Surrender payouts and reserve requirements are climbing at both life and non-life insurers, raising questions over whether households are trading long-term protection for short-term liquidity.
Jenny Wilhelm takes on the newly created role of MD for Singapore, which includes oversight on ASEAN and Sri Lanka, while William Slade succeeds her as Asia head of distribution.
Draft amendments would allow qualifying institutional investors to increase their shareholding in the same bank without seeking repeated regulatory approvals.
Asia recorded its lowest first-half insured catastrophe losses since 2017, but more than US$6bn in flood-driven economic losses in China underscored the region's significant protection gap.
