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Reinsurers and governments should join forces to develop better disaster risk management for future natural disasters, as a meeting of the economic think-tank the Geneva Association has declared. Intelligent Insurer reports. 1 September 2013
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A growing percentage of the population are increasingly risk aware and concerned about how threats such as climate change, natural disasters and even crime, disease and hunger could affect them directly in the future. They also believe governments should be doing more to deal with these risks 28 August 2013
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Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has appointed Fred Kleiterp as head of Asia Pacific. He will move from his current position as head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in Zurich and will assume the new role based in Singapore. 28 August 2013
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Allied World Assurance Company Holdings’ Asia-Pacific platform has launched a new product designed to provide a new level of protection for company directors and officers in the Asia-Pacific region. 21 August 2013
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Swiss Re has helped structure an innovative flood index insurance product that will cover almost 2,000 poor families living in the Char areas of the Sirajganj district of Bangladesh. 21 August 2013
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According to preliminary estimates by sigma, the research arm of Swiss Re, insured losses globally from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters amounted to some $20 billion in the first half of 2013 with flooding being the biggest contributor to these losses. 21 August 2013
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Specialist insurer, Markel has appointed Matthew Cannock as managing director of Markel International in Singapore. Cannock will replace Peter Phillips, who has led Markel’s operations in Asia Pacific since 2007. 19 August 2013
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The renewable energy industry could be spending three times as much on insurance by 2020 to mitigate risks to projects as investors increasingly understand the value different insurance products can bring to the sector, offering an opportunity for insurers. 14 August 2013
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Arthur J Gallagher (AJG) (Singapore) has appointed Maxwell Sung as managing director reinsurance as part of strategic plans to increase its reinsurance portfolio in Asia. 12 August 2013
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The record rainfall experienced in the greater Toronto metropolitan region, resulted in Canada’s second billion-dollar natural disaster event of 2013 – the first being an extensive flood event that inundated the province of Alberta in June, according to a report by Aon Benfield’s catastrophe modelling centre, Impact Forecasting. 8 August 2013
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