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Market Watchers: Asian Insurers Continue to Diversify Assets Overseas Amid Changing Economic Trends
Cathay Conning Asset Management. Japan's life insurance companies have already expanded their asset allocation to foreign assets after the start of economic policies introduced by ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 5, 2016
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Argentina: Investors Wanted
Buenos Aires is the most popular tourist destination in South America. Argentina's capital city attracted 2.6 million visitors last year, according to the 2012 MasterCard Global ...
Source: Best's Review Date: July 1, 2013

Agricultural Bank of China Becomes Controlling Shareholder of Jiahe Life
Jiahe Life Insurance Co. Ltd., according to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission. With the CIRC clearance, all five leading China state-owned banks are now equity stakeholders ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 26, 2012
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Swiss Re: New Capital Rules, Economic Pressures Drive M&A in Southeast Asia
Solvency II regime by 2014. "This will also trigger more potential M&As, especially those financial institutions that are stressed under the new regime amid the euro crisis that ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 29, 2012
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Perspectives: IAIS Ponders the Experiences of Insurers in the 2008 Financial Crisis
Asia life unit, AIA Ltd., in Singapore and Hong Kong, as worried policyholders feared the parent company's troubles would hit the underwriting subsidiaries, the report noted in ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 21, 2011
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Multinational Insurers Seek Banking Partners in Rapidly Shifting China Market
Greater China at consultancy Accenture. Today, banks tend to have "one too many" relationships or partnerships with insurers, noted Khor. "It's not uncommon for a bank to have ...
Source: BestWire Date: February 1, 2011
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Chinese Insurers Need More Investment Options to Offset Risks
Solvency requirements and capital reserves among Chinese insurers are unlikely to limit their investment capabilities, but Swiss Re noted that constraints on permissible investment ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 21, 2010
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Swiss Re: In Recovery, Insurance Has Regained Capital Position
Insurance Review 2010 and Outlook 2011/12 report. Such a dilemma suggests "the best strategy to boost profitability is to strive for higher underwriting standards, which implicitly ...
Source: BestWire Date: December 8, 2010
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Japan and Australia Enter a New Phase of Longevity Innovation
Marine Nichido Financial Life and Manulife Life. The financial crisis prompted the withdrawal of insurers including Hartford Life and ING Life from Japan's variable annuity market ...
Source: BestWire Date: November 2, 2010
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Regulation Seen as Crucial to Pension Development in China
...Pacific region can be broadly classified into two groups. Australia, Japan and Singapore run well-established, comprehensive and mature systems, while Asian emerging markets ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 19, 2010
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Foreign Insurers Reconsider Chinese Business Models on Cost-Effectiveness
China operation," she said. With an increasing cost-effectiveness concern among foreign players in China, the analyst said the 50-50 joint venture business model needs to be ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 19, 2010
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Insurers' Discipline a Key Concern in Fast-Growing China Market
China Rendezvous in Shenzhen. One of the challenges in the Chinese insurance industry is "how to effectively localize the market with specific situations in China," said Steven ...
Source: BestWire Date: October 4, 2010
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Taiwan Regulator Proposes Allowing Insurers to Invest in China
Hong Kong in a bid to enhance Taiwanese insurers' investment flexibility. The proposed revision of insurance companies' overseas investment rules will lift the ban on Taiwanese ...
Source: BestWire Date: August 5, 2010
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Insurers Seek New Growth Outlets in Taiwan's Saturated Market
Celent in a market report. The market still offers potential for untapped opportunity. As for retirement plans, many Taiwanese are interested in individual annuity products due to ...
Source: BestWire Date: March 2, 2010
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Regulatory Change Accelerates After the Financial Crisis
Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous. "The insurance industry has, on the whole, withstood the financial crisis, but was not unscathed," said Singh. "Balance sheets were severely affected by a ...
Source: BestWire Date: September 14, 2009
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China's Motor Insurers Rev Up the Premiums, But Claims Costs Prove Hard to Control
Jenny Lai, consultant at Towers Perrin. Overall, competition and focus on premium growth have come at the cost of profitability, noted Lai. It is impossible to reckon how ...
Source: BestWire Date: September 1, 2009
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Investment-Linked Product Sales Point to Recovery in China
Greatwall Life Insurance Co., Citic-Prudential Life Insurance Co. and Pacific-Antai Life Insurance Co. The regulator's move is a "positive sign" for the investment market in China, ...
Source: BestWire Date: July 21, 2009
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Credit Insurance has Strong Potential, Swiss Re Tells London Briefing
Swiss Re Group, told a London media briefing. Credit insurance is already strong in Europe, with very encouraging prospects in Asia and North America, Schmidt told the session at ...
Source: BestWire Date: June 29, 2006
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Hamilton Bound
Bermuda after Hurricane Katrina." Lloyd's underwriter Hiscox plc formed Hiscox Bermuda, a reinsurer to be backed with $500 million in capital. Fellow Lloyd's insurer Amlin plc ...
Source: Best's Review Date: May 1, 2006

Europe's Insurance Sector Faces Positives, Negatives in 2005, London Seminar Told
Earnings momentum is likely to recover. Discipline should continue on the nonlife side, where the earnings cycle looks set to remain strong. Momentum should return in the recovery ...
Source: BestWire Date: January 24, 2005
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