Coverage of the Singapore International Reinsurance Conference
Jayne Plunkett, Swiss Re's CEO for reinsurance in Asia, said understanding of business risk and the role of insurance varies among countries in Asia.
Paul Burgess, vice president, RMS, said developing laws in Asia and elsewhere could hamper insurers' abilities to share and use data that could be used to improve models and predict risk.
Milan Simic, executive vice president and managing director, international operations, AIR Worldwide, said Asia has already been home to a broad range of catastrophes.
Hermann Pohlchristoph, board member for Asia, Munich Re, said that about 40% of economic losses from recent U.S. catastrophes are covered by insurance, higher than the up to 25% share of losses covered in Asia catastrophes in recent years.
Tobias Farny, Munich Re's chief executive Asia Pacific covering greater China, Australia and New Zealand, said the Chinese insurance market remains dominated by motor insurance, with the next stages of growth set for personal and commercial coverage.
