“There is a risk that some countries are doing exactly what we feared – which is every man for himself,” said Gayle Smith, former head of the US Agency for International Development and CEO of the One Campaign, a non-profit aimed at ending poverty and preventable disease.

Swiss Re reshuffles APAC management team

Jul 30, 2020

According to a Swiss Re announcement on Thursday, Sharon Ooi,currently managing director, head of P&C underwriting APAC, based in Singapore will relocate to Sydney to become head of Australia and New Zealand,

Sharon will replace Mark Senkevics who in turn will take charge of Ooi’s current role and lead Swiss Re’s APAC property and casualty (P&C) underwriting business from Sydney,

Coastal flooding could hit 20% of world GDP by 2100 – study

Jul 30, 2020

Flood events that have typically occurred once in 100 years “could occur as frequently as once in 10 years” for much of the world, said the authors of the report, including researchers at the universities of Amsterdam, Melbourne and the Global Climate Forum.

Cigna profit gets boost from lower costs as patients delay surgery

Jul 30, 2020

“COVID-19 costs will continue to rise just as the cases will continue to grow … However, the assumptions that the companies are building in around the non-COVID-19 related healthcare utilization probably accelerating in the back half of the year may be overly conservative,” Stephens analyst Scott Fidel said.

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