Swiss Re expects Asia to outpace global insurance growth in 2026, though the regional outlook is splitting sharply between AI beneficiaries, energy-exposed markets and reform-led growth stories.
Fitch has identified correlated aggregation risk as the key near-term concern for specialty insurers, even as the agency maintains a broadly contained ratings outlook.
With Asia Pacific expected to gain nearly US$800bn in data centre investment by 2030, water stress and fire risk quality have emerged as interconnected vulnerabilities.