an Intelligent Insurer panel.
Insurance
In a wide-ranging interview, the executive discussed the changing focus of the SiriusPoint strategy, investing in innovation and the company’s future expansion plans.
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14 April 2025 He replaces interim head, who takes on newly created head of distribution role.
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