Joanne Madrid is a reporter at (Re)in Asia, known for data features and analysis on how technology and climate are reshaping the region's insurance markets. Areas of specialty include insurtech and AI adoption, cyber and climate risk, and the premium and results data moving markets including India, Korea and Hong Kong.
Premiums are expected to grow across life and non-life segments as insurers navigate ageing demographics, inflation dynamics and intensifying industrial-policy trends.
A panel held at SIRC 2025 called for industry to continue to take a more proactive role in financing, design, and risk management of Asia’s expanding clean-energy projects.
China captured the largest share of global cargo premiums and the second-largest in hull, lifting Asia-Pacific’s combined marine premiums to nearly one-third of the global total.
