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CFO interview: navigating China's regulatory and growth currents
29 April 2022As chief financial officer at AIA Life Insurance in China, Leo Ng is used to being the fastest-growing unit of the Australasian insurance giant. He tells David Walker of the opportunities, and challenges, in Mainland China.
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China's Insurance Industry (almost) in eight charts
27 April 2022David Walker draws on diverse data sources, to chart eight exhibits that give glimpse into the insurance industry of the world's most populous country and second largest economy
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'R': the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything (insurance)?
20 April 2022Two economists disagree on current levels of recessionary risk during the Insurance Asset Risk 2022 Real Assets conference. Vincent Huck reports
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The Asian hedge against stagflation, according to Peak Re chief economist
06 April 2022Clarence Wong highlights the strong economic outlook for APAC at Insurance Asset Risk Investing in Real Assets conference 2022, and why the region's real assets are a source of opportunities for insurers globally. Vincent Huck reports.
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CIO interview: Hiscox lined up for 2022 reinvestment opportunities
09 March 2022James Millard was appointed group CIO at Hiscox in January 2020. He looks back at the last two years and explains why he has high expectations for 2022. Interview by Vincent Huck
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Insurance ALM turns 160 years old!
24 February 2022Today marks the 160th anniversary of what is believed to be the first actuarial paper on asset-liability management.... but has anything really changed since 1862? Vincent Huck blows out the candles, and gets reading...
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Insurers define the 'central bank gambit'
21 February 2022In an environment of heightened inflation and rising rates, should insurers play defensively against the central banks' next moves?
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How optimising for Hong Kong RBC is music to a CIO's ears
16 February 2022General accounts investments ideally work in harmony. Hong Kong's CIOs, the 'conductors' seeking such harmony, explain to David Walker approaching RBC rules require some 'GA fine-tuning'
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IFRS 17 and 9 - The tricky balance between local and group reporting
31 January 2022Blake Sowerby, IFRS 17/9 programme manager, Asia region, at Generali, discusses with Vincent Huck the accounting standards' implementation and expected changes in insurers' investment behaviour
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Hong Kong regulation's benefits more than numerical, insurers say
19 January 2022Capital charge numbers are an important part of Hong Kong's RBC, but insurers tell David Walker that the qualitative improvements they expect in how underwriters manage their risk will be as important