Archive

• APAC Weekly - Australia's insurers ditch 'softly, softly' approach to call out governments' poor climate decisions

  27 May 2025

  Rain last week left over 50,000 eastern seaboard residents stranded last week

• BarmeniaGothaer names next head of asset management unit

  14 March 2025

  Gerrit Heine will join from Munich Re

• APAC Weekly - CIOs become a PR unit's best friend as affordability issues plague sector

  11 March 2025

  In earnings calls non-lifers are looking for 'good days to bury good news'

• Australians start taking climate change (almost) as seriously as sport

  06 March 2025

  A tropical cyclone this week forced relocation of rugby matches, as the awful enormity of global warming finally dawns on the Aussies

• APAC Weekly - How insurers' involvement with reinsurers is deepening, and broadening

  04 March 2025

  Not only a 'lifesaver' for APAC's CUOs, reinsurers are becoming targets for APAC CIOs

• Why non-life CIOs may struggle in fight for APAC's spare capital

  24 February 2025

  An APAC bond yield of 2.4%? Or an insurance operation's 19%? Take your pick...

• APAC Weekly - Whether it's CIOs, CEOs, or CUOs, the imperative these days seems to be "diversify!"

  18 February 2025

  From investments in China to underwriting risks in Japan, APAC's insurers are spreading their risks - with one notable exception

• IAG lets alts and shares slide well below target range, to 22% of shareholders' funds

  13 February 2025

  Australasian non-lifer foresees no near-term return to previous target range of 40% to 50%

• APAC Weekly - Why LA's burning matters for APAC insurers

  14 January 2025

  Wildfires reveal connectedness of global insurance industry

• Comment: Disorderly to disastrous, Australia's energy transition lurches off-course (again)

  30 December 2024

  CIOs are now faced with more coal burning, while nuclear reactors get financed and built