With six of the ten largest life insurers globally, Asia offers reinsurers the chance to strike new asset intensive reinsurance deals before the pipeline in mature markets starts to dry-up.
John Lee also used his annual policy address to announce plans to conduct a sector wide insurance review that would look at capital requirements for infrastructure investments.
The combined impact of HK RBC and IFRS 17 has led to an improvement in: product mix, economic valuation, and corporate governance by insurers, says Chow Tai Fook CFO.
The use of a mixture of market and book values for Japan’s current accounting and solvency regulatory regimes could put short terms strain on insurers’ balance sheets.
