All the headlines from our Asia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 3 2004 // North American insurers currently are pursuing global expansion at a pace rivaling that of European insurers’ entry into U.S. markets in the early 1990s.According to TowerGroup, more favorable economics, key...
Jun 22 2004 // AIG United Guaranty, whose affiliate companies provide mortgage guaranty insurance, announced plans to expand both its European and Asian operations as part of its “international growth program.” It has...
Apr 21 2004 // France’s SCOR Group announced the official licensing of its Korean operations this month, and indicated it was very pleased with the rates of renewal of its Korean business.The company noted that “the treaty...
Mar 19 2004 // Swiss Re today has been granted permission by the Taiwan Ministry of Finance to begin the licensing process for a branch office in Taiwan.The Swiss Re branch will be located in Taipei and is expected to be fully...
Mar 12 2004 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has appointed Andreas Thiele to the new position of Senior Vice President Director, Asia Pacific Region. The Company said it is “currently reviewing plans...
Feb 12 2004 // Gary Schmalzriedt, Chairman and CEO of ACE Overseas General (AOG), announced that Tomas Urbanec has been named as Executive Vice President, International Personal Lines. AOG is a financial reporting unit of ACE Limited,...
Dec 9 2003 // Dublin-based FINEOS, a leading provider of banking and insurance software, announced that it has appointed Philip Small as an Advisory Director to assist the company with its market growth within the Asia Pacific...
Sep 22 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has published a report on the Asia-Pacific non-life reinsurance market, which indicates that it “is experiencing a period of profitability following a decade of weak results due to under...
Sep 2 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published a report on the Asia-Pacific nonlife reinsurance market, which indicates that it “is experiencing a period of profitability following a decade of weak...
Jul 8 2003 // Edmund Tse, Senior Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer of American International Group, and Clemente Cabello, CEO of Mexico’s Grupo Nacional have been named to the prestigious Insurance Hall of Fame by the...
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
May 19 2003 // Severe Acute Respiratory Syn-drome (SARS) has not, so far, threatened to be a repeat of the world’s last great pandemic—the “Spanish Flu” of 1918-19. Nor is it as lethal as malaria, which, according to...
May 6 2003 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it has successfully renewed 60 percent of its 2002 portfolio in Asia as of April 1, 2003. Japanese treaties represented 68 percent of business renewed and South Korean treaties 32...
Apr 25 2003 // According to the World Health Organization more than 4000 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have so far been reported, and more than 250 people have died from the infection. If anything those statistics are...
Apr 15 2003 // Standard & Poor’s reports that a recent outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in greater China and southeast Asia is unlikely to have any immediate impact on its...
Apr 2 2003 // inreon, the online reinsurance platform founded by Munich Re and Swiss Re in 2000, announced a further expansion of its operations in Asia with both Korean Re and China International Re, two of the region’s leading...
Mar 24 2003 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Constance Curnow of Guy Carpenter and Gerald J. Sullivan of The Sullivan Group are the first brokers to win the Lloyd’s U.S. Broker Awards. The awards for U.S. Reinsurance...
Mar 13 2003 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Constance Curnow of Guy Carpenter and Gerald J. Sullivan of The Sullivan Group are the first brokers to win the Lloyd’s U.S. Broker Awards. The awards for U.S. Reinsurance...
Feb 28 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has recently integrated its Asia/Pacific insurance rating and information operations to serve Japan, Australia and New Zealand under A.M. Best Asia-Pacific Ltd. in Hong...