Archive

• Activists to scrutinise Samsung insurers' coal policy after reported divestment

  12 November 2020

  Samsung Life and Samsung Fire & Marine reportedly divest from coal and stop insuring new projects

• Re/insurers face wider scrutiny from climate activists

  18 June 2020

  Unfriend Coal becomes Insure Our Future to cover all fossil fuels

• The key decisions in Samsung Life's journey to IFRS 17 implementation

  24 April 2020

  Samsung Life's Jeong Hyeok Park and Deloitte Korea's Byoung Shin tell Cintia Cheong how the insurer is implementing the new accounting regime and what they make of the recent amendments to the standard

• South Korean life insurers join coronavirus fightback

  03 March 2020

  Samsung, MetLife and Shinhan aid efforts against the virus

• COMMENT: What will 2020 bring for coal insurance?

  15 January 2020

  Peter Bosshard, coordinator of the Unfriend Coal campaign, comments on the growing withdrawal from coal underwriting

• IFRS 17: what insurers dislike from the final consultation

  24 October 2019

  The treatment of reinsurance accounting under IFRS 17 appears to be the most consistent complaint from re/insurers, but deciding when the standard should take effect continues to generate disagreements among stakeholders. Cintia Cheong reports

• Canopius: looking east and west for growth

  25 July 2019

  This year's deals involving AmTrust and Samsung have given the 16-year-old Lloyd's operation a fresh impetus, as chairman Michael Watson explains to David Walker

• Samsung takes stake in Canopius

  03 May 2019

  Talanx and Darag also reveal M&A deals this week

• Inter Milan president set to finance Indonesian insurer

  03 January 2017

  Injection of IDR 2trn will bolster financial strength of Bumiputera

• "Insurance is overdue radical change", warns former Brit CEO

  18 October 2016

  Neil Eckert urges insurers to embrace technological change