The regulator is pushing insurers to finance infrastructure as well as insure it, while a planned US$200m data centre insurance facility aims to anchor regional risk capacity in Singapore.
Marsh Re’s new Japan and Pacific heads, Andrew Hare and Justin Ward, say capital is reshaping the reinsurance conversation, from Japan’s solvency regime to growing interest in alternative capital in Australia...
Private debt is expected to remain the preferred alternative asset class for APAC insurers over the next 12 months, even as firms take a more selective approach to private-market allocations.
Gains on a relatively high allocation to Indian equities carried the year’s earnings, though the same holdings expose the reinsurer’s balance sheet to market risk.
Insurers in Taiwan and Japan are reworking products to ease capital and surrender pressures, while panellists warn that data-centre exposures and interacting emerging risks may outpace current models.
