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.
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P&C insurers in three major North Asian markets of China, Japan, and Taiwan hold almost three times the amount of regulatory capital for asset risk than US carriers.