Economic crises such as those that recently hit Argentina and Venezuela inflict damage on the insurance industry in the form of declining premiums and profits and even bankruptcies. As Swiss Re's new sigma study 'Emerging insurance markets: lessons learned from financial crises' shows, insurers...

Insurers, banks and other financial intermediaries are changing in response to a variety of social and economic forces. Financial deregulation has made it easier for intermediaries to cross industry and national boundaries. Technological progress has reduced costs while stimulating innovation....

In den letzten zwei Jahren haben sich Asiens Versicherungsmärkte von ihrem beispiellosen Einbruch infolge der asiatischen Finanzkrise erholt. Trotz schwachem Weltwirtschaftswachstum ist davon auszugehen, dass Asien nur vorübergehend einen Rückschlag erlitten hat. (...)