Archive

  • Chinese non-life insurers develop products for ailing local business

    19 March 2020

    As the Covid-19 pandemic puts the world on path to recession, innovative property and casualty insurers in China are designing products to help SMEs and exporters alike. David Walker reports

  • Life and health insurance sales jump up to 80% in China

    19 March 2020

    Regulator acts to limit prices so all consumers can buy insurance

  • Coronavirus insurance bill in China tops $16m, trade body reveals

    05 March 2020

    Breakdown provided for life and non-life insurance costs so far from Covid-19

  • Ping An vows re-doubled efforts on coronavirus as profits jump 37%

    24 February 2020

    January health insurance sales leap 73%

  • Coronavirus hits Hong Kong insurance stocks for second day

    30 January 2020

    The virus has killed 170 people to date and infected nearly 8,000 others in China

  • Chinese and Hong Kong insurers act quickly to combat coronavirus

    27 January 2020

    China Life, Taiking Life and PICC amend policies and ease pressure on customers

  • COMMENT: What will 2020 bring for coal insurance?

    15 January 2020

    Peter Bosshard, coordinator of the Unfriend Coal campaign, comments on the growing withdrawal from coal underwriting

  • China outlines details to improve public health insurance system

    13 January 2020

    Moves could impact $63.4bn commercial health underwriting market

  • Hong Kong insurers eye Greater Bay Area opportunities

    09 January 2020

    Hong Kong fancies itself as the risk management hub of the Greater Bay Area, thanks to a young but dynamic regulator and its technological knowhow. Vincent Huck reports from the Asian Insurance Forum

  • Hong Kong exchange raises pressure on insurers over ESG

    06 January 2020

    Chinese underwriters face increased disclosure rules from July