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GLP-1 offers modest mortality benefits for Hong Kong but raises new insurer risks: RGA

Medication-driven weight loss may reshape underwriting, lapse behaviour and claims long before it shifts long-term mortality assumptions.
Glp 1 offers modest mortality benefits for hong kong but raises new insurer risks rga rein asia

Joanne Madrid

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