Latest Asia Headlines
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AXIS Names Andreas Thiele Asia Director
Mar 12 2004 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited announced that it has appointed Andreas Thiele to the new position of Senior Vice President Director, Asia Pacific Region. The Company said it is “currently reviewing plans...
Tomas Urbanec New Head of ACE International Personal Lines
Feb 12 2004 // Gary Schmalzriedt, Chairman and CEO of ACE Overseas General (AOG), announced that Tomas Urbanec has been named as Executive Vice President, International Personal Lines. AOG is a financial reporting unit of ACE Limited,...
FINEOS Appoints Philip Small Advisory Director for Asia-Pacific Expansion
Dec 9 2003 // Dublin-based FINEOS, a leading provider of banking and insurance software, announced that it has appointed Philip Small as an Advisory Director to assist the company with its market growth within the Asia Pacific...
S&P PUBLISHES ENCOURAGING REPORT ON ASIA-PACIFIC REINSURANCE MARKET
Sep 22 2003 // Standard & Poor’s has published a report on the Asia-Pacific non-life reinsurance market, which indicates that it “is experiencing a period of profitability following a decade of weak results due to under...
S&P Publishes Encouraging Report on Asia-Pacific Reinsurance Market
Sep 2 2003 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published a report on the Asia-Pacific nonlife reinsurance market, which indicates that it “is experiencing a period of profitability following a decade of weak...
Insurance Hall of Fame to Induct AIG’s Edmund Tse, Grupo Nacional’s Clemente Cabello
Jul 8 2003 // Edmund Tse, Senior Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer of American International Group, and Clemente Cabello, CEO of Mexico’s Grupo Nacional have been named to the prestigious Insurance Hall of Fame by the...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
Minority and Women Agents Look to Tap Emerging Markets
Jun 23 2003 // Insurance is about numbers, and right now the numbers are depressing when it comes to minority and women agents in the business. In spite of the tremendous growth of minority populations in the United States and the...
SARS – 21st Century Epidemic’
May 19 2003 // Severe Acute Respiratory Syn-drome (SARS) has not, so far, threatened to be a repeat of the world’s last great pandemic—the “Spanish Flu” of 1918-19. Nor is it as lethal as malaria, which, according to...
SCOR Announces Successful April Renewals in Asia
May 6 2003 // France’s SCOR Group announced that it has successfully renewed 60 percent of its 2002 portfolio in Asia as of April 1, 2003. Japanese treaties represented 68 percent of business renewed and South Korean treaties 32...
World Struggles to Deal with Deadly SARS Virus
Apr 25 2003 // According to the World Health Organization more than 4000 cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have so far been reported, and more than 250 people have died from the infection. If anything those statistics are...
S&P’s Says SARS Could Damage Health of Emerging Asian Companies
Apr 15 2003 // Standard & Poor’s reports that a recent outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in greater China and southeast Asia is unlikely to have any immediate impact on its...
inreon Announces New Expansion in Asia
Apr 2 2003 // inreon, the online reinsurance platform founded by Munich Re and Swiss Re in 2000, announced a further expansion of its operations in Asia with both Korean Re and China International Re, two of the region’s leading...
Lloyd’s Awards U.S. Brokers; Accredits New Asian, Pair of London Brokers
Mar 24 2003 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Constance Curnow of Guy Carpenter and Gerald J. Sullivan of The Sullivan Group are the first brokers to win the Lloyd’s U.S. Broker Awards. The awards for U.S. Reinsurance...
Lloyd’s Awards U.S. Brokers; Accredits New Asian, 2 London Brokers
Mar 13 2003 // Lloyd’s of London announced that Constance Curnow of Guy Carpenter and Gerald J. Sullivan of The Sullivan Group are the first brokers to win the Lloyd’s U.S. Broker Awards. The awards for U.S. Reinsurance...
A.M. Best Expands Capabilities of its Hong Kong Regional Headquarters
Feb 28 2003 // A.M. Best Co. announced that it has recently integrated its Asia/Pacific insurance rating and information operations to serve Japan, Australia and New Zealand under A.M. Best Asia-Pacific Ltd. in Hong...
ING Names Jacques Kemp to Replace Phil Shirriff as Asia-Pacific CEO
Jan 21 2003 // The Netherlands ING Groep N.V. announced that it has appointed Jacques Kemp as chief executive for the Asia-Pacific region, succeeding Phil Shirriff who is retiring from the post at the end of March. “Kemp joined the...
AIR Releases New Models for the Asia-Pacific Region
Nov 26 2002 // AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR), one of the leading providers in catastrophe modeling and weather risk management, announced the release of new typhoon and earthquake models for the Asia-Pacific region. “The new...
XL Capital Integrates Le Mans Re into XL Re Ltd. Asia Pacific Operations
Oct 24 2002 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that it has completed the integration of the Singapore branches of its subsidiaries XL Re Ltd. and Le Mans Re into a single branch to be headed by Scott Ryrie, General Manager...
Chubb Opens Zone Office in Melbourne for Asia/Pacific Political Risk
Apr 26 2002 // The Chubb Group announced that it has opened a new office in Melbourne, Australia, “to further support the growing demand for political risk insurance in the Asia/Pacific region.” The office is the third...
