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The coastal Indian state of Kerala suffered an estimated economic loss of $4.5bn due to the floods that affected the state in August this year...
Despite alternative capital driving a structural change in the reinsurance sector, the market continues to be heavily influenced by the traditional...
Disaster risk finance through a PPP (public-private partnership) model is the need of the hour as such partnerships would help nations recover quickly from the...
Singapore is forming the world’s first commercial cyber risk insurance pool involving both traditional and alternative capital, with up to $1bn in capacity already being committed...
Taiping Re's capital and surplus have more than doubled over the past five years, mainly driven by a series of capital injections from China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited (CTIH) and profit retention...
Chinese insurance companies will see another boom in bond issues this year in response to strict regulations in the domestic financial market, Beijing-based United Ratings said in a report...
An expert panel of reinsurers, investors and other industry specialists predicted that insurance linked securities (ILS) are likely to grow in both scale and maturity in the year ahead...
The reinsurance sector's return on capital is expected to increase to around 6%-8% by year-end 2018, says S&P Global Ratings. However, this remains close to reinsurers' cost of capital...
Singapore has pledged to fully fund the upfront costs of local CAT bond issuances with effect from 1 January 2018 through a newly-formed insurance-linked securities (ILS) grant scheme...
Singapore has pledged to fully fund the upfront cost of local CAT bond issuances from 1 January 2018 through a newly-formed ILS grant scheme, as the city-state...
