Reih Angeles is Deputy News Editor at (Re)in Asia, steering the desk's breaking coverage of Asia Pacific insurance and reinsurance. Areas of specialty include insurer and life results, reinsurance and catastrophe losses, cyber, and regulatory change across India, Korea, China and Hong Kong.
Strong underwriting results and investment income are expected to keep returns resilient despite growing competition, casualty reserve uncertainty and elevated catastrophe risk.
Commercial lines and higher sums insured are supporting premium growth, while conservative asset allocation is helping insurers absorb equity-market volatility.
The DFS review also called for stronger performance monitoring, wider digital adoption and improved customer grievance handling across the state-owned insurers.
The agreement extends a seven-year collaboration combining underwriting capacity, climate analytics and data-driven risk modelling to support faster payouts for corporate and public-sector clients.
Samsung Life is also said to be looking at acquiring a 15% stake in Principal Financial Group, which would make it the US retirement provider's largest shareholder.
