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  • Breakeven is best Asia's reinsurers can hope for underwriting in 2024, predicts S&P Global

    13 March 2024

    Rating agency predicts more regular reviews of underwriting assumptions in future

  • Climate change won't deter reinsurers' interest in China, says S&P Global

    21 June 2023

    Non-life ceding ratio has risen from 8.5% to 10% since 2019

  • Asia's insurers scarred but recovering from Covid-19

    30 March 2023

    S&P says some CORs rocketed to 200% during pandemic

  • China's industry practitioners praise CBIRC as dissolution flagged

    10 March 2023

    Regulator's duties to be subsumed into larger body

  • Apac re/insurers welcome the alternative

    29 December 2021

    Regulators in Asia have been busy creating frameworks for insurers to transfer risk to capital markets investors. Re/insurers are keen to tap this alternative source of capital, if the structures are right. David Walker reports

  • Apac reinsurers push for more underwriting risk in new lines

    02 December 2021

    Next April's renewals could be "tough" for Japan's reinsurers, S&P Global Ratings says

  • Apac reinsurers pricing risk on scenarios with limited history

    05 November 2021

    S&P Global says credit outlook is stable third loss-making year

  • China Re issues typhoon-linked ILS in Hong Kong

    01 October 2021

    Regulators are pushing for more from mainland re/insurers

  • CBIRC urges more cat bond issuance in Hong Kong

    30 September 2021

    Mainland insurers ceding little catastrophe risk as claims costs rise

  • China renews equivalence deal for Hong Kong reinsurers

    05 August 2021

    Six firms benefit from one-year extension to "preferential treatment"