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Aviation Insurance: A period of dynamic uncertainty
Despite the significant challenges, and elevated war risks for...
$2.8 billion Baltimore Bridge settlement:Impacts on marine (re)insurance market
The vast majority of the $2.8 billion will be absorbed by the...
Indian Health Survey: Significant increase in healthcare access across country
The median out-of-pocket medical expenditure per hospitalisation case in 2025 was ₹11,285, indicating that over half of the country's hospitalisations involve relatively low expenditure. The report stated that only a small number of high-cost cases push up the...
Health Insurance:A clear gap between awareness and action
A report by Niva Bupa Health Insurance highlights that health insurance ownership in India correlates more strongly with financial maturity than income levels alone. Policyholders demonstrate better financial discipline, including stronger portfolio diversification,...
AI Advatage:Leading companies focus on growth,not just productivity
``Insurance comes out as one of the stronger sectors in the survey, with solid groundwork in place for using AI. It has clear direction and strong controls around security and risk, however, it is not yet using AI as widely as the top performers. The biggest gap is...
Middle East Conflict: Consequences for Asian construction industry
Geopolitical risk is becoming structural rather than episodic. Construction organisations can no longer treat geopolitical disruption as a low probability event managed through generic forcemajeure clauses. Instead, it is increasingly influencing project feasibility,...
West Asia Conflict:Risks for global insurers could rise under protracted Iran conflict
Gulf insurers are heavily reinsured but global reinsurers have reduced exposure to the region. For diversified reinsurance groups, Fitch views the conflict at this stage as an earnings event driven by specialty lines. Rating implications from the Iran conflict will be...
West Asia conflict: India faces 2.5 million poverty risk, UN warns
On trade and supply chain disruptions, UNDP country-level analysis indicated significant impacts in 25 out of 36 countries through freight surcharges, war-risk insurance premia, route diversions, and delayed delivery of intermediate and consumer goods. The conflict...
Global Assignments:Blending family wellbeing,cultural adaptation and social integration
"When we think about mobility strategies, the focus should not only be on business outcomes but on how well we prepare people, and their loved ones, for change." says Ellen Hughes, Chief People Officer, AXA Health Business. New research from AXA Global Healthcare...
Strait of Hormuz:Trump risks confidence in U.S. role as guardian of global shipping
“The free flow of commerce through the strait is a larger principle at stake in this conflict.Failure to ensure freedom of navigation in Hormuz puts global freedom of navigation everywhere at risk,” said retired Vice Admiral John W. Miller, former commander of US...
Closing Indian Protection Gap: Gaining momentum
Protection thrives only when trust is strong and here, too, India is making quiet, steady strides. Claim settlement performance continues to rise, with the latest IRDAI data showing 96.82% of individual death claims settled within 30 days, while private insurers...
The April 1 Renewals: Changing Indian reinsurance market
While the momentum in India is toward expansion, the global environment remains highly volatile. This is no longer just a rate negotiation cycle; the market is balancing two forces that do not entirely align. What lies ahead is not a uniform market, but one that...