Life insurance

By Wade Matterson, Richard W. Holloway, Paul Sinnott, Michael Daly  |  05 May 2017

This report sets out perspectives and an analysis of the current and future state of the market for retirement income in Asia Pacific.

By Safder Jaffer  |  27 February 2017

The UAE insurance market returned to profitability and accelerated its overall growth in 2016.

By Paul Sinnott, Michael Daly, Richard W. Holloway, Wing F. Wong  |  16 December 2016

This report provides a summary of the mid-year 2016 embedded value results disclosed by Asian insurers.

09 December 2016

The combined power of cloud computing and advanced data analytics is being harnessed to help insurers hone their modelling skills to better manage risk, cut costs and improve efficiencies.

By Iwan Juwono, Chihong An, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Richard W. Holloway, Sojung Lee, Wing F. Wong  |  03 October 2016

This report compares and contrasts the various different approaches taken to embedded value reporting across Asian markets and insurers.

By Jeffrey A. Courchene, Mark R. Shapland  |  22 August 2016

This paper develops and examines a framework for reserve distribution testing and validation and demonstrates its use with real datasets within an enterprise risk management framework.

By Ernst Visser, Kurt Lambrechts, William C. Hines  |  28 July 2016

This note, an update of the January 2016 briefing note, discusses the board’s decisions regarding amendments in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 4 Insurance Contracts.

By Michael Daly, Sing Yee Yeoh  |  12 July 2016

This e-Alert compares the key changes proposed in the Risk Based Capital 2 (RBC 2) framework with the existing RBC framework and explains what these changes, if adopted, may mean for the Thai life insurance industry.

By Philip Jackson, Richard W. Holloway, Sanket Kawatkar, Shamit Gupta  |  29 January 2016

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has released a number of new regulations and draft (proposed) regulations after the passage of the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Act 2015.

By Ernst Visser, William C. Hines  |  28 January 2016

This briefing note discusses transition issues due to the different effective dates of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 9 Financial Instruments and the forthcoming new IFRS 4 Insurance Contracts. The brief also examines the proposed amendments to address these transition issues.

By Sam Morgan, Wilson Tian, Sharon Huang, Wing F. Wong  |  14 December 2015

This report focuses on life insurance and covers the China Risk Oriented Solvency System’s (C-ROSS) three-pillar structure, quantitative field testing results, international standards, and observations and potential issues around the new regime.

By Iwan Juwono, Chihong An, Michael Daly, Paul Sinnott, Richard W. Holloway, Sojung Lee, Wing F. Wong  |  03 September 2015

This report compares and contrasts embedded value (EV) reporting across Asian (excluding Japanese) markets and insurers.

14 December 2011

Family Takaful is increasing life insurance penetration rates both in nascent and mature Takaful markets.

28 June 2011

This summary includes a review of family Takaful industry growth in key regions and an overview of the regulatory landscape and business models.